YES! INJECT IT DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS!
For any 90’s kid out there that was as obsessed with the NBA as I was during that era, this comes as welcome news: NBC is putting a bid in to gain NBA rights for the first time since 2002. Which means that the John Tesh masterpiece, “Roundball Rock,” aka “The NBA on NBC Theme,” will also be making its return*.
YES! YES! YES!
The NBA on NBC is what I grew up on. That theme song, the elaborate intros into games, Marv Albert (before he bit that lady), Bob Costas, Steve Snapper Jones, Ahmad Rashad, Bill Walton before he was zooted out of his brain, The Czar Mike Fratello, this guy:
Never could remember his name. But I LIVED for NBA on NBC content. Triple header Sunday’s in Spring were the peak. A look at my Sunday schedule as a 10 year old in April of 1994:
8am-9am: Watch Mighty Max and King Arthur and the Knights of Justice .
9am-9:10am: Eat my Cookie Crisp as quietly as possible because my parents are still in bed and the longer they sleep the better the chances that we’re not going to church.
9:30am: Oh my God! We’re not going to go to church! There’s no way we have enough time to get ready for 10am service at this point!
9:32am: Mom and Dad are up and fully dressed for church. Brush your teeth, put your Dockers on, we’re going to church.
10am-11am: Church.
11:05am-11:15am: Stop at Piggly Wiggly on the way home from church for donuts.
11:30am-1:30pm: Game 1 of the tripleheader. Likely Pacers/Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
2pm-4:30pm: Game 2 of the tripleheader. Likely Magic/Bulls at Chicago Stadium.
4:30pm-7pm: Game 3 of the tripleheader. We hit the West Coast, Trailblazers at Lakers.
7pm-8pm: America’s Funniest Home Videos.
Scene.
The only bummer about this NBC bid is that they are bidding against Turner, which means TNT would lose their NBA rights. And that means we’d lose the best pre or post game sports show on TV: Inside the NBA with EJ, Kenny, Chuck and Shaq.
My guess is that if the NBA did go to NBC, they’d just find a way to have Inside the NBA on NBC with that same cast. We can’t lose Inside the NBA. It must be protected.
Anyway, a fun bit of nostaliga news for the 90’s kids.
*I know Fox has been using it for college basketball for the past few seasons, but it just doesn’t hit the same. It’s like when the cartoon Doug went to ABC from Nickelodeon. It was still Doug, but not really.
PS: Game 5 for the Bucks tonight I’m caught somewhere inbetween just wanting to be put out of my misery and being hopeful that the season isn’t over yet. Leaning toward the former. Even when they’ve been fully healthy this season, it just hasn’t looked good. But there’s this shred of me that wants a Woj Bomb in about 3 hours that tells me that Giannis and Dame are playing, followed by a blowout win in Game 5. Then they go back to Indy on Thursday and silence that crowd before ripping their hearts out in Game 7 back in Milwaukee on Saturday. I realize it’s a remote scenario, but I just can’t let it die.
Double PS: ^Related:
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