NBA Decides To Make Point In Scheduling 0 Games on Election Day 👎

[Bettor Days]

"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.

Associated Press

 

[Bettor Days]

What a joke. These leagues continue to force themselves into the political limelight.

 

[biggins]

The NBA’s full schedule for the season will be released Wednesday afternoon.​

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.

“It’s unusual. We don’t usually change the schedule for an external event,” James Cadogan, the executive director of the NBA’s social justice coalition, told NBC, which first reported the league’s Election Day schedule plan. “But voting and Election Day are obviously unique and incredibly important to our democracy.”

 

[Wagerallsports]

Biggins just another reason to not give a rats azz about this league anymore

I'll bet on it, but I don't watch anymore and I used to follow it religiously

 

[biggins]

As BeantownJim says “over paid janitors”

l have trouble betting the NBA only because NCAA hoops at the same time and is more fun to watch and l guess handicap.

The one thing l used to do with NBA was look for grueling schedule but they fixed that last collective bargaining agreement about teams playing X amount of games in X amount of days.
As far as trying to get folks out to vote I could give a shit either way just win baby.

 

[Bubbles]

95% of the players will not going to vote despite having the day off.

 

[doofy]

Very true bubbles. And the ones who do are still voting blindly they have no clue just following others.

 

[Bubbles]

and the other % of the population won't even care if we have games or not for they are busy cheating than watching nba lol

 

[carolinakid]

i guess they figure the dems will need all the help they can get this time around

 

[stormtrooper8]

Election Day should be national holiday, or at least a partial day off

Kind of sucks that people can’t find time to vote

Though NBA games usually happen after polls are closed/close to closing

 

[carolinakid]

a lot of people do the mail in thing

 

[BobbyFK]

What a joke. These leagues continue to force themselves into the political limelight.

Exactly...what does the NBA have to do with politics?

 

[Gary]

Exactly...what does the NBA have to do with politics?

This world we live in is a world of politics. There's nothing we can do to change it.

 

[BobbyFK]

This world we live in is a world of politics. There's nothing we can do to change it.

This is very true Gary. It seems like a ton of things nowadays are political based

 

[venditto]

Your vote don't count anyway you just think it does

 

[Gary]

This is very true Gary. It seems like a ton of things nowadays are political based

Even before Christ, even before we born. But nowadays it's just getting worse and worse.

 

[BobbyFK]

Even before Christ, even before we born. But nowadays it's just getting worse and worse.

yeah that’s what I meant. It just seems like it’s in the media more and more nowadays so you hear more about it

 

[venditto]

Stop paying attention to mainstream media it's propaganda to poison your mind. Enjoy your life while you can

 

[BobbyFK]

Stop paying attention to mainstream media it's propaganda to poison your mind. Enjoy your life while you can

I don’t watch like CNN or Fox or anything but when it comes to something sports related I pay more attention

 

[Wagerallsports]

Your vote don't count anyway you just think it does

Haha true