After a remarkable ace’s shoulder fracture injury, the NBA must correct a tournament error….

The Celtics escaped Toronto with a win Friday night in a tight in-season tournament matchup against the Raptors. However, the bigger story after the game ended up being the court itself rather than the game.

Jaylen Brown and several other players on both teams were slipping and sliding on Toronto’s new tournament court for much of the evening. Brown ultimately left the game prematurely in the closing seconds of regulation after tweaking his groin after one final slip. After Boston.

“I slipped. That’s it. I slipped,” Brown told reporters in Toronto per Adam Himmelsbach. “I think I might have strained my groin a little bit. We’ll see how it feels, but the court was just slippery all game. I think as players we’re all here for the In-season tournament because it’s going to generate revenue, excitement, competition but we’ve got to make sure the floor is safe to play on.

“We can’t put our player out here and risk their health. Tonight I thought the floor was unacceptable. I think guys were slipping all over the place, not just me.

The problem for the NBA now is that Friday’s situation in Toronto is far from an isolated incident. Several players around the league have complained about the slickness of the new unique tournament courts created for all 30 teams for use just on tournament nights. One tournament court in Dallas was even taken out of use after a single use due to a “manufacturing issue