NBA: New York Knicks - San Antonio Spurs in an animated format on ESPN on Christmas day in the USA

New York Knicks - San Antonio Spurs, the 2024-25 NBA regular season game, will be broadcast in an animated format on ESPN (The Walt Disney Company) channels in the United States on Wednesday 25/12/2024 (at 12 noon ET), announced the American group on 20/11/2024.

The game, presented under the name "Dunk The Halls", will feature "iconic Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale". It will be broadcast in this format on the pay-TV channel ESPN2 as well as on the Disney+ and ESPN+ streaming platforms. "The special alt-cast marks the first animated presentation of an NBA game and the first NBA game to stream on Disney," explained the group. The game will also be broadcast traditionally on ABC (free-TV), ESPN (pay-TV) and on the Disney+ and ESPN+ platforms.

"The first-of-its-kind technologyEach Spurs and Knicks player will appear as a motion-enabled, animated player. Through state-of-the-art real-time visualization technology enabled by Sony's Beyond Sports, combined with Sony's Hawk-Eye Innovations' optical tracking, fans watching…