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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A 13-year-old girl named Natalie Gilbert has won a contest to sing the national anthem. There she is at center court, looking nervous, in a beautiful dress, girding herself to perform in front of ...