{"id":315318,"date":"2025-11-28T23:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315318\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:44:15","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-court-deemed-unplayable-oily-and-slippery-surface-luka-doncic-complaint-nba-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315318\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers court deemed unplayable, oily and slippery surface, Luka Doncic complaint, NBA Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers won\u2019t use their special NBA Cup court for their final group stage game of the in-season tournament on Saturday (AEDT) after players voiced concerns it was too slippery.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers played on the yellow court in a victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday, but Lakers superstar Luka Doncic said after the contest that he thought the floor was dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Watch NBA with ESPN on Kayo Sports | Stream an average 9 LIVE Regular Season games per week plus the best of the NBA Playoffs.| New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-basketball-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just slippery. It\u2019s dangerous&#8230; I slipped a lot of times, and you could see a lot of players slipped,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Teammate Rui Hachimura said Saturday that the court \u201cfelt weird.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was bad &#8230; I felt it right away \u2026 it just felt weird. Just like oily, slippery,\u201d Hachimura said. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764373455_871_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was on the floor, literally. Every second &#8230; We\u2019re going to do the normal court (Saturday), so it will be fine.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The special, brightly painted courts are used for NBA Cup games in a bid to help distinguish the tournament games from other regular-season contests.<\/p>\n<p>A team spokesman told the Los Angeles Times that the court vendor had determined the surface was \u201cunplayable\u201d but it will be repaired and available for the NBA Cup quarter-finals if needed.<\/p>\n<p>At 3-0 in group play the Lakers have clinched a place in the quarter-finals, and they can secure home-court advantage in the quarters with a victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers won\u2019t use their special NBA Cup court for their final group stage game of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[2095,64,63,178206,7235,800,3738,178207,165024,7236,7232,10213,5387,590,2041,2067,53897,178210,85,178208,178209,2614,3585],"class_list":["post-315318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-court-vendor","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-espn-inc","tag-fox-sports","tag-home-court-advantage","tag-in-season-tournament","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-minnesota","tag-nba","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-rui-hachimura","tag-slippery-surface","tag-sports","tag-team-spokesman","tag-tournament-games","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-winning-streak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}