Don’t expect to see your favorite basketball teams face off on Election Day.
As Americans head to the polls to cast their votes in the 2024 U.S. presidential election – to cast their ballots for the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her teammate in the race Tim WaltzRepublican candidate. Donald Trump and JD Vance or a third-party candidate – the NBA will hold no games on Nov. 5, according to the league’s official 2024-2025 regular-season schedule.
The first time the league made such a move was in 2022, in an effort to boost voter turnout in that year’s midterm elections.
“It’s extraordinary,” said the executive director of the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition James Cadogan NBC News said at the time. “We don’t normally change the schedule for an outside event, but obviously voting and Election Day are unique and very important to our democracy.”
“This is part of the value proposition that we want to make sure people understand, that voting is unlike anything else,” he added.
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