{"id":435014,"date":"2026-01-26T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435014\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:49:08","slug":"blue-jackets-game-against-kings-is-postponed-because-of-major-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435014\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets\u2019 game against Kings is postponed because of major winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier Sunday, a game between the Denver Nuggets and Memphis Grizzlies was postponed about three hours before tipoff.<\/p>\n

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Reschedule dates were not announced.<\/p>\n

The NBA also changed the start times for two games on Monday: Philadelphia 76ers at Charlotte Hornets tipped off at 3 p.m. ET instead of 7 p.m., and the Indiana Pacers at Atlanta Hawks at 1:30 p.m. instead of 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Memphis area was experiencing a mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain that began falling early Saturday morning and continued Sunday morning. South and east of Memphis, freezing rain collected on power lines and trees, causing widespread outages and blocked roads. Authorities had recommended people stay off the streets as the wintry mix and frigid temperatures caused a refreeze.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets said they planned to fly out at some point Sunday, depending on the conditions at Memphis International Airport. They are scheduled to play at home Tuesday against the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies are scheduled to be in Houston for a game against the Rockets on Monday.<\/p>\n

An NBA G League game scheduled for Monday between the Memphis Hustle and Stockton Kings in Southaven, Mississippi, was postponed and rescheduled for Feb. 19.<\/p>\n

At least two college women\u2019s basketball games were postponed: No. 17<\/a> Tennessee\u2019s visit to No. 18 Mississippi on Monday and Tulane\u2019s visit to Memphis on Tuesday. Reschedule dates were not announced.<\/p>\n

In men\u2019s basketball, a game featuring Tennessee at No. 21<\/a> Georgia was pushed back a day from Tuesday to Wednesday. Purdue Fort Wayne and IU Indianapolis, and Southern Illinois and Evansville had Sunday games postponed without make-up dates announced.<\/p>\n

The schedule changes come after dozens of games were moved around last week in anticipation of the storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Separately, on Saturday, the NBA postponed a game between the Warriors and Timberwolves<\/a> to \u201cprioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community\u201d after the fatal shooting of a man<\/a> by a federal officer in a district located less than two miles away from where the Timberwolves play.<\/p>\n

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AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier Sunday, a game between the Denver Nuggets and Memphis Grizzlies was postponed about three hours before tipoff.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-435014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435014","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=435014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}