TNT Sports will tip off its 41st consecutive yr of NBA protection on Tuesday, Oct. 22, with the return of the fan-focused NBA on TNT American Express Road Show in Boston, MA., house of the NBA Champions the Boston Celtics.
Themed round TNT’s fashionable Sports Emmy Award-winning Inside the NBA introduced by Kia, the free and family-friendly fan expertise — with doorways opening at 4:30 p.m. ET at City Hall Plaza — will characteristic a pregame musical efficiency by Country Music’s Hottest Rising Star Shaboozey and post-game efficiency by Global Pop Sensation Benson Boone. American Express Card Members could have entry to a devoted precedence entrance at City Hall Plaza.
The NBA on TNT American Express Road Show will probably be anchored by TNT’s Inside the NBA studio group of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Shaquille O’Neal offering reside pregame, halftime, and postgame protection from the venue.
Additional activations onsite will embrace:
- The Studio J Experience introduced by American Express, which incorporates customized NBA on TNT recreations like inexperienced room, studio desk, props, and a wardrobe division with customized Road Show fan giveaways, whereas provides final. American Express Card Members may also have the ability to entry a precedence line for the recreated wardrobe division and photograph alternatives inside The Studio J Experience;
- NBA on TNT’s reside recreation protection will probably be proven all through the occasion on video partitions following the pregame Shaboozey efficiency and post-game Boone efficiency;
- Kia’s 2025 Telluride, a spacious, 7-seater SUV with excessive towing capability and all-terrain tires;
- House of Highlights’ The Deep 3 podcast reside;
- Connecting Changes Everything for followers on the AT&T Half Court, which is able to characteristic organized video games, giveaways, and a chance for a fortunate fan to have an opportunity to sit courtside with Bleacher Report’s Courtside Correspondent.
NBA on TNT will tip off the 2024-25 NBA common season with a blockbuster NBA Opening Night doubleheader that includes NBA Champions the Boston Celtics internet hosting the New York Knicks at TD Garden at 7:30 p.m. ET adopted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in opposition to the Los Angeles Lakers at 10 p.m. ET. Both video games will air on TNT. All TNT Sports’ NBA common season and postseason video games, in addition to pre and postgame protection, may also be accessible to stream by way of the B/R Sports Add-On tier on Max. For extra data, please go to www.nbaontntopeningnight.com.
[1] American Express Card Members and up to three (3) accompanied company might get hold of entry to the NBA on TNT American Express Roadshow on October 22nd, 2024, by displaying a legitimate eligible American Express Card on the Card Member Priority Entrance situated on Congress St. American Express Prepaid Cards will not be eligible. Venue phrases and insurance policies apply. American Express doesn't function the Card Member Priority Entrance. TNT Sports reserves the appropriate to deny entrance to any Card Member or visitor in its sole and absolute discretion.
[2] American Express Card Members and up to three (3) accompanied company might get hold of entry to the “Wardrobe Dept.” and “The Set” places inside the Studio J Experience introduced by American Express at NBA on TNT American Express Roadshow on October 22nd, 2024, by displaying a legitimate eligible American Express Card on the Card Member Priority Queue. American Express Prepaid Cards will not be eligible. Valid occasion ticket required for entry. Venue phrases and insurance policies apply. American Express doesn't function the Card Member Priority Queue. TNT Sports reserves the appropriate to deny entrance to any Card Member or visitor in its sole and absolute discretion.
About TNT Sports
TNT Sports is a world chief in the supply of premium sports activities content material. The TNT Sports U.S. portfolio contains expansive, multi-platform partnerships with the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, National Hockey League, United States Soccer Federation, Mountain West and, beginning in 2025, NASCAR, Roland-Garros and the BIG EAST. Owned and operated platforms are highlighted by Bleacher Report, the #1 digital vacation spot for younger sports activities followers, together with House of Highlights, HighlightHER, Golf Digest, and a full suite of digital and social portfolio manufacturers. Additionally, TNT Sports co-manages NBA Digital — comprised of NBA TV, NBA.com, NBA LEAGUE Pass, the NBA App and NBAGLEAGUE.com — in addition to NCAA.com and NCAA March Madness Live. TNT Sports in Europe and the Republic of Ireland contains partnerships with the NBA, Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UFC, WWE and extra, in addition to much-loved manufacturers Eurosport, Global Mountain Bike Network (GMBN) and multi-sport programming and content material on discovery+ and Discovery’s free-to-air TV networks.
About Benson Boone
Benson Boone's intimate, diaristic pop songs are continuously evolving as he rapidly turns into a world hitmaker. From his acclaimed 2024 debut album Fireworks & Rollerblades, Boone's 3x-Platinum viral smash hit “Beautiful Things”—which is the most-streamed music in the world this yr to date—rapidly soared to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, spent 7 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Global 200, and hit #1 at each Top 40 and Hot AC radio. In addition to touchdown him a spot opening for Taylor Swift's ERAS Tour and performing with Lana Del Rey at Hangout Festival, the success earned him a efficiency on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, the place he received Best Alternative and acquired three extra nominations, together with Best New Artist. In 2023, Boone was named MTV's Global PUSH Artist for October, whereas his PULSE EP generated tens of thousands and thousands of streams. PULSE was preceded by his 2022 piano ballad “Before You” and the Walk Me Home… EP, which included his breakout single “GHOST TOWN” — Boone's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. It additionally turned his first RIAA-certified Gold file, adopted by “In The Stars,” which is now licensed Platinum. First found by Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds, Boone was rapidly signed to Reynolds’ Night Street Records in partnership with Warner Records in 2021. He is continuous to attain new heights, with almost 7 billion profession streams to date and offered out tour dates throughout the globe.
About Shaboozey
Shaboozey is constructing his personal world, carving his lane in the choice nation and hip-hop house. Born to mother and father of Nigerian descent and raised in the small city of Woodbridge, VA, the multi-faceted artist grew up on an eclectic mixture of music encompassing traditional hip-hop and R&B, to nation and blues icons like Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks, and Lead Belly, to grasp lyricists, resembling Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. A real crossover artist, he started his epic rise to stardom with two standout options on Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER—the one artist with a number of appearances on the album. His newest physique of labor, the critically acclaimed masterpiece Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going, debuted in the highest 5 of the Billboard 200 and was praised by The New York Times for “bring[ing] hip-hop grit to country” and by Rolling Stone for “honoring country tradition and moving it forward.” The album’s smash single “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” has achieved 5X RIAA- platinum certification, holds the longest reign of 2024 at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and has damaged information dominating Billboard’s Country Airplay and Mediabase/ Country Aircheck charts. The single has collected over a billion streams throughout DSPs, propelled him into mainstream stardom, cemented itself as 2024’s music of the summer season, and made historical past with Beyoncé’s “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM,” as the first Black artists to score back-to-back leaders on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Staying true to his Virginian roots, Shaboozey strives to proceed the area’s long-standing custom of prolific creativity, this time by increasing the scope of latest hip-hop and introducing fashionable Americana to a world viewers. He’ll quickly embark on his nationwide, sold-out “Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going” headline fall tour adopted by a run of enviornment performances as help for Jelly Roll’s “Beautifully Broken Tour.”
Media Contacts:
TNT Sports
Tyger Danger
