Warriors vs. Timberwolves game postponed after deadly Minneapolis shooting involving federal agents

SAN FRANCISCO -- The NBA has postponed Saturday's crippled betwixt the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors successful Minneapolis amid increasing unrest aft a Saturday greeting confrontation with national migration officers ended successful a antheral being changeable and killed.

In a statement, the NBA said the crippled was postponed "to prioritize the information and information of the Minneapolis community."

The league intends to play the crippled Sunday astatine 5:30 p.m. ET. The Warriors and Timberwolves are besides scheduled to play again successful downtown Minneapolis connected Monday night.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said a 37-year-old Minneapolis antheral was killed successful Saturday's shooting but declined to place him. He added that accusation astir what led up to the shooting was limited.

The serviceman who changeable the antheral is an eight-year Border Patrol veteran, according to national officials.

It's the 3rd shooting and 2nd decease successful Minneapolis this period involving a national agent, sparking persistent protests crossed the metropolis contempt subzero temperatures.

Thousands marched crossed downtown Minneapolis connected Friday afternoon, calling for an extremity to the ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cognition successful the state. The large-scale protests went past Target Center and the Warriors' downtown squad hotel.

The shooting Saturday greeting occurred astir 2 miles southbound of the arena, sparking different circular of protests from section citizens.

In 2020, NBA playoff games being played successful the "bubble" astatine Walt Disney World successful Florida were postponed aft players chose to boycott pursuing the shooting of Jacob Blake successful Wisconsin. Games resumed 3 days later.

Saturday's crippled had been scheduled to aerial connected ABC; the rescheduled crippled Sunday is acceptable to aerial connected NBA TV.

Information from The Associated Press was utilized successful this report