Get back \u2014 three-time Grammy Award-winning rapper Ludacris will take the spotlight at NBA All-Star 2026 this weekend inside Intuit Dome in Inglewood<\/p>\n
The NBA announced<\/a> the headliner on Wednesday, teasing a \u201chigh-energy, in-arena performance\u201d before AT&T Slam Dunk that\u2019ll aim to \u201celevate the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n NBA All-Star Saturday tips off at 2 p.m. on NBC and Peacock.<\/p>\n Ludracris most recently performed in the Bay Area during a private concert<\/a> for the Seattle Seahawks after their Super Bowl 60 victory on Feb. 8. The rapper also made headlines last month when he dropped off the lineup for the Kid Rock-led Rock Country Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n Besides Luda, the NBA\u2019s high-profile weekend will include several other big music acts:<\/p>\n Ludacris, Shaboozey and CORTIS | Thursday, Feb. 12-Sunday, Feb. 15 | Los Angeles Convention Center | These acts will perform<\/a> as part of the NBA Crossover Concert Series. Tickets<\/a> are still available. K-pop group CORTIS will also perform during halftime at the Ruffles NBA All-Star Celebrity Game on Friday, Feb. 13.<\/p>\n Aiden Ross | Friday, Feb.13 | Intuit Dome | \u201cThe Voice\u201d season 28 winner will sing the U.S. national anthem before the Castrol Rising Stars; tip-off is at 6 p.m. <\/p>\n Chloe Bailey | Friday, Feb. 13 | The singer will perform the U.S. national anthem and another song before the NBC HBCU Classic, which starts at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n John Tesh | Sunday, Feb. 15 | Intuit Dome | The iconic music composer and on-air personality will perform \u201cRoundball Rock\u201d to introduce the 75th NBA All-Star Game, which tips off at 2 p.m. According to the NBA, this is the first time the song has been performed live inside a sports arena. It will mark the celebration of the big game\u2019s return to NBC after 24 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get back \u2014 three-time Grammy Award-winning rapper Ludacris will take the spotlight at NBA All-Star 2026 this weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3900,48,52,51,47,50,49,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-173971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-inglewood","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}