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NBA on NBC theme song, explained: The story behind John Tesh's nostalgic 'Roundball Rock'

With so much changing for the 2025 season of NBA broadcasts, NBC decided to return to its original theme song, reviving "Roundball Rock." The network won back rights to some NBA games in 2024, with ...

‘Roundball Rock' returns! John Tesh on the making of his beloved NBA on NBC theme

The song has spawned a "Saturday Night Live" sketch and has its own Wikipedia page, and it's now set to make it's ...
KTVZ

When does NBA on NBC start? Theme song, broadcast team and more for 2025-26

By Sanjesh SinghThe 2025 basketball season will see something different — something that hasn't been seen since the early ...

‘Roundball Rock’ returns to its sports theme mountaintop with the NBA back on NBC

John Tesh's iconic song "has such a different feel from any other piece of theme music that’s out there. ... It just fits ...
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Ohio fans ready for NBA on NBC

The NBA on NBC” ran for 12 seasons from 1990 to 2002, highlighted by two separate three-peats for the Chicago Bulls dynasty ...
WRIC

Common’s journey from Bulls ball boy to NBA theme song composer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When rapper-actor Common was a kid, he carried towels and sneakers as a Chicago Bulls ball boy who was close enough to hear the squeak of shoes and the roar inside the arena.