National Basketball Association

Nets play Houston's Super Bowl anthem

Published Feb. 15, 2012 12:00 a.m. ET

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The New Jersey Nets honored the late Whitney Houston by playing her rendition of ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' from the 1991 Super Bowl before their game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night.

The Newark-born singer died in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday at the age of 48. Her funeral will be Saturday in Newark at the New Hope Baptist Church, where she sang as a child. She will be buried in Fair View Cemetery in Westfield, where her father, John Russell Houston Jr., was buried in 2003.

Houston's stirring rendition of the national anthem came at the time of the first Gulf War.