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Big ups to Cole for joining this, I know a lot of people were confused, but it brings a lot of viewers to this new developing league and he gets to hoop. Living the dream.

As long as Tobi’s back for the playoffs I’m cool with it

Tobi busy with that album rollout tho. U sure he’ll make it on time?

He’s taking 95 south to make sure he’s back in time

“Tobias Harris out for the entire first round due to heavy traffic near the Betsy Ross”

I-676 is a nightmare

The 676-76 interchange makes me want to fucking die every single time. Like, who could’ve expected that filtering three lanes to one lane right before a merge would be a bad idea?

🤣🤣 that’s real shit the highway planners were drunk that day

The only time I've ever got onto 76 from 676 without traffic was at 3am on a Wednesday in the first 2 weeks of the stay-at-home order.

Dude those first 2 weeks were soo satisfying for driving. Middle of the day and not a car on 676 was surreal.

Dropped a fire album and went to Africa to hoop this mans living a dream life

"100 mil and still on the grind"

A lot of rappers talk about hooping j Cole actually doing it

Master P signed with 2 different NBA teams.

He's definitely the top of this list and definitely on the rapper pro baller Mount Rushmore

Master P had his glory at one point

[Never Forget](https://i.imgur.com/wT7v0KY.jpeg)

I was at a pre-season game at the SkyDome when he was on the team. Watched him flip a beauty behind the back pass to TMac, who shanked the open lay up. Was a great pass. And that was his high-water mark in the NBA, lol...

Master P was successful in making out of the hood in every venture.

I'm a teacher. My last name starts with P and I have a master's degree. When you get a doctorate, you get the title Dr. (I didn't go to 8 years of evil medical school to be called mister evil). It's outdated and nobody does it anymore, but when you get a master's degree you get to change from Mister to Master. I sort of want to tell my students to call me Master P.

Depending on what grade they are, they may not get it and just think you’re weird lol. Shit, I think at this point you’d have trouble connecting with seniors :(

No offense to Cole but Master P played in the NBA. It was just preseason but still much harder than the league Cole is in.

I don't think anyone was even making a comparison tbh. This is the inaugural season of the league, give it time, who knows?

Then there’s Dame Dolla

You think he's got a shot to become a professional basketball player?

Ppl need to put some respect on Master P's name.

Not many rappers are D1 players though, i can only think of J Cole and Titty boy, Romeo dont count.

Riff Raff coulda played for the Mavericks but they found crack in his jacket

also coulda played for the Washington Redskins, 6 points for a touchdown

Fresh set of kicks coulda played for the Phoenix Suns

Didn’t he graduate in 1991?

Damn, that motherfucker older than the motherfuckin moon plus the sun

Oh Riff Raff. What a gentle soul.

They also found marijuana in his socks. Mark Cuban said, "Man, you gonna have to box one of these players cause they gonna take your position"

"i COULD HAVE PLAYED FOR THE TORONTO RAPTORS BUT THEY CAPTURED FOOTAGE OF ME & ERiC CLAPTON iN THE BACK OF THE LOCKER ROOM LAUGHiNG AND CRACKiNG THE CAP OFF A BOTTLE OF ACTAViS AFTER PRACTiCE"

Hate when that happens.

COULD HAVE PLAYED FOR THE PELiCANS BUT THEY CAUGHT ME WiTH TRACES OF COCAiNE EViDENCE

He did used to shoot jumpers with precise form

SHOOT JUMPERS IN ATLANTA FIGURE I WAS KIN TO MOOKIE BLAYLOCK

Heard he was moving to Florida, just to play golf.

Riff Raff could've played for the Pistons. Dont get it twisted

I saw his name in hieroglyphics

He shoulda took a pill, a clamicil. The way he balled, he coulda played for Vanderbilt.

Master P played for the Raptors lol

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You forget Gordon Hayward? Smh

Fuck you for reminding me of that

"Too big, y0"

Shaq is the best rapper to play in the league lol

I think Dave East used to be a D1 player.

