An individual stops to take an image at Jackson Sq. as snow falls within the French Quarter in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. The NBA postpoined the Milwaukee Bucks and the New Orleans Pelicans sport due to the snow storm. (AP Photograph/Gerald Herbert)
NEW ORLEANS — The NBA has postponed Wednesday evening’s sport in New Orleans between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Pelicans after a historic winter storm dumped a couple of foot of snow within the Massive Simple.
Tuesday’s winter storm made street journey treacherous in a subtropical metropolis with minimal snow-clearing tools readily available.
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The Milwaukee Bucks beat the climate by flying in Monday, a day sooner than regular, within the occasion that street circumstances turned protected sufficient to carry the sport on the 18,000-seat, downtown Smoothie King Heart.
However temperatures remained within the 30s on Wednesday, many most important highways within the metro areas had been closed by authorities and floor roads all through city remained coated in ice.
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Colleges and companies all through the realm additionally remained closed on Wednesday.
The Bucks are scheduled to play in Miami on Thursday, and it was unclear whether or not the workforce must wait till the day of the sport to fly out of New Orleans.
Louis Armstrong Worldwide Airport canceled all business departures on Wednesday.
The Pelicans are scheduled to play in Memphis on Friday evening.
