Detroit Bad Boys - Pistons-Hawks postponed due to inclement weather, rescheduled for April 8A community of Detroit Pistons fans since 2005https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48119/detroitbadboys-fave.png2014-01-30T15:54:59-05:00http://www.detroitbadboys.com/rss/stream/51254532014-01-30T15:54:59-05:002014-01-30T15:54:59-05:00Pistons-Hawks rescheduled for April 8
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<p>The previously postponed Pistons-Hawks game in Atlanta has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 8. Tip off will be at 7:30 p.m. ET. </p> <p>The NBA didn't take long to reschedule the postponed <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.detroitbadboys.com/">Pistons</a>-<a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.peachtreehoops.com/">Hawks</a> game. The Pistons app and Keith Langlois announced Thursday the game would be made up near the end of the season:</p>
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<p>Pistons game at Altanta, postponed on Wednesday, has been rescheduled for 7:30 pm on April 8, a Tuesday.</p>
— Keith Langlois (@Keith_Langlois) <a href="https://twitter.com/Keith_Langlois/statuses/428975507548291072">January 30, 2014</a>
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<p>What was supposed to be Game No. 46 will now be Game No. 78 barring any other postponements. And instead of playing on the back-end of a back-to-back, the make-up game with the Hawks will be the first game of a created back-to-back, as the team will have to travel to Cleveland after the game to take on the Cavs the next night. The Pistons will have two days off before the make-up game, though. (Atlanta will also have a back-to-back now; they are scheduled to host the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.celticsblog.com/">Boston Celtics</a> the next night).</p>
<p>I haven't been able to find anything on whether or not tickets for the postponed Jan. 29 game will be honored, but I'm guessing they will be. I shall be in attendance.</p>
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<p>The game will be rescheduled at a later date. </p> <p>It snowed a few inches in Atlanta on Tuesday and it turned into <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/winter-storm-warning-expanded-to-include-all-of-me/nc4ym/">a State of Emergency</a>. As a result, the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.detroitbadboys.com/">Pistons</a>-<a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.peachtreehoops.com/">Hawks</a> game that was scheduled for Wednesday night has been postponed.</p>
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<p>Pistons at Hawks tonight postponed "due to severe weather conditions in the Atlanta area," league announces.</p>
— Brett Pollakoff (@BrettEP) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrettEP/statuses/428553742582312960">January 29, 2014</a>
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<p>The Pistons' official release says the game will be rescheduled at a later date.</p>
<p>This is the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nba.com/2011/news/01/11/hawks-game-postponed/">second Hawks game to be postponed in four years </a>due to a little snow. If you're wondering how this could happen over a few inches of snow, you should <a href="http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2014/1/29/5357246/heres-how-hothlanta-happened-again" target="_blank" style="background-color: #ffffff;">read this</a>.</p>
<p>It was hard for me to not make light of the situation being from Michigan and seeing functionality in far worse weather conditions, but the situation is very real and serious, especially for the parents who had to rescue their children from stranded school buses or go pick up their kids from school today after dropping them off yesterday. It's a legit mess.</p>
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<p>Instead of hopping on a plane Tuesday night, the Pistons will remain in Detroit and try to fly into Atlanta on Wednesday, the same day as their game against the Hawks. </p> <p>Procedure when playing the second game of a back-to-back on the road is to fly out immediately after the first night's game, win or lose. The <a href="https://www.detroitbadboys.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Pistons</a> are supposed to play the <a href="https://www.peachtreehoops.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Atlanta Hawks</a> on Wednesday night, so the idea was to fly into Atlanta after Tuesday night's home game against the <a href="https://www.orlandopinstripedpost.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Orlando Magic</a>. However, inclement weather in Georgia is forcing the Pistons to remain grounded in Detroit:</p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Pistons&src=hash">#Pistons</a> can't travel to Atlanta tonight for Wednesday's game. Will try tomorrow.</p>
— David Mayo (@David_Mayo) <a href="https://twitter.com/David_Mayo/statuses/428366841526759424">January 29, 2014</a>
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<p>It snowed up to THREE inches Tuesday afternoon in parts of Georgia, which, combined with no salt trucks and the Michigan-Fall temperatures in the teens, resulted in icy and dangerous road conditions, gridlocking the city. Needless to say, the snow also created problems at the world's busiest airport [<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/28/travel/winter-storm-travel/" target="_blank">CNN</a>]:</p>
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<p>The last time the Atlanta airport used its four snow plows to actually plow snow was the great snow storm of January 2011, said airport spokesman Reese McCranie. The airport also has six snow brooms, four de-icers, seven spreaders, 100,000 gallons of de-icing fluids, 50,000 pounds of de-icing solid material and 50,000 pounds of a salt/sand mix to clear roadways.</p>
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<p>Roughly 930 flights were canceled, including the Pistons' obviously. FOX Sports Detroit's Dave Hogg is even wondering if the game will get postponed.</p>
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<p>Reading <a href="https://twitter.com/J88Ryan">@J88Ryan</a>'s tweets from Atlanta and wondering if the Pistons-Hawks game is going to happen tomorrow.</p>
— Dave Hogg (@Stareagle) <a href="https://twitter.com/Stareagle/statuses/428370828153982976">January 29, 2014</a>
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<p>The mayor of Atlanta is telling people to stay off the roads for 24 hours, so I think the NBA needs to postpone Pistons-Hawks.</p>
— Dave Hogg (@Stareagle) <a href="https://twitter.com/Stareagle/statuses/428401016954843136">January 29, 2014</a>
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<p>The city has enough of a mess without 10,000 people trying to get to a basketball game.</p>
— Dave Hogg (@Stareagle) <a href="https://twitter.com/Stareagle/statuses/428401153773035521">January 29, 2014</a>
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<p>I'd be surprised (and disappointed because I have plans to attend the game), but the roads are as dicey as I've ever seen for such little snow, especially since you can't predict PANIC from those two-wheel drivers who don't know how to handle the foreign flurries. It took many, including myself, several hours to drive relatively short distances, stopping to help push cars through large patches of ice; and I have friends who went out with their friends looking for their <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/J88Ryan/status/428380227325427713">children stranded on school buses</a>. I don't think the flight itself will be an issue Wednesday, but if it's going to take the Pistons several hours to get to Philips Arena from the airport, the league may decide it'd be better to just postpone.</p>
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