Read to Achieve serves as the NBA/WNBA’s and its’ team’s primary community activity and harnesses all of professional basketball’s best assets to impact one of the most pressing issue our society faces. The program promotes the value of reading and online literacy while encouraging families and adults to read regularly with young children.

The goals of this initiative is to build a lifelong love of reading in young people by providing greater access to books and technology; encourage and engage members of the NBA/WNBA family including current & former players, league and team personnel, coaches, wives and parents to participate in the program as a Volunteer Reading Coach and to use all of the NBA/WNBA assets to create ongoing public awareness of this initiative through courtside signage, PSA’s, NBA.com and NBA.com TV presence and events around the league.

For the event on October 31, members of the Indiana Pacers All-Star Reading Team, Indiana Pacemates along with mascots Boomer and Bowser will share stories with students from, (Elder W. Diggs) IPS#42, (Merle Sidener Gifted Academy) #359, (Wendell Phillips) #63 and (Daniel Webster) #346. Students will also have the opportunity to interact with select zoo animals and talk to the animal handlers about each animal.

Each child will receive a Pacers Reading Kit, Read to Achieve t-shirt and each school will receive tickets to the Indiana Pacers vs. Chicago Bulls game on February 22nd.

The Indiana Pacers will begin their Read to Achieve reading timeouts on Thursday, November 6 at Monument Lighthouse Charter School at 10:00 am.

For more information on the Pacers Read to Achieve program presented by Chase and in partnership with the City of Indianapolis Knozone program contact the Pacers Community Relations Department at (317) 917-2500.