Maurice Cheeks helped Natalie Gilbert finish the national anthem when she performed it at a Portland Trail Blazers game in 2002. She returned to sing it again more than 20 years later.

The Portland Trail Blazers brought back Natalie Gilbert, now Natalie Zito, to sing the national anthem prior to a game against the New York Knicks on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

Twenty-two years after her last national anthem performance before a Portland Trail Blazers game, Natalie Gilbert was back Wednesday night to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with Maurice Cheeks in ...

Singer Natalie Gilbert (now Natalie Zito) stumbled over the lyrics while performing the anthem at age 13 before a 2003 playoff game.

Maurice Cheeks helped Natalie Gilbert finish the national anthem when she performed it at a Portland Trail Blazers game in 2002. She returned to sing it again more than 20 years later.

Natalie Gilbert (Zito) joins the Trail Blazers broadcast after making her return to the microphone after 22 years.

When Walsall Ladies footballer Natalie Gilbert had a stroke at the age of 25, it left her "like a baby again". Unable to speak and numb on her left side, Gilbert says she didn't always believe she ...

Bill Oram’s commentary on national anthem singer Natalie Gilbert (now Natalie Zito) was for me, in Oram’s words, a “tonic for our times,” (“Bill Oram: Natalie Gilbert’s anthem reprise ...