Slippery Floor Halts Celtics’ Game

The NBA game between the Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks was called early in the second quarter Wednesday because of a slippery court at Boston Garden.

With Boston ahead, 37-22, and 10:30 left in the half, officials called the game “because of unsafe conditions.”

Under NBA rules, the game will be rescheduled. It was not known if the game would be restarted or picked up where it was stopped.

An area at one end of the court inside the three-point perimeter became slippery as unseasonably warm weather apparently caused condensation of ice under the court.

The last NBA game that had to be rescheduled was on Jan. 17, 1989, when racial violence broke out in the area near Miami Arena, where the Heat was supposed to play Phoenix.