Sports, Music, and Inspiration This Weekend

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Andra Day and Common‘s inspirational anthem “Stand Up for Something” has earned the tandem a 2018 Grammy nod and an Academy Award nomination. For the 2018 NBA All-Star Saturday Night event, Day and Common will take the stage to perform their anthemic cut from the 2017 film Marshall, the NBA announced on Thursday (Feb. 1).

The performance will take place in between the competitions for the annual Saturday night challenge events, which includes the Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest and Slam Dunk Contest. In celebration of Black History Month, players from the NBA and WNBA will join Andra Day and Common for the performance.

For more go to: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8097586/andra-day-common-2018-nba-all-star-performance

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