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"Roundball Rock" is a musical composition by John Tesh composed in 1990 for the NBA on NBC. The song has served as the theme for the NBA on NBC from 1990-2002, and will be the theme again starting in 2025. [1] It also currently serves as the theme song for Fox /FS1 College Hoops. [2]
The duo pitched the theme to NBC executives played by Vince Vaughn, Kenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon — unofficially adding lyrics to the song. “Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-basketball, gimme gimme gimme the ...
Inside the NBA, branded for sponsorship purposes as Inside the NBA presented by Kia, is the halftime and postgame studio show for NBA on TNT broadcasts. The show has been hosted since 1990 by Ernie Johnson, joined on set by three analysts: Kenny Smith (since 1998), Charles Barkley (since 2000), and Shaquille O'Neal (since 2011).
John Frank Tesh Jr. [1] (born July 9, 1952) is an American musician and radio and television presenter. He wrote the NBA on NBC basketball theme "Roundball Rock", and hosts the Intelligence for Your Life radio show.
"The Bad Boys" (the Original from 1986 to 1991) – Isiah Thomas (Zeke / The Captain), Bill Laimbeer (The Black Hat / The Darth Vader of the NBA), Joe Dumars (Mister Louisiana), Rick Mahorn (The Baddest Bad Boy of Them All / The Master of Being Bad), Vinnie Johnson (The Microwave), John Salley (The Spider), Dennis Rodman (The Worm / The Rebound ...
Kenneth Smith (born March 8, 1965), is an American sports commentator and former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Jet", he played in the NBA from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, and Denver Nuggets. [1]
The Starters was a podcast, blog, and television program that analyzed, and often satirized, the National Basketball Association (NBA). The show was written and hosted by Canadians Tas Melas and Phil Elder (J.E. Skeets), Australian Leigh Ellis and American Trey Kerby.
For the 2006–07 NBA season, ESPN began using "Fast Break", the theme music used for ABC's NBA broadcasts since 2004, as the theme for its own NBA games. Because of the reorganization of ABC Sports under the oversight of ESPN, and its 2006 rebranding as ESPN on ABC (which calls for all sporting events aired on ABC to utilize the same ...