{"id":359589,"date":"2025-12-20T02:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:54:09","slug":"nba-official-tre-maddox-leaves-bulls-cavaliers-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359589\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA official Tre Maddox leaves Bulls-Cavaliers with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; NBA official Tre Maddox suffered a leg injury at the end of the first quarter of Friday night&#8217;s game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maddox was running off the court during a break in the action when he fell and appeared to roll his ankle. He was taken back to the officials locker room and couldn&#8217;t put any weight on his leg.<\/p>\n<p>Maddox, 58, is in his 15th season as an NBA official. He officiated the 2025 All-Star Game in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>It was down to a two-person crew the rest of the game with Ray Acosta and Phenizee Ransom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND &#8212; NBA official Tre Maddox suffered a leg injury at the end of the first quarter of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-359589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359589","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=359589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}