Magic-Pelicans canceled over hurricane considerations

ORLANDO, Fla. — Issues over Hurricane Milton and its results on Florida compelled the cancellation of Friday’s preseason recreation in Orlando between the Magic and the New Orleans Pelicans, the NBA stated.

The sport is not going to be rescheduled.

Orlando was taking part in at San Antonio on Wednesday evening and was scheduled to return to central Florida on Thursday. A staff spokesperson stated the Magic now will keep an additional day in San Antonio earlier than departing Friday.

The hurricane made landfall alongside Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Class 3 storm Wednesday evening.

“There’s all the time issues greater than the sport of basketball and that is what we have now to maintain our perspective on,” Magic coach Jamahl Mosley stated. “Figuring out that there is households and houses and conditions which might be going by means of a tricky time proper now, we must be conscious of that and acutely aware of it.”

The Magic-Pelicans recreation is the second NBA preseason matchup to be affected by Milton. A recreation scheduled for Thursday in Miami between the Heat and Atlanta Hawks was postponed till Oct. 16 due to storm considerations. Additionally known as off earlier this week: a rescheduled NHL preseason recreation on Friday in Tampa between the Lightning and Predators — one which was initially set to be performed final month and was postponed due to Hurricane Helene.

“Keep secure Florida!” former Lightning star Steven Stamkos, who’s getting into his first season with Nashville, posted on social media Wednesday. “Enthusiastic about all of the wonderful folks within the Tampa space proper now.”

The NFL’s Jaguars are modifying their London journey plans Thursday due to the storm, pushing again their departure from Jacksonville to later within the night. The staff is also transferring observe again by a number of hours Thursday.

The Jaguars all the time go away Thursday for his or her London video games. They’ll play the Chicago Bears on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium because the visiting staff after which play a house recreation towards the New England Patriots on Oct. 20 at Wembley Stadium.

Numerous school and highschool occasions in Florida even have been canceled or postponed due to the storm, which forecasters say is more likely to carry drenching rain throughout a large swath of the state.

For now, two deliberate exhibitions by Simone Biles and different Olympic gymnasts — a part of the “Gold Over America Tour,” the acronym not coincidentally spelling out GOAT in a nod to Biles’ standing because the consensus best of all time within the sport — this weekend are nonetheless on. The tour is scheduled to come back to Dawn, the house of the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, on Friday after which transfer to Orlando on Saturday.

Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Seaside, Florida, which is north of Miami, is scheduled to renew stay racing on Friday. Saturday’s school soccer recreation with Cincinnati visiting Orlando to face UCF remains to be on, and the Memphis-South Florida recreation in Tampa was rescheduled earlier this week to be performed Saturday.

UCF and USF officers have each stated additional choices can be made, if vital, as soon as the storm passes.

Info from ESPN’s Michael C. Wright and Michael DiRocco and The Related Press was used on this report.