Who better than one of hip hop’s biggest acts and Kentucky basketball fan, Drake, as a celebrity representative of the Suns?
It’s not that much fun being a Suns fan right now. We have the draft to look forward to, and that maybe Ryan McDonough will make some spectacular moves in the offseason, but other than that, we’ve been seeing a lot of losing. Sure, that has its upside, but at the end of the day, it’s tough at the bottom.
Despite the dismal state of the team, Phoenix still has some fun players. Lately, those players have included young guards Tyler Ulis and Devin Booker who have grabbed the spotlight from Eric Bledsoe and sixth-man Brandon Knight after they were shut down for the remainder of the season. Booker and Ulis, along with Marquese Chriss, are about the only sizzle left in an otherwise dull and depleted Suns team. If these young guns are what the team needs to start being competitive in the next few years, there’s only one thing missing: a celebrity fan.
Aubrey Graham, or ‘Drake,’ or ‘Drizzy,’ or ‘Champagne Papi,’ is HOT right now. Fresh off his hit album “Views” which garnered him two Grammy wins (even though Twitter wasn’t having it), has also just released his new playlist “More Life” which is already breaking streaming records. This, of course, is just another in the long list of releases that the Canadian artist has churned out in his illustrious career. Drizzy is as well known for his music as he is for his fandom (albeit bandwagon) of the University of Kentucky basketball team and his hometown Toronto Raptors, a team he has a financial partnership with and even helped design new jerseys for in 2015. (Yikes, this might be harder than I thought.)
The Suns are slowly on the rise, and the bandwagon could be barreling right towards our man.
Here are five reasons why Suns Nation needs to recruit Drizzy as our next celebrity superfan.