{"id":471929,"date":"2025-11-28T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=471929"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:05:17","slug":"nba-cup-lakers-special-court-ruled-unplayable-game-moved-to-standard-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-cup-lakers-special-court-ruled-unplayable-game-moved-to-standard-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cup: Lakers\u2019 special court ruled \u201cunplayable,\u201d game moved to standard floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1260\" data-end=\"1519\">According to <strong data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1283\">@mcten<\/strong> and <em data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1294\">ESPN<\/em>, NBA officials have deemed the <strong data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1364\">Lakers\u2019 NBA Cup court \u201cunplayable\u201d<\/strong> due to <strong data-start=\"1372\" data-end=\"1395\">slippery conditions<\/strong>, sending it back for repairs. Tonight\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1436\" data-end=\"1456\">Lakers\u2013Mavericks<\/strong> game will be played on a <strong data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"1508\">regular hardwood court<\/strong> instead.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1521\" data-end=\"1759\">The decision followed multiple player complaints, including from <strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1601\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/strong>, who told <em data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1618\">ESPN<\/em>: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1621\" data-end=\"1691\">It\u2019s slippery. It\u2019s dangerous. I slipped a lot, and so did others.<\/strong>\u201d Several Lakers echoed the same concerns after Tuesday\u2019s session.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1918\">Per <strong data-start=\"1765\" data-end=\"1779\">Marc Stein<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1784\" data-end=\"1797\">Dan Woike<\/strong>, the court will undergo maintenance and could be reinstated for the <strong data-start=\"1866\" data-end=\"1891\">NBA Cup quarterfinals<\/strong> if Los Angeles advances.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1920\" data-end=\"1988\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1920\" data-end=\"1965\">Source: @mcten, ESPN, Marc Stein, Dan Woike<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league pulled the surface after players called it slippery and unsafe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-471929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471929"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=471929"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=471929"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=471929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}