The song has spawned a "Saturday Night Live" sketch and has its own Wikipedia page, and it's now set to make it's long-awaited return to the NBA on NBC.

Despite the shuffling, not much will change for Sixers fans. Sixty nine of the team’s 82 games will air on NBC Sports Philadelphia (seven on NBC Sports Philadelphia+), with Kate Scott and Alaa Abdelnaby back to call all the action.

The NBA season tips off Tuesday with a doubleheader. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with NBA hall of famer Grant Hill about the season's key storylines and the return of NBC as official broadcast partner.

Of course, it has to help that the widely popular Chicago Bulls and their pair of three peats in the 90s were going on while NBC held broadcasting rights to the NBA. It’s a fun irony for Sixers fans that the NBA returns to NBC in the same season the team will honor the 25 th anniversary of the 2000-01 Eastern Conference championship.

The NBA returned to NBC's airwaves for the first time in 23 years on Tuesday night and made an immediate impression on basketball fans, who have

Michael Jordan made his debut as a special contributor to NBC Sports' return to NBA broadcasting on Tuesday night, saying he's doing so as a way to give back to basketball.