111-106 loss to the Charlotte Hornets\u00a0on Saturday<\/a>, dramatically altering the team\u2019s travel plans and raising questions about their Sunday afternoon game against the Orlando Magic at the Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
The Spurs had hoped to fly home immediately after the game, but the wintry conditions shut down\u00a0Charlotte Douglas International Airport for the night. Spurs play-by-play broadcaster Jacob Tobey provided a video on X, formerly known as Twitter, showing the heavy snow the airport and said the team was waiting on the tarmac for nearly two hours.<\/p>\n
The storm, described as\u00a0the most significant snowfall Charlotte has seen in nearly a decade, has brought heavy snow and dangerous travel conditions to the area. Snow accumulations at the airport are expected to reach over\u00a06 inches\u00a0by Saturday evening, with totals possibly climbing as high as 9 inches before the storm moves out. A winter storm warning remained in effect through early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
The news puts the Spurs\u2019 schedule into further uncertainty. The team is slated to host the\u00a0Orlando Magic at the Frost Bank Center on Sunday afternoon, but at the time of this report neither the Spurs nor the NBA have issued official word on whether the game will proceed as scheduled.<\/p>\n
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Charlotte\u2019s winter conditions not only hampered the Spurs\u2019 travel but also impacted the game itself. The game was moved up by\u00a0three hours\u00a0from its originally scheduled 3 p.m. ET afternoon start to noon, in an effort by the NBA to get both teams out of dangerous travel conditions before weather worsened.<\/p>\n
While the Hornets capitalized on their home-court advantage and rallied for the win on the basketball court, for the Spurs the focus quickly shifted from basketball to logistics as winter weather proved once again that it can upend even the plans for professional athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: The NBA has announced that the Spurs game in San Antonio vs. the Orlando Magic has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,684,473,65928,48,6,47,76,3883,969,534,203,2594,77799,75696],"class_list":["post-574694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-jacob-tobey","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-san-antonio","tag-spurs","tag-the-nba","tag-the-spurs","tag-travel-conditions","tag-winter-storm"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115994320935984350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574694","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=574694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}