{"id":477968,"date":"2026-01-09T08:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477968"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:03:47","slug":"heat-bulls-postponed-in-chicago-due-to-condensation-on-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/heat-bulls-postponed-in-chicago-due-to-condensation-on-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-Bulls postponed in Chicago due to condensation on the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"2019\">Thursday\u2019s scheduled game between the <strong data-start=\"1767\" data-end=\"1781\">Miami Heat<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1786\" data-end=\"1803\">Chicago Bulls<\/strong> was postponed after <strong data-start=\"1824\" data-end=\"1853\">condensation on the court<\/strong> left the floor in unplayable condition. The United Center hosted a Blackhawks hockey game on Wednesday, and an unseasonably warm, rainy day contributed to the issue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2021\" data-end=\"2315\">Players from both teams went through their usual pregame routines but did not consider the surface safe. After more than 90 minutes of unsuccessful fixes \u2014 including turning up the arena air conditioning and repeatedly drying the floor with mops and large towels \u2014 the situation didn\u2019t improve.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2317\" data-end=\"2609\">The postponement was decided by the NBA league office, game officials and both coaching staffs. Heat coach <strong data-start=\"2424\" data-end=\"2442\">Erik Spoelstra<\/strong> said players on both sides were complaining and that it became clear \u201cpretty much immediately\u201d the court wasn\u2019t playable. No makeup date was announced Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Miami Heat vs Chicago Bulls highlights are going CRAZY\ud83e\udd76\ud83e\udd76\ud83e\udd76 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cgkwvT1gMV\">pic.twitter.com\/cgkwvT1gMV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KingCharge (@KingCharge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingCharge\/status\/2009457214113894482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tonight&#8217;s Heat-Bulls game in Chicago has been postponed due to condensation on the court <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x1PiQeSrwo\">pic.twitter.com\/x1PiQeSrwo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/2009457960121192697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Truly bizarre scenes at United Center tonight. The Bulls &#8211; Heat game has been delayed for more than a hour as crews work to clean the court from condensation caused by the torrential downpours outside, warmer temps and high humidity levels. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WGNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WGNNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iVi5nuZdzs\">pic.twitter.com\/iVi5nuZdzs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Frydman (@Josh_Frydman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Josh_Frydman\/status\/2009448373452251281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat\u2013Chicago Bulls game was postponed because condensation made the United Center floor unsafe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":477967,"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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-09-alle-07.57.40.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477968","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=477968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477968"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477968"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477968"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}