NBA goes Hollywood: courtside celebs to wear mics at Lakers game.(National Basketball Association)(Brief Article)

The National Basketball Assn., the most showbiz savvy of the professional leagues, has linked up with Columbia Pictures to turn tonight's NBA TV cablecast of the Lakers-Suns game into a celebrity-filled gabfest. Under the umbrella title "Hollywood & Hoops," the NBA production team will put microphones on celebs such as Ice Cube (star of Columbia's "XXX: State of the Union," which will be the presenting sponsor of the game), Penny Marshall, Donald Faison of "Scrubs," James Denton of "Desperate Housewives" and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

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