The Association is taking Election Day off in 2022.

This season’s upcoming NBA schedule will have an interesting wrinkle: no games on Nov. 8 — Election Day.

The league will have all 30 teams in action the night before during “civic engagement night” and is encouraging teams to use the night before to remind fans to vote.

“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 National Basketball Social Justice Coalition, told NBC. “Voting and Election Day are obviously unique and very important to our democracy.”

In previous years, some teams have turned their arenas into registration and voting locations, in part because players staged a walkout during the 2020 “bubble” after a number of police shootings of people of color, particularly Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.

The full schedule is set to be released on Wednesday afternoon.

With News Wire Services

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