{"id":339824,"date":"2025-12-09T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/339824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:37:07","slug":"magics-custom-nba-cup-court-damaged-in-storage-team-reverts-to-regular-court-for-matchup-with-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/339824\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic&#8217;s custom NBA Cup court damaged in storage. Team reverts to regular court for matchup with Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Magic were not able to use their custom home court for Tuesday night\u2019s NBA Cup quarterfinal matchup with Miami. The NBA uses colorful courts to help&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ORLANDO, Fla.(AP) \u2014 The Orlando Magic were not able to use their custom home court for Tuesday night\u2019s NBA Cup quarterfinal matchup with Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA uses colorful courts to help its in-season tournament games stand out. But Orlando&#8217;s floor was damaged in storage, according to the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic court, designed with the Cup trophy in the middle, has been used twice, more recently on Nov. 14 for a group-stage game against the Brooklyn Nets. The Magic had their regular floor for the game against the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat and Magic, both in the knockout round for the first time, are competing for a spot in the semifinals in Las Vegas on Saturday against either New York or Toronto. The championship game will be played on Dec. 13 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic were not able to use their custom home court for Tuesday night\u2019s NBA Cup quarterfinal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-339824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}