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发帖数: 8634 | 1 Game 4 of the Western Conference playoff series between the Los Angeles
Clippers andSan Antonio Spurs, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Staples
Center, would be moved to Monday if the hockey game between the Los Angeles
Kings and Phoenix Coyotes, scheduled earlier in the day at the arena, goes
multiple overtime periods and delays the start of the NBA game too much.
Staples Center has hosted 127 doubleheaders since opening in 1998.
Basketball to basketball is no problem. Basketball to hockey isn't difficult
, either. The problem lies in going from hockey to basketball, where it
takes about twice as long to convert the playing surfaces. It takes two
hours and 15 minutes (to change the floor from hockey to basketball). In
March alone, the arena hosted 33 events in 31 days. Doubleheaders,
particularly on Sunday, are common.
The ice hockey surface is always in place, while the two basketball courts
can be switched in and out in about 75 minutes. It gets challenging when the
35-man crew is asked to change from hockey to basketball in a short amount
of time. It gets downright nerve-racking when it's a playoff hockey game
where the two teams simply play on until there's a winner and each overtime
period comes with a break.
It's easier to go from basketball to hockey because you're just picking
everything up, versus laying everything down. If there was going to be a
hockey-basketball doubleheader, it'd be better for basketball to go first.
It didn't work out that way because NBC, which televises the NHL playoffs,
didn't want to change the start time of the Kings game.
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/olympics/story/_/id/7945186/stap |
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