The NBA will air a Christmas Day sport with Disney characters

For those who can’t get your youngsters to take a seat via one of many 5 NBA video games airing on Christmas Day, tune into Disney+, ESPN+ or ESPN2 for a particular Disney-fied model. introduced that it’ll air a “Dunk the Halls” broadcast of the San Antonio Spurs versus the New York Knicks that includes animated Disney characters.

The published begins at 12PM jap. For those who simply need to watch the sport performed by common, boring people, that may even air on Disney+ and ESPN+ in addition to ABC and ESPN.

“Dunk the Halls” will use Sony’s Past Sports activities expertise to show Madison Sq. Backyard into Principal Avenue USA from the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. The sport may even characteristic appearances from basic Disney characters like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy and Donald and Daisy Duck in addition to Santa and his elves from the animated Disney quick Prep & Touchdown.

That is the primary time the NBA has organized to air a sport with animated characters and graphic overlays. It’s additionally the most recent sport in a brand new pattern of blending reside sports activities occasions with a community’s signature cartoon characters. ESPN+, Disney+ and the NFL+ app will air another model of the Bengals-Cowboys sport on December 9 that includes digital characters and scenes from . ESPN3’s broadcasts use expertise designed by Second Spectrum to create augmented graphics that monitor gamers actions and supply actual time updates.