The NBA soundtrack for a decade has remained etched in stone for all-time. It conjures up memories of hard-nosed, in-your-face, nastiness at every turn.
Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Reggie Miller, Charles Barkley and even the tail-end of Magic Johson and Larry Bird‘s career were put front-and-center when the NBA TV rights switched from CBS to NBC for the 1990-91 season.
NBC owned NBA rights from 1955 through 1962, but, come on; nothing compares to the golden age. If CBS benefited during the rebirth of the 1980s, NBC ran with the explosion a decade later.