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Roundball Rock was NBC's theme music for their NBA telecasts. The theme was composed by New Age musician and former television host, John Tesh. The song, which NBC used for every telecast in the league's twelve-year history with the NBA, is today often used by NBA TV for their live game coverage. After briefly considering using the theme for its NBA coverage, ABC decided against it, and has used five theme songs in its first four years of covering the NBA.

[edit] Origins

At the conclusion of the 1990 NBA Finals, CBS, who had televised National Basketball Association games since 1973, would lose the rights to NBC. John Tesh was in his hotel room at 3 o'clock in the morning in the city of Pau, while covering the Tour de France. Tesh already had received an Emmy for his music for the Pan American Games in 1983 and composed other sports television music prior to Roundball Rock, including the theme song played during CBS' Tour de France coverage in the late 1980s. Ringtones & Downloads from: Laguna Beach, TRL, The Hills, Two-A-Days, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Danity Kane exclusively through MTVcom!.

"It just came into my head. So I called my message machine and sang the chorus. Then I called back 30 minutes later and sang the verse. " - John Tesh

When Tesh got home, he played the song that would soon become known as Roundball Rock on the piano. He also watched a NBA game and played the music to the approximate speed of a fast break (122 beats per minute). After paying $15,000 to have a Los Angeles orchestra record the song, he sent a tape to NBC and the rest is history.

[edit] Trivia

Tesh initially didn't want NBC to know that he wrote Roundball Rock. Free rock ringtones - download now.