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.
The league’s schedule for the coming season will have all 30 teams playing on Nov. 7, the night before the midterm elections.
"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. "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."
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