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Hornets’ play-in arrival blocked by freight train
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The Charlotte Hornets had been delayed attending to the sector Wednesday for his or her NBA play-in sport in opposition to the Atlanta Hawks.
By a freight prepare, of all issues.
Tracks run throughout State Farm Enviornment, a remnant of a time when the realm was the location of the town’s two main passenger stations. Each stations had been torn down many years in the past, however most of the tracks that stay are nonetheless frequented by freight trains working close to the guts of downtown Atlanta.
Charlotte Hornets head coach James Borrego calls a play throughout the first half of an NBA basketball sport in opposition to the Washington Wizards on Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Charlotte, N.C.
(AP Photograph/Rusty Jones)
A type of trains stopped on a crossing earlier than the sport, blocking the Hornets’ chartered buses from reaching the gamers’ entrance on the underside degree of the sector.
The buses had been compelled to show round and discover an alternate path to the sector. They had been delayed about quarter-hour.
“I’ve by no means seen that,” Hornets coach James Borrego stated. “I have been coming to this enviornment for 20 years, and I’ve by no means seen a prepare cease earlier than the sport.”
He appeared to indicate that the Hawks had one thing to do with the freight prepare stopping on the crossing.
“Any individual determine it out. I do not know,” Borrego stated. “However our guys seen.”
He stated the delay fired up the Tenth-seeded Hornets, who had been seeking to earn their approach into the playoffs for the primary time since 2016.
“It is good gas for us,” Borrego stated.