Don’t anticipate to see your favourite basketball groups face off on Election Day.
As People head to the polls to solid their ballots within the 2024 U.S. presidential election—casting their votes for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her operating mate Tim Walz, Republican nominee Donald Trump and JD Vance or a 3rd occasion candidate—the NBA is not going to maintain any video games Nov. 5, per the league’s official 2024-2025 common season schedule.
The primary time the league made such a transfer was in 2022, in an effort to spice up voter turnout in that yr’s midterm elections.
“It’s uncommon,” the Govt Director of the Nationwide Basketball Social Justice Coalition James Cadogan informed NBC Information on the time. “We don’t normally change the schedule for an exterior occasion, however voting and Election Day are clearly distinctive and extremely vital to our democracy.”
He added, “That’s a part of the worth proposition that we need to make certain folks perceive, that voting is not like anything.”
