Posted on 08/16/2022 9:30:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
The NBA will be off on Election Day.
The league's schedule for the coming season will have all 30 teams playing on Nov. 7, the night before the midterm elections. The NBA is hoping teams use that night as an opportunity to encourage fans to get out and vote, plus amplify the need for civic engagement.
But on Nov. 8, which is Election Day, no NBA teams have games scheduled. Teams are being encouraged to share election information -- such as registration deadlines -- with their fan bases in the weeks leading up to Nov. 8.
"The scheduling decision came out of the NBA family's focus on promoting nonpartisan civic engagement and encouraging fans to make a plan to vote during midterm elections," the league said Tuesday.
All 435 U.S. House seats will be up for grabs on Nov. 8, along with more than 30 U.S. Senate seats and gubernatorial races.
The move is a rarity for the league, which typically plays no games on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve and tries to avoid scheduling games on the day of the NCAA men's basketball championship game -- often the first Monday of April. It also has a few days off built around the All-Star Game, which takes place in February.
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The leftists are pulling out all of the stops.
The NBA will be off on Election Day.
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Better make that a week, or maybe a month.
nba who?
Interesting, since the NBA and its players are funded, in most part, by the CCP.
Nothing but Afros
What about the 3 weeks of voting prior to "Election Day"????
Come on Man! Either you're committed to the vote fraud effort or you're not!!!
Basically they are telling the world that a certain segment of society care smore about basketball than government..........................
I say pamphlets should be scattered across demonrat cities announcing free air jordan giveaways on election day in some distant field somewhere
Exactly. Heck, I'm still trying to figure out what the "N" in NBA stands for.
I do have some theories ā¦
Careful........
Is the NBA going to take the following weekend off so democrats can riot?
āNā as in Nitwit
Not doubting this, but where is this publicly available?
Contractual agreements of franchise for equipment and apparel.
There was a time when bars were closed (or “dry”) on election day to reduce the buying of votes.
NBA fans are mostly welfare bums and already have their mail-in ballots cast. Is the NBA hoping this will allow the welfare bums to commit more fraud on election day?
Yep.........................
Because folks who can afford to go to NBA games cannot figure out how to carve five minutes out of their day to vote?
Does anybody even watch the NBA? I haven’t watched an NBA game since MJ retired.
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