The NBA and multiple college basketball conferences postponed games in response to winter weather that broke snowfall records in some southern states and coated others with a mix of snow and ice. Wednesday night's NBA contest between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Pelicans was called off a day after the storm dumped about a foot of snow in New Orleans — a subtropical city with very little in the way of experience with,

The Louisiana snow storm has shifted many routine plans, and has now affected the NBA schedule. Tonight's home game for the New Orleans Pelicans against the Milwaukee Bucks has been postponed due the unsafe road conditions, the NBA officially announced on Wednesday morning.

A New Orleans Pelicans home game set for Wednesday has been postponed by the NBA after a rare snowstorm blanketed the host city for next month's Super Bowl, marking the latest disruption to the North American sports calendar due to extreme weather.