Toronto basketball team signs rap superstar J. Cole
The Scarborough Capturing Stars of the Canadian Elite Basketball League could have an attention-grabbing rollcall when asserting its roster this season.
Chart-topping North Carolina rapper Jermaine Lamarr Cole — higher often known as J.Cole — has signed with the growth outfit, the league introduced Thursday.
“BREAKING: @sss–cebl have signed 6’3 guard, @JColeNC. He final performed professionally in @theBAL,” a tweet from the CEBL learn.
Cole performed final season for the Rwanda-based Patriots Basketball Club within the Basketball Africa League, an NBA-run 12-team league within the African continent.
Cole averaged 1.7 factors and 1.7 rebounds in a bit over quarter-hour per recreation in three video games with Patriots BBC.
He joins a Scarborough staff that might be taking part in its inaugural season after being introduced as a brand new CEBL growth membership final summer time.
The Capturing Stars are part-owned by Nicholas (Niko) Carino, one of many co-founders of famed clothes and way of life model OVO (October’s Very Personal).
Among the many employees of the Capturing Stars are Jamaal Magloire, a former NBA participant and Toronto Raptors basketball growth advisor and neighborhood ambassador who’s the staff’s vice chairman and senior adviser, in addition to Brady Heslip, a former sharpshooting Canadian nationwide staff member, who’s the membership’s common supervisor.
Cole, 37, will doubtless need to step away from the staff for a lot of the season.
J. Cole is having fairly the weekend with not solely the Friday launch of his album, “The Off-Season,” but additionally his debut within the Basketball African League. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Pictures by way of CNN)
The Capturing Stars’ first recreation is on Could 26 as they go to the Guelph Nighthawks. Their first residence recreation is June 4 in opposition to the Hamilton Honey Badgers.
After that, there’s another recreation, June 7, at residence versus the Newfoundland Growlers earlier than Cole would be capable of play previous to occurring tour.
Cole is to start touring on June 10 in New York. When he begins his tour, Scarborough will nonetheless have 15 extra video games left to play.
The CEBL is a 10-team skilled basketball league in Canada that performs its season through the summer time months.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Could 19, 2022.
