C’s Top Season’s 1st Opponent
- Sep 30, 2010, 12:18 PM
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The match-up between Shaq's new team and his old team has bumped the gubernatorial candidates. (AP)
Rather than squaring off against the Green and the NBA’s new Big 3, the Boston Media Consortium has moved its previously scheduled Oct. 26 gubernatorial debate so as to not coincide with Celtics’ opening night.
That evening, the C’s begin their season at home against the new-look Miami Heat, who picked up MVP LeBron James and forward Chris Bosh in the off-season to complement star guard Dwyane Wade. The nationally televised game is one of the NBA season’s highlights.
The consortium, of which WBUR is a member, decided that it wants to ensure that voters tune in for the important debate. (It’s the final one of the campaign.) The debate will now be the night before, on Oct. 25. As State House News Service wrote, it’s “a relief to the subset of political junkies who are avid basketball fans, and vice versa.”
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