{"id":597152,"date":"2026-02-11T17:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/597152\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:52:18","slug":"john-tesh-to-perform-roundball-rock-live-to-open-sundays-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/597152\/","title":{"rendered":"John Tesh to perform &#8216;Roundball Rock&#8217; live to open Sunday&#8217;s NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">INGLEWOOD, Calif. &#8212; Coming to this weekend&#8217;s NBA All-Star Game: John Tesh and \u201cRoundball Rock,\u201d being performed live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tesh will play the song to introduce Sunday&#8217;s All-Star Game, which will be aired on NBC and Peacock, the NBA said Wednesday while unveiling the musical performances for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ludacris, the three-time Grammy winner, will be the headliner and perform on Saturday before the All-Star dunk contest. A pair of Grammy winners \u2014 Brandy and Sarah McLachlan \u2014 will perform the U.S. and Canadian national anthems before Sunday&#8217;s All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tesh will perform for the first time live inside a sports arena, the NBA said. \u201cRoundball Rock,&#8221; the league said, \u201ccelebrates the NBA All-Star Game\u2019s return to NBC after 24 years.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The song was the longtime anthem for NBC&#8217;s coverage of the NBA from 1990 through 2002. NBC returned to the NBA broadcast lineup this season, the start of a new 11-year broadcast agreement for the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP NBA: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. &#8212; Coming to this weekend&#8217;s NBA All-Star Game: John Tesh and \u201cRoundball Rock,\u201d being performed live.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79890,1297,7,74,6,7218,446,66,2658],"class_list":{"0":"post-597152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-79890","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-all-star-game","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-television"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116053275455636861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}