{"id":571805,"date":"2026-01-31T00:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:19:20","slug":"spurs-saturday-tipoff-in-charlotte-shifted-earlier-to-avoid-winter-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571805\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs\u2019 Saturday tipoff in Charlotte shifted earlier to avoid winter weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 As another winter storm threatens to blanket the southeast with snow this weekend, the NBA announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Spurs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Spurs\/\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>\u2019 Saturday match against the Hornets will shift earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Spurs will now face Charlotte at 11 a.m. Central inside the Spectrum Center. The game will stream live on Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Temperatures are expected to be below freezing Friday night in the Charlotte area. By Saturday morning, temperatures will be in the mid-20\u2019s with snow expected throughout the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio was originally scheduled to face the Hornets at 2 p.m. Saturday, but pushed earlier in advance of the worsening conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Spurs flew out to Charlotte late Friday morning and had practice shortly after arriving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Saturday\u2019s matchup will be the first this season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio is coming off a 111-99 win over the Rockets in Houston on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Spurs are currently second in the Western Conference standings with a 32-15 record. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Hornets have won five in a row entering Saturday\u2019s game with the Spurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Charlotte is currently 21-28 and two-and-a-half games behind the Chicago Bulls for the tenth spot in the Eastern Conference standings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Read more Spurs coverage on KSAT:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 As another winter storm threatens to blanket the southeast with snow this weekend, the NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6537,6,969,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-571805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-ksat-sports-now","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115986849239945969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571805","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=571805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}