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Basketball Jones is a 1973 animated short film based on the Cheech and Chong song. The cartoon was created to promote the song's release in the United States. It is about a teenager named Tyrone Shoelaces and his love of basketball. The short was designed by animator Paul Gruwell who was known at the time for The Banana Splits.
The Basketball Jones recorded a live 500th episode on January 15, 2010. On the 31st of October, 2012, The Basketball Jones combined their Video podcast on iTunes with their Audio podcast. This led to them reaching the No. 1 spot on iTunes for the number of listeners.
The music video for the song was directed by Michael Oblowitz, who had a $25,000 budget. [1] The video included cameos by hip hop groups The Fat Boys and Whodini . [ 1 ] Although Blow had wanted the video to include footage of the players mentioned in the song, the National Basketball Association would only provide clearance for use of still ...
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It was the origin of the song “Roundball Rock,” which Tesh estimates was played 12,000 times during game coverage as the NBA on NBC theme from 1990 to 2002.
"Roundball Rock" was first developed by John Tesh in July 1989 at a hotel room in Megève, France.Tesh was in France at the time covering the Tour de France for CBS. NBC had recently acquired National Basketball Association (NBA) broadcasting rights from CBS, and let Tesh know it was looking for a theme song.
Why Jones was on scout team duty has to do with his $23 million injury guarantee for 2025. If the Giants aren't going to play him over their final seven games, there's no need to take a risk and ...
An updated, more mature version of "Love Jones" was recorded in 1975 by labelmates "The Imaginations" and later the song was recorded by Doctor Ice of UTFO featuring Full Force and Cheryl Pepsii Riley. In addition, "Love Jones" was parodied as "Basketball Jones" by Cheech and Chong and Paul Gruwell in 1973. The parody was released as a single ...