How Marvin Gaye Changed The NBA (Rebroadcast)
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Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In 1983, musical legend Marvin Gaye stepped to the microphone at The Forum in Los Angeles, to sing the national anthem before the NBA All-Star Game. What happened next set in motion a cultural transformation within the NBA that still reverberates today. (This episode first aired on March 1, 2023)
Guests: David Aldridge and Marcus Thompson II, The Athletic
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| 0:33.0 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:35.0 | Today we are replaying one of our very favorite episodes of 2023. |
| 0:39.0 | One of our very favorite episodes ever, actually. |
| 0:41.0 | It first aired back in March, and it's about how iconic Motown |
| 0:45.2 | musician Marvin Gaye changed the cultural fabric of the NBA through a legendary performance |
| 0:51.0 | of the National Anthem back in the early 1980s. |
| 0:54.1 | The episode is an absolute delight. |
| 0:56.1 | I don't know if I've ever laughed so much in an interview and it also takes you on an |
| 1:00.5 | emotional and intellectual journey. So sit back and enjoy the ride. |
| 1:04.4 | We all know what the National Anthem sounds like or at least what it used to sound like at sports events because for many many years it almost always sounded the same. Oh, can you see? |
| 1:24.0 | Why the |
| 1:25.0 | the guns will be |
| 1:28.0 | What so proudly |
| 1:31.0 | We're |
| 1:30.0 | What so proudly we hailed sung in a very straightforward way, very by the book, because that's what artists were expected to do. |
| 1:40.0 | Every once in a while, a singer would get creative and maybe even infused some of their own |
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