SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utah native and Grammy nominee Jewel, along with Post Malone and actors Vin Diesel and Ben Affleck, will be among the performers at this weekend´s NBA All-Star events in Salt Lake City.
Jewel will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the All-Star Game on Sunday, Diesel will be welcoming fans and Post Malone will perform a medley after LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo draft their teams for the game.
The halftime show will feature three Nigerian artists – Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and producer Burna Boy, Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated singer Tems and rapper Rema – doing an Afrobeats-themed performance.
Once the halftime show ends, the NBA will host a celebration commemorating James passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar earlier this month to become the league´s career scoring leader.
Jully Black will sing the Canadian national anthem before the game.
Affleck, who stars in the upcoming film “Air” – the story about how Sonny Vaccaro signed Michael Jordan to a Nike deal – will introduce the teams before the All-Star Celebrity Game on Friday night.
Vin Diesel, a cast member in the upcoming film “Fast X,” peers over his sunglasses at photographers at the trailer launch for the film, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Utah-based group The Bonner Family will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the Rising Stars game on Friday, then again on Saturday – along with “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” sometimes referred to as the Black national anthem – at the NBA HBCU Classic college basketball game between Southern and Grambling State.
Vin Diesel, a cast member in the upcoming film “Fast X,” poses at the trailer launch for the film, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
