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Doc Rivers on the Rise of Athletes’ Focus on Voting

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Election Day 2020 has arrived. It’s an unprecedented one in many ways, including that dozens of stadiums and arenas are serving as polling places. That’s a direct result of athlete attention on voting, which took off this summer across sports leagues, but particularly in the NBA. Veteran NBA player and coach Doc Rivers takes us behind the scenes, to tell the story of how - against a backdrop of social and political unrest, as players gathered in the “bubble” due to the pandemic - voting took center stage. Plus we hear from voters outside Staples Center in Los Angeles. You can find information on where and how to vote HERE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Miranda and I'm here to vote.

0:05.0

This is my husband Rahid and this is our youngest son.

0:09.0

This is the baby, Khalil.

0:11.0

This is just, you know, historic.

0:13.0

This has never been done before.

0:15.0

They've never opened up like this stadiums and we're so really, you know,

0:19.0

just proud of the NBA and NFL.

0:22.5

It doesn't hurt that this is the home of the champions.

0:25.0

These are the Lakers here.

0:26.9

So we are big-time Lakers fans, and we really appreciate the Laker organization.

0:32.8

We're opening the doors and allowing us to do this.

0:35.6

So it's just a pleasure, and, you know, my wife wanted to come here

0:40.6

for the experience of it all. And that's all good. So we're here to support her and the nation.

0:49.2

In Los Angeles, voters are casting ballots at Staples Center and Dodgers Stadium and SoFi Stadium.

0:57.4

And in cities across the U.S., dozens more NBA, NFL, MLB, and other pro sports arenas are

1:05.3

voting centers as we speak.

1:08.4

It's unprecedented.

1:10.6

And it's what the NBA in particular fought for at the end

1:13.6

of summer when teams walked out of the playoffs and made the sports world hit pause.

1:20.6

Today, new Philadelphia 76ers coach, Doc Rivers, takes us behind the scenes to explain how getting

1:29.3

out the vote became the culmination of a year in sports unlike any other.

1:36.2

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, November 3rd, Election Day. And this is ESPN Daily.

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