{"id":87413,"date":"2024-11-20T23:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/the-nba-will-air-a-christmas-day-game-with-disney-characters\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T23:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:01:15","slug":"the-nba-will-air-a-christmas-day-game-with-disney-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/the-nba-will-air-a-christmas-day-game-with-disney-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA will air a Christmas Day game with Disney characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you can\u2019t get your kids to sit through one of the five NBA games airing on Christmas Day, tune into Disney+, ESPN+ or ESPN2 for a special Disney-fied version. <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/espnpressroom.com\/us\/press-releases\/2024\/11\/slam-dunk-disney-espn-and-the-nba-team-up-to-present-dunk-the-halls-the-first-real-time-animated-nba-game-san-antonio-spurs-vs-new-york-knicks-on-christmas-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> announced that it will air a \u201cDunk the Halls\u201d broadcast of the San Antonio Spurs versus the New York Knicks featuring animated Disney characters.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast starts at 12PM eastern. If you just want to watch the game played by regular, boring humans, that will also air on Disney+ and ESPN+ as well as ABC and ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDunk the Halls\u201d will use Sony\u2019s Beyond Sports technology to turn Madison Square Garden into Main Street USA from the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. The game will also feature appearances from classic Disney characters like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy and Donald and Daisy Duck as well as Santa and his elves from the animated Disney short <em>Prep &amp; Landing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-iframe-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"0434a48b-652c-5cb1-bbcc-fd78d0613f39\">\n<div class=\"caas-iframe youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\" data-type=\"youtube\">\n<blockquote data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFtaqoLJ2D0?si=Yfrbxn2PH2-8FhV2\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><p><noscript><iframe title=\"Dunk the Halls\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFtaqoLJ2D0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the first time the NBA has arranged to air a game with animated characters and graphic overlays. It\u2019s also the latest game in a new trend of mixing live sports events with a network\u2019s signature cartoon characters. ESPN+, Disney+ and the NFL+ app will air an alternative version of the Bengals-Cowboys game on December 9 featuring virtual characters and scenes from <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/streaming\/the-simpsons-will-join-monday-night-football-on-espn-and-disney-202238589.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Simpsons;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em><\/em><\/a>. ESPN3\u2019s <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-03-01-second-spectrum-full-court-press-espn3-broadcast.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Full Court Press;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> broadcasts use technology designed by Second Spectrum to create augmented graphics that track players movements and provide real time updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/streaming\/the-nba-will-air-a-christmas-day-game-with-disney-characters-224921665.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can\u2019t get your kids to sit through one of the five NBA games airing on Christmas Day, tune into Disney+, ESPN+ or ESPN2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadget"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}