The song has spawned a "Saturday Night Live" sketch and has its own Wikipedia page, and it's now set to make it's long-awaited return to the NBA on NBC.

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 the deal taking effect in the 2025–2026 season. Here is more on the NBA on NBC theme song.

John Tesh, Reggie Miller, Mike Tirico and others discuss the return of the NBA on NBC. "Roundball Rock" is all cued up.

Michael Jordan made his debut as a special contributor to NBC Sports' return to NBA broadcasting on Tuesday night, saying he's doing so as a way to give back to basketball.

The NBA returns to NBC this season after more than two decades away from the network and plans to make Sunday night’s must-see TV beginning in February. On Monday, the NBA announced that four-time Grammy Award-winning musician Lenny Kravitz will perform the new Sunday Night Basketball show open on NBC.

The red light on John Tesh’s answering machine was blinking. With the press of a button, a cassette tape began to roll and a message that would go on to change his life started to play. Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. That ...

John Tesh's famed “Roundball Rock” — the soundtrack that was NBC's NBA theme music through 2002 — was back, and with some help from artificial intelligence, so was the voice of the late Jim Fagan, a longtime NBC Sports narrator who was part of those NBA broadcasts a generation ago.

The NBA returns to NBC this season after more than two decades away from the network and plans to make Sunday nights must-see TV beginning in February.