NZ Breakers' Australian NBL clash with Perth Wildcats on Friday has been postponed, due to a COVID-19 outbreak within the squad.
The team were scheduled to travel to Western Australia on Thursday to face their old rivals, but now won't make that trip. Details of the game's rescheduling are yet to be confirmed.
Seven players have tested positive for COVID-19, while another three are injured.
Breakers coach Mody Moar was blunt in his assessment of the postponed game, following two seasons of disruptions due to COVID-19.
"Let's call it a nuisance," he said. "The rules in the NBL say you need to have eight players or more to compete in a game and we don't.
"It's a terrible situation for us; we want to play this game. When anyone tries to pull a 'swifty', he should have something to gain; we're just losing from this interaction. The NBL trusts us after what we've been through."
"The logistical standpoint of this is going to be complicated any way you look at it, the season is a complicated thing and you put a spanner in the middle of it and you know it's going to have ramifications.
"Sadly, we're very experienced with this; our medical staff, our training staff are used to bringing players back from COVID."
Breakers general manager Simon Edwards revealed the club are working closely with the ANBL to find a new date to play the Wildcats.
"It is postponed, not cancelled," he said. "We were leaving in an hour; we had the bus booked; I just cancelled it; we've got the flights; it was not the plan for us to miss the game.
"It feels like Deja Vu, but what the last two years have shown is that we are resilient. Unfortunately, this isn't new to us.
"Out of every sporting team in the world, the Breakers have probably had it the hardest, in terms of relocations, in terms of playing in empty stadiums, and the league understands we are not going to roll over and do a stunt."
Earlier this month, the Wildcats snapped the Breakers' five-game winning streak with a 92-84 victory at Auckland's Spark Arena.
That contest had some extra edge to it for the Wildcats, after the NZ club's social media team posted an uncomplimentary image of a billboard comparing Corey Webster with a cat emoji.
Webster - who spent seven seasons with the Breakers, winning three ANBL championships - responded by torching his former club for 26 points en route to the win.
The Breakers currently sit second on the competition ladder, four spots above sixth-placed Perth.
