Prior to a 2003 Trail Blazers playoff game, 13-year-old Natalie Gilbert stumbled on her words while performing the national ...

Twenty-two years after her last national anthem performance before a Portland Trail Blazers game, Natalie Gilbert was back ...

Trail Blazers coach Maurice Cheeks swooped in to assist a 13-year-old singer named Natalie Gilbert after her nerves got the ...

Natalie Gilbert returned to sing at the Moda Center 22 years after she received an assist from Cheeks while struggling with ...

Natalie Zito was back in the building that changed her life, performing a stunning rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." ...

The national anthem has become a staple of major American sporting events, and with versions sung every single night, every ...

Maurice Cheeks helped Natalie Gilbert finish the national anthem when she performed it at a Portland Trail Blazers game in ...

Before Wednesday's game vs. Knicks, the Trail Blazers gave a national anthem singer and Maurice Cheeks a touching full-circle ...

Maurice Cheeks had more than 7,000 assists in his ... he intervened to help Natalie Gilbert sing the national anthem before a Western Conference finals game. Gilbert, who was 13 at the time ...

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 gave us the ...

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 ...