{"id":804128,"date":"2020-02-13T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=952124"},"modified":"2020-02-13T05:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:00:27","slug":"jennifer-hudson-to-perform-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-during-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/jennifer-hudson-to-perform-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-during-nba-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hudson to Perform Tribute to Kobe Bryant During NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/10479346s.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jennifer-hudson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jennifer-hudson\" data-tag=\"jennifer-hudson\">Jennifer Hudson<\/a> has been tapped to open the 69th annual NBA All-Star game on Sunday at United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The singer\u2019s hometown performance will pay tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kobe-bryant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kobe-bryant\" data-tag=\"kobe-bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>, his daughter Gianna and their seven friends who died in a tragic helicopter crash in January.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled and Quavo will join the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-common-2020-nba-all-star-game-performers-929426\/\"> previously announced<\/a> Chicago artist Chance the Rapper to perform during Sunday\u2019s halftime show. Additional Chicago natives Common and Chance\u2019s brother and rapper Taylor Bennett will also appear over the weekend. Windy City legend Chaka Khan will sing the National Anthem prior to Sunday\u2019s tip-off.<\/p>\n<p>The star-studded weekend will include a number of additional performances. On All-Star Saturday Night, Queen Latifah will team with Chicago youth for a performance of Stevie Wonder\u2019s \u201cLove\u2019s in Need of Love Today.\u201d Later in the night, Dame D.O.L.L.A, Lil Wayne and Chicago\u2019s Jeremih will team up to perform. Friday\u2019s Rising Stars event will feature Chicago Children\u2019s Choir singing the National Anthem in advance of NBA Rising Stars event and Bennett will perform at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA All-Star weekend\u2019s events, which take place at United Center and Wintrust Arena this weekend, will be broadcast on TNT.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jennifer-hudson-kobe-bryant-tribute-nba-all-star-game-952124\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Hudson has been tapped to open the 69th annual NBA All-Star game on Sunday at United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The singer\u2019s hometown performance will pay tribute to Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and their seven friends who died in a tragic helicopter crash in January. Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled and Quavo will join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 21:55:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}