{"id":558807,"date":"2026-01-25T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/558807\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:11:15","slug":"nba-postpones-minnesota-timberwolves-game-after-ice-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/558807\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Postpones Minnesota Timberwolves Game After ICE Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nba\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nba_1\" data-tag=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors was postponed on Saturday afternoon following another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-enforcement-minnesota-4d1499fc5962ab880f3816259e04bdbf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fatal shooting<\/a>\u00a0by a federal officer in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe game was rescheduled for Sunday afternoon. The Timberwolves and Warriors are also scheduled to play on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe league announced the decision was made to \u201cprioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community\u201d after\u00a037-year-old Alex Pretti\u00a0was killed in a confrontation with officers on a street in a commercial district less than two miles from Target Center, the downtown arena where the Timberwolves play. With the crowd of protesters growing around the shooting site on Saturday, the Minnesota National Guard was assisting local police to try to keep the peace.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/don-lemon-arrest-minnesota-church-protest-next-jimmy-kimmel-1236483079\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DonLemonGettyImages-1485580170-1.jpg\" alt=\"Don Lemon\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/watch-college-gymnastics-ncaa-womens-2026-season-online-1236481964\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-1381715298.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Chiles of the UCLA Bruins reacts after competing on vault during a meet against the California Golden Bears at UCLA Pauley Pavilion on March 06, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Minnesota Twins were holding their annual winter fan festival at Target Field, across the street from Target Center, and ended the event an hour early for the \u201cexpedited departure\u201d of all guests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThousands of people marched through downtown\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/minnesota-ice-immigration-protest-unions-faith-leaders-edc6c4884f8cc26be9ad34a28d82a7a5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Friday<\/a>\u00a0with the air temperature well below zero in protest of the presence and tactics of the federal force that swelled to about 3,000 officers in the Twin Cities area this month as part of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTwo weeks ago, 37-year-old\u00a0Renee Good\u00a0was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-crackdown-woman-shot-5158ce0838305b491c95db97b970cd03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fatally shot<\/a>\u00a0in her car as she drove away from a group of officers following a confrontation. The Timberwolves held a\u00a0moment of silence\u00a0for Good before their game the following night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors was postponed on Saturday afternoon following another\u00a0fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4431,6,66],"class_list":["post-558807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-ice","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115952844672931174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}