{"id":394721,"date":"2026-04-16T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:42:09","slug":"referee-ben-taylor-injured-replaced-by-alternate-during-sofi-play-in-tournament-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394721\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee Ben Taylor injured, replaced by alternate during SoFi Play-In Tournament game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2163525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2163525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_ref_ben_taylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2163525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referee Ben Taylor left Wednesday\u2019s game between the Clippers and Warriors early due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Referee Ben Taylor left the play-in tournament game between the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers with an injury on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor walked stiffly off the court and went up the tunnel behind one basket at Intuit Dome with 8:51 left in the third quarter. He was replaced by alternate referee Sean Corbin after a brief delay.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA sends a fourth alternate referee to every postseason game for exactly such a situation.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is an 11-year NBA veteran referee, while Corbin is in his 31st season on the job.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth-seeded Clippers led the 10th-seeded Warriors 61-53 at halftime of the elimination game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referee Ben Taylor left Wednesday\u2019s game between the Clippers and Warriors early due to injury. INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,187585,144769,105],"class_list":["post-394721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-referee-injured","tag-replaced","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}