Red Panda Made Her Triumphant Return At Prime's New Studio And Blew Richard Sherman's Mind

Thursday nighttime was a typical 1 for Amazon's ever expanding beingness successful nan world of sports broadcasting. Yes, they aired nan Chargers' ascendant Thursday Night Football win complete nan Vikings. And yes, nan show did service arsenic a sneak preview astatine nan caller workplace that will service arsenic nan nervus halfway for nan studio's caller sum of nan NBA (which originates Friday night). However, nan clear astir important improvement was nan return of Red Panda.

The beloved halftime performer, whose sanction is Rong Niu, put connected a show aft nan TNF broadcast, pinch overmuch of Prime Video's roster of analysts coming for nan occasion. Former shot stars for illustration Ryan Fitzpatrick, Richard Sherman and Tony Gonzalez joined pinch their caller NBA counterparts—Blake Griffin, Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash among them—to watch nan fable astatine work.

And a fable Red Panda remains. While balancing connected her unicycle pinch 1 foot, she flipped a stack of bowls, onto her head—a instrumentality that has made her a beloved halftime show institution. The Prime Video analysts mislaid it, pinch Fitzpatrick and Sherman taking disconnected connected a tally astir nan studio.

All joking aside, location was immoderate added value to Red Panda's return to nan unicycle.

Niu took clip disconnected aft suffering a scary autumn from nan unicycle astatine a WNBA crippled successful July which resulted successful a fractured wrist that required surgery. She vowed that she would return successful a connection issued nan adjacent day.

Basketball returned to our lives pinch nan commencement of nan NBA play this week, and it appears that Red Panda is healed and fresh to bring backmost her iconic show on pinch it.

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