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Drake Helped J. Cole Sign With Canadian Basketball Team

May 25, 2022

Los Angeles, CA – J. Cole’s hoop dreams are alive and well. After signing with Canadian Elite Basketball League’s Scarborough Shooting Stars last week, Complex did some digging and connected Cole’s north of the border business trip back to a birthday party hosted by Drake, who basically runs Canada at this point.

Nicholas “Niko” Carino is a close friend of Drake’s who is a co-founder of OVO. He also happens to be a part-owner of the Shooting Stars. Cole and Carino met up at Drake’s birthday party last year and started to talk about a potential opportunity and the rest is history.



 



“You know, Dreamville and OVO are family,” said Carino. “Drake had a birthday party in L.A. last year. The conversation was, ‘I heard you have your team.’ It organically grew from there.”

The league is set to host its season openers on May 26 with the Shooting Stars paying a visit to the Guelph Nighthawks. The 37-year-old rapper has earned the respect of his teammates in his short training camp stint prior to the season kicking off tomorrow.



— Culture Jam (@culturejam) May 13, 2022



“J. Cole, he’s really putting in the work,” forward Olu Famutimi said. “Whatever we’re doing, he’s doing probably even more. Comes in early, stays late, and his drive right now, he wants to become better and wants to be known as a guy that can really hoop.”

The Dreamville leader previously suited up for three games with the Rwanda Patriots BBC in the Basketball Africa League last year. Either way, he has the respect of his rap peers as former hooper Dave East and Fivio Foreign gave Cole his kudos for chasing his hoop dreams.



— scarborough shooting stars (@sss_cebl) February 3, 2022

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