NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin will be part of the Atlanta Hawks-Charlotte Bobcats telecast on Wednesday night.
Hamlin,
who will race in the Daytona 500 on Feb. 24 on FOX, will sit in with
Bobcats analysts Steve Martin and Dell Curry during the first quarter of
the game in Charlotte, then joins the Hawks team of Bob Rathbun and
Dominique Wilkins in the second quarter.
The game will air on SportSouth, with the Bobcats LIVE and Hawks LIVE pregame shows beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Hamlin
is entering his eighth season in the Sprint Cup Series, winning 22
races, including five last season when he finished sixth in the points
standings. The Virginia native has been no lower than ninth in the
points in each of the last five years, including 2010 when he was
second.
The FOX Sports regional networks serving the Southeast – FOX Sports
South, FOX Sports Tennessee, FOX Sports Carolinas and SportSouth –
collectively reach more than 12.9 million cable and satellite households
in seven states across the Southeast. They are the television home of
the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Carolina Hurricanes, Charlotte
Bobcats, Memphis Grizzlies, Nashville Predators, New Orleans Hornets,
and Indiana Pacers, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference, Conference
USA, Southeastern Conference, and Big 12 Conference, and offer expanded
coverage of the University of Kentucky, University of South Carolina
and University of Tennessee. Combined, the four networks produce more
than 800 live local events each year. For more information, please visit
FOXSportsSouth.com, FOXSportsTennessee.com, and FOXSportsCarolinas.com.
