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 ...

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

A little girl who needed Maurice Cheeks' help to sing the national anthem at a Portland Trail Blazers game in 2003 had a ...

In a heartwarming moment, Natalie Gilbert returned to sing the national anthem at a Portland Trail Blazers game, 22 years after struggling as a 13-year-old. Maurice Cheeks, who helped her then ...

When he played in the NBA, Maurice Cheeks was a quietly brilliant point guard. When he was with Philadelphia, the 76ers featured Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Andrew Toney, Doug Collins, Darryl Dawkins ...

Maurice Cheeks is a Hall of Fame point guard ... the then-Trail Blazers HC rushed over to encourage and help a 13-year-old national anthem singer named Natalie Gilbert, who was visibly nervous ...

True to form, Maurice Cheeks gamely plowed through most of his ... and the touching moment 20 years later when he rescued a struggling national anthem singer. Now he’s moved us all again.

Somehow Maurice Cheeks always seemed to know a teammate ... he rescued a struggling national anthem singer named Natalie Gilbert? Yet the butterflies’ wings always seemed to flap at fortuitous ...

Hall of Famer Maurice Cheeks remembers coaching the Trail Blazers when a young singer forgot the words to the national anthem and he came in for the save.