As virtually half the nation offers with Winter Storm Fern, the affect additionally impacted the sports activities world. The NBA introduced two Sunday video games have been postponed: Denver Nuggets and Memphis Grizzlies and the Dallas Mavericks on the Milwaukee Bucks.
The Grizzlies sport was initially scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, however was rescheduled resulting from inclement climate in Memphis. The Memphis Police Division requested residents to remain off the roads except completely crucial, as the town offers with a mixture of snow, sleet and ice. The most recent updates have Memphis seeing as much as three inches of snow, in addition to under freezing temperatures throughout the town. A make-up date for the sport has but to be introduced.
The Mavericks by no means even made it Milwaukee for his or her Sunday evening sport in opposition to the Bucks. Dallas was caught on the tarmac on the airport for over 4 hours resulting from snow and ice within the Dallas-Fort Price space. The Mavericks had been scheduled to go away late Saturday evening after a 116-110 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Nevertheless, the workforce’s flight had been rescheduled to Sunday due to the climate.
The make-up sport between Dallas and Milwaukee might reportedly happen both Monday, which might trigger a back-to-back for Milwaukee, or after the All-Star break on Feb. 19, per the Dallas Morning Information. The choice of when the sport takes place shall be depending on if the Mavericks can get to Milwaukee afterward Sunday or Monday morning.
Although it wasn’t a postponement, the Charlotte Hornets’ sport in opposition to the Washington Wizards on Saturday was moved up six hours due to inclement climate. The identical has occurred throughout school basketball.
The beginning time of three ACC males’s basketball video games had been moved up because of the climate on Saturday, together with Wake Forest at Duke, North Carolina at Virginia, and Virginia Tech at Louisville. Xavier additionally moved up its begin time in opposition to St. John’s. No. 21 Georgia has additionally moved its sport in opposition to Tennessee from Tuesday to Wednesday.
On the ladies’s basketball aspect, No. 1 ranked UConn moved its matchup in opposition to Seton Corridor from Sunday to Saturday. No. 14 Baylor’s residence sport in opposition to Houston was pushed from Sunday to Tuesday. That is only a couple from an ever-growing checklist of video games being pushed up, or altogether rescheduled resulting from this storm.
