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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. How to Enter. To enter, attend any National Basketball Association® game in the United States or Canada during the 2008-09 regular season, register as a designated driver at the designated driver booth at the National Basketball Association venue by completing the designated driver pledge form. To enter without attending a National Basketball Association game, send a postcard (no envelopes please) with your name, e-mail address, mailing address, work or home phone number, the name of your favorite National Basketball Association team and a statement of no more than 100 words on why you believe it is important to be a designated driver at a sporting event to TEAM Coalition (“Sponsor”), 1800 Diagonal Road Suite 600, Alexandria, VA 22314. All entries submitted at a National Basketball Association venue must be received by the end of the last 2008-09 regular season game at the respective stadium. All online entries must be submitted by Friday, April 17, 2009. All mailed entries must be postmarked by Friday, April 17, 2009 and received by Monday, April 20, 2009.

You may enter as many times as you like, however, mailed entries are limited to one (1) entry per postcard and each mailed entry will be counted as one entry. All entries become the sole property of the Sponsor and receipt of entries will not be acknowledged or returned. Delivery of prize may require a street address (no P.O. Boxes). Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, mutilated, invalid, unintelligible, postage-due or misdirected entries, all of which will be disqualified. Sponsor is not responsible for the failure of any National Basketball Association venue to retain any entries or for any human error in connection with the retention of entries. No facsimiles, mechanical reproductions alterations or forged entries. Only fully completed entry forms are eligible and incomplete entry forms will be disqualified.

2. Start/End Dates. Sweepstakes begins on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 and all in-venue entries must be received by the last quarter of the last 2008-09 regular season game at any National Basketball Association venue. All online entries must be submitted by Friday, April 17, 2009. All mailed entries must be postmarked by Friday, April 17, 2009 and received by Monday, April 20, 2009.

3. Eligibility. Participation is open only to legal residents of the U.S. and Canada, age 21 and over in the U.S. as of date of entry, or who have reached the age of majority in Canada as of date of entry, and who possess a valid driver’s license. Void in Puerto Rico, outside of the U.S. and Canada, and where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law. Employees, officers & directors of TEAM Coalition (“Sponsor”) are ineligible.

4. Random Drawings/Odds. On or about Wednesday, April 22, 2009, each of the thirty (30) National Basketball Association teams will randomly select one (1) Finalist from a pool of all entries received at each stadium or received by TEAM via online or mail and identified as the favorite National Basketball Association team on such entry forms for a total of thirty (30) Finalists (“Finalists”). The two (2) drawn Finalists (of the thirty (30) Finalists) each representing a National Basketball Association team (one from the Eastern Conference and one from the Western Conference) playing in the 2009 NBA Finals® will receive the NBA Fiansls® prize as detailed below. One (1) additional Finalist will be drawn from the remaining 28 Finalists to win the NBA All-Star Game® prize. Odds of being chosen as a Finalist depend on the number of eligible entries received for each venue/team. By entering the Sweepstakes, entrants agree to be bound by these rules and the decisions of the judges, which will be final and binding in all matters relating to the Sweepstakes. Canadian residents, if selected as a Finalist, must correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question by phone or mail in order to win a prize. Contest not produced or executed by any the Office of the Commissioner of Basketball, National Basketball Association Properties, Inc. or any other National Basketball Association affiliated entity (collectively, the “NBA Entities”).

