{"id":111281,"date":"2026-01-09T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111281\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:02:08","slug":"miami-heat-vs-chicago-bulls-delayed-due-to-court-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111281\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat vs. Chicago Bulls delayed due to court issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of Thursday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2914313\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Heat-Chicago Bulls game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Heat-Chicago Bulls game<\/a> has been delayed for over an hour due to a court issue.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the delay at Chicago&#8217;s United Center: a slick court due to a buildup of condensation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>No word on a start time has emerged, but <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KCJHoop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CHSN&#039;s K.C. Johnson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CHSN&#8217;s K.C. Johnson<\/a> reported at 8:49 p.m. ET that players had returned to the locker room. At 9:46 p.m. ET, Johnson reported that players had come back out to &#8220;mingle\/talk and now are headed back to locker room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No official update on the game&#8217;s status has yet been made.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated with new information.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/01\/08\/heat-bulls-game-court-issue\/88093313007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Heat-Bulls game delayed due to court issue;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Heat-Bulls game delayed due to court issue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of Thursday night&#8217;s Miami Heat-Chicago Bulls game has been delayed for over an hour due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31214,2063,56720,56718,56719,123,125,2490,124],"class_list":["post-111281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-bulls","tag-chicago","tag-chsn","tag-court-issue","tag-k-c-johnson","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}