{"id":493036,"date":"2026-04-16T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493036"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:50:58","slug":"ben-taylor-exits-injured-during-warriors-clippers-game-replaced-by-alternate-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ben-taylor-exits-injured-during-warriors-clippers-game-replaced-by-alternate-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Taylor exits injured during Warriors-Clippers game, replaced by alternate referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"1996\">An unusual moment took place during the play-in game between the <strong data-start=\"1738\" data-end=\"1763\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1768\" data-end=\"1792\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/strong>, as referee <strong data-start=\"1805\" data-end=\"1819\">Ben Taylor<\/strong> was forced to leave the court because of an injury. The NBA official exited the floor with 8:51 left in the third quarter, walking stiffly toward the tunnel at <strong data-start=\"1980\" data-end=\"1995\">Intuit Dome<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1998\" data-end=\"2190\">After a short delay, Taylor was replaced by alternate referee <strong data-start=\"2060\" data-end=\"2075\">Sean Corbin<\/strong>. The NBA assigns a fourth alternate official to every postseason game precisely to deal with situations like this.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2192\" data-end=\"2413\">Taylor is in his 11th NBA season as a referee, while Corbin is in his 31st year on the job. At the time of the change, the <strong data-start=\"2315\" data-end=\"2339\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/strong> were leading the <strong data-start=\"2357\" data-end=\"2382\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong> 61-53 in the elimination game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Referee Ben Taylor pulled a hammy and had to leave the game&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They brought out a ref from the stands to replace him \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f8wYWZnLjD\">pic.twitter.com\/f8wYWZnLjD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrickCenter_\/status\/2044623844808503504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 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 NBA official left the floor in the third quarter of the play-in game between the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":493035,"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-493036","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\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-16-alle-07.48.52.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493036","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=493036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493036"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493036"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493036"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}