5. Prizes. Two (2) NBA Finals® prizes each consisting of two (2) tickets to the first game of the Finals played in the venue of the National Basketball Association team for which the winner was selected as a Finalist (ARV $550 U.S. each); One (1) NBA All-Star Game® prizes each consisting of a trip for two (2) people to the 2009 NBA All-Star Game® at US Airways Center in Phoenix, AZ on February 15, 2009. The NBA All-Star Game® prize includes roundtrip coach-class air transportation for winner and travel companion from gateway airport nearest to winner’s residence to Phoenix, AZ, a minimum of two (2) nights hotel accommodations as determined by Sponsor (single room, double occupancy, if necessary), and two (2) tickets to the 2009 NBA All-Star Game® (ARV $2,500 U.S.). Total ARV of all prizes: $3,500 U.S. All winners will be solely responsible for all applicable taxes on prizes and any other costs not indicated as forming part of the prize as well as optional travel insurance. Winners are responsible for ensuring they have proper travel documentation. Winners must be available to attend the prize events on the dates of such events; otherwise, such prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate. Winner of the NBA All-Star Game® prize must be able to travel on Sponsor-designated dates, or prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate. All travel subject to availability. Restrictions and blackout dates apply.

6. Notification. Entrants will be notified of their Finalist status by e-mail or telephone on or about April 24, 2009. The NBA All-Star Game® prize winners will be notified of their winning status by e-mail or telephone after the Finals teams are determined. All winners will be required to sign and return, where legal, an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release. Any travel companion will be required to sign and return a travel release prior to ticketing. If travel companion is a minor, he/she must travel with his/her parent/legal guardian who must sign the release. If winner cannot be contacted, if any prize is returned as undeliverable, or in the event of noncompliance with these Sweepstakes rules and requirements, an alternate winner may be selected. Limit one prize per person. Game or event dates and times determined in the sole discretion of the NBA Entities, as applicable, and are subject to change and/or cancellation.

7. Conditions. All taxes are the sole responsibility of the winners. Participation in Sweepstakes and acceptance of prize constitutes winners’ permission for Sponsor and NBA Entities to use their respective names, addresses (city and state/province), likenesses, biographical information and any mail-in entry statements for advertising and promotional purposes without notice or additional compensation, except where prohibited by law. In addition, prize winners, by accepting a prize, agree to participate in promotional events and activities, as requested by the Sponsor and/or NBA Entities without additional compensation. By participating, entrants, winners and the NBA All-Star Game® prize travel companions agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor, the NBA Entities, their respective advertising and Sweepstakes agencies and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors, from any and all liability, for loss, harm, damage, injury, cost or expense whatsoever including without limitation, property damage, personal injury and/or death which may occur in connection with, preparation for, travel to, or participation in Sweepstakes, or possession, acceptance and/or use or misuse of prize or participation in any Sweepstakes-related activity and claims based on publicity rights, defamation, copyright infringement or invasion of privacy and merchandise delivery. Sponsor is not responsible if any prize cannot be awarded or if any prize event is cancelled due to Acts of God, Acts of War, natural disasters, weather or terrorism. Entrants who do not comply with these Official Rules, or attempt to interfere with this Sweepstakes in any way shall be disqualified. Prizes are non-transferable. No substitutions or cash redemptions. In the case of unavailability of any prize, Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value. Sponsor shall not be responsible for awarding any replacement prize if any of the prize events are cancelled.

Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant/winner who violates, in the sole judgment of the Sponsor and/or the NBA Entities, these Official Rules, or whose conduct impairs or damages, or tends to impair or damage, in the sole judgment of the Sponsor, the reputation or public image of the Sweepstakes, the Sponsor or the NBA Entities, including, without limitation, any of its member National Basketball Association teams. Without limiting the foregoing, Sponsor may disqualify any entrant/winner having an outstanding or prior warrant, indictment, citation or conviction involving alcohol or alcohol-related incidents, regardless of when such incident occurs.

8. For Quebec Residents. Any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Régie only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.

9. Winners List. To obtain the names of the winners, visit www.teamcoalition.org or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope by April 30, 2009 to: TEAM Coalition, 1800 Diagonal Road Suite 600, Alexandria, VA 22314. Canadian residents may omit return postage.

10. Sponsor. TEAM Coalition, 1800 Diagonal Road Suite 600, Alexandria, VA 22314. Sponsor is a promotional partner of National Basketball Association Properties, Inc. National Basketball Association trademarks and copyrights used with permission of National Basketball Association Properties, Inc.

 
 
 

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