NBA on TNT forced into last-minute major broadcasting change after Bucks travel chaos with Lakers also affected
Due to travel issues, the NBA had to make a last-minute schedule alteration on Thursday.
The Milwaukee Bucks encountered difficulties returning from New Orleans, Louisiana.
This week, a snowstorm hit the city, making travel difficult due to the ice conditions.
Additionally, Milwaukee saw difficulties on their way home for Thursday’s game against the Miami Heat.
The match was scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. ET and was the first of TNT’s national TV doubleheader.
However, hours before the game, the NBA announced that it would now start at 8.30 p.m. ET instead.
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And the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James were impacted by it.
At 10 p.m. ET, TNT was scheduled to broadcast their game versus the Boston Celtics.
Rather, it started on TruTV at 10.15 p.m. ET, which is a little later.
Milwaukee was unaffected by Thursday’s travel turmoil.
They defeated the Miami Heat 125-96, dominating them.
The squad left for New Orleans on Monday, but their Wednesday game against the Pelicans was called off.
With a foot of snowfall on New Orleans, Giannis Antetokounmpo and his teammates were unable to even practice.
Bobby Portis remarked, “It felt like it was COVID all over again,”
“We were just in the room just chilling.”
In Thursday night’s victory, Damian Lillard finished with 29 points and 11 assists.
His words, “We not having excuses,”
As the team’s leader, it is your responsibility to inform the team right away that we are not doing that.
“There won’t be any excuses tonight; I don’t care about the flight.
As we have been doing, you must go out here and jump on them.
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“And no excuses if something goes wrong, we can’t be looking at it as a crutch or nothing like that.”
In the second game of the TNT doubleheader, the Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics 117-96.