The NBA is bringing its Christmas Day festivities to Walt Disney World, with the San Antonio Spurs facing the New York Knicks at the Magic Kingdom. This special game will include animated characters like Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Wembanyama, with Goofy and Donald Duck substituting for Knicks players and Mickey and Minnie joining the Spurs. The game will be televised on ABC and ESPN, streamed on Disney+ and ESPN+, and also feature an animated alt-cast on ESPN2 and Disney+.
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“Basketball courts often have the ability to make a normal environment look special, but in Disney it can only turn out incredible,” Wembanyama said in an ESPN video promoting his Christmas debut. Walt Disney World hosted real NBA games in 2020, when the league set up there to complete its season that had been suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those games were played at the ESPN Wide World of Sports.
“So, this is a level of detail that we’ve never gone, that we’ve never done on any other broadcast,” said David Sparrgrove, the senior director of creative animation for ESPN. Wembanyama’s presence is one reason the Spurs-Knicks matchup, the leadoff to the NBA’s five-game Christmas slate, was the obvious choice to do the animated telecast. The noon EST start means it will begin in the early evening in France and should draw well there. Also, it comes after ABC televises the “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade” for the previous two hours, providing more time to hype the broadcast.
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