{"id":431057,"date":"2026-01-24T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:53:08","slug":"nba-postpones-timberwolves-warriors-game-in-wake-of-fatal-shooting-by-federal-agents-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431057\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA postpones Timberwolves-Warriors game in wake of fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors has been postponed after a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/articles\/governor-person-shot-killed-federal-174037262.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:37-year-old man was shot and killed by federal agents;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">37-year-old man was shot and killed by federal agents<\/a> in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was made to prioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community,\u201d <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2015149387475739124\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the league said in a statement;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the league said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The NBA announced that the game has been rescheduled for 5:30 p.m. ET Sunday at Target Center.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified by his parents as Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse.<\/p>\n<p>Including the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/article\/what-we-know-about-renee-nicole-good-the-woman-who-was-killed-by-an-ice-officer-in-minneapolis-211629942.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jan. 7 shooting death of Renee Good;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 7 shooting death of Renee Good<\/a>, it was the second fatal shooting and third in 17 days involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors has been postponed after a 37-year-old man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,8217,83602,40953,14102,459,163562,82],"class_list":["post-431057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-immigration-crackdown","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-nba-communications","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}