NBA schedule: No games on midterm Election Day

By TIM REYNOLDS | VFAB Basketball Author

The NBA will be off on Election Day.

The league’s agenda for the coming period will have all 30 teams participating in on Nov. 7, the evening ahead of the midterm elections. The NBA is hoping groups use that night time as an chance to motivate fans to get out and vote, additionally amplify the have to have for civic engagement.

But on Nov. 8, which is Election Working day, no NBA teams have games scheduled. Groups are remaining inspired to share election information and facts — this kind of as registration deadlines — with their enthusiast bases in the weeks primary up to Nov. 8.

“The scheduling conclusion came out of the NBA family’s concentration on promoting nonpartisan civic engagement and encouraging lovers to make a approach to vote throughout midterm elections,” the league claimed Tuesday.

All 435 U.S. Residence seats will be up for grabs on Nov. 8, alongside with more than 30 U.S. Senate seats and gubernatorial races.

“It’s abnormal. We do not ordinarily alter the program for an external celebration,” James Cadogan, the executive director of the NBA’s social justice coalition, advised NBC, which 1st reported the league’s Election Day timetable plan. “But voting and Election Day are obviously one of a kind and unbelievably important to our democracy.”

The go is a rarity for the league, which typically plays no online games on Thanksgiving and Xmas Eve and tries to prevent scheduling video games on the day of the NCAA men’s basketball championship match — often the very first Monday of April. It also has a few days off developed all around the All-Star Match, which requires location in February.