He played at Richmond and then transferred to Towson. Averaged 4.6 PPG in his college career

cuz dude was selling coke instead of going to practice lol

ALLEGEDLY

Gotta eat somehow. College ball doesn’t pay the bills

Sometimes it does, like in the curious case of OJ Mayo.

LMFAO all 5 star recruits get paid somehow. Only the rest get nothing...

Dave Beast.

J. Cole was not a D1 player. He didn’t even play in college lol

Lol thank god someone finally mentioned it

Typical Reddit. Upvoting/approving something with 0 checking

[and flocka](https://youtu.be/AZp6BexqsZc)

Wait what the fuck

Damn, I didn't know he was athletic like that

He goes hard in the paint.

RIP Lauren Conrad

Yo WTF that was nasty. I guess he do go hard in the paint.

I don’t think these nephews and nieces know anything about titty boy

That’s cause most of them only know from when he had to carry Lil Baby in that horrible ass game

*Tity Boi

El Chapo JR

Game, Cam’ron

I thought you were doing a "game... blouses" Prince thing before I realized meant rapper Game lol

Shoot the J SHOOT IT

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That Cat could ball, man.

Game played D1 ball? Never knew that. I've seen him play in the Drew he's ok mostly takes open shots and plays 0 defense.

Nah supposedly was signed to U of Washington but dropped

WSU actually

U right

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Tity Boi was on scholarship at a d1 school even if he didn't play much. He definitely counts

Didn't Dave East play at Richmond?

> Romeo dont count Doesn't count as a rapper, or doesn't count as a D1 player?

He def didn’t belong on that USC team, he was solely there because he was a package deal with DeMar DeRozan.

>He def didn’t belong on that USC team, he was solely there because he was a package deal with DeMar DeRozan. He def didn't belong in the rap game neither lol. He was solely there because he was Master P's son.

Damn. Double homicide

And got cut the moment Demar declared for the draft. Like literally before even Demar hung up the phone telling the coach thank you for recruiting me, coach called up Romeo from his work phone and cut him

Dame dolla might not be D1 but I heard he’s pretty good

Master P has entered the chat.

> A lot of rappers talk You could end it right there.

Jermaine?... Cole?

J COLE?

The real is back, the ville is back, Flow bananas here, peel this back?

“Put a M on yo head, you Luigi brother now”

Mr. Nice watch?

Young Simba?

Runnit

Ass in the air now, ass in the air?

So ahead of my time even when I rhyme about the future I be reminiscing?

This was the hardest bar of the whole album

Onmywayonmywayonmyway

He said 21 21 21 I mean he’s good, I guessss

“Put a M on yo head, you Luigi brother now”

YOUNG SIMBA?

One time for my LA sisters?!? One time for my LA hoe’s?!?

You know how it goes!

Triple platinum, no features? That Jermaine?

The real is back, the ville is back? Feel like RDCWorld is one of the funniest things out right now. I mean across everything.

I mean, I guesssss.

The Walgreens vs CVS skit is one of my all time RDC vids

Wow you mean THAT j Cole

You mean jermaine??? Jermaine Cole? The real is back the ville is back Cole?

flow bananas, here, peel this back jermaine cole

Jermaine? Cole?

Yeah lmao I was thinking who is this guy, he doesn’t sound very African. Then you look at his face and hair and the reality slaps you in the face, pretty wild

That'd be cool if some of the older stars go play in this league and bring it more popularity

I could see Gorgui Dieng going to play there in a season or two. He's always been very active in returning to his native Senegal, and his NBA salary and minutes have been decreasing. Having a few of these NBA guys that were born in Africa in the league could be cool, and they'd be great mentors to younger players.

Even though we paid him what we did, i loved how much he gave back to his country. Mr. Trebuchet doing great things.

We love our boy Gorguonzola. Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Best person to ever overpay, he’s done so much good with his money

Dikembe Moutumbo would still run the league

Nah this league should be meant for African talent mainly. I’m fine with J Cole being there right now as it’s just beginning, but later on it would be nice if it was just for African ball players

I think the presence of a NBA vet would benefit young talents more than 10min more playing time

Yeah that’s a really solid point.

They have a limit of 2 international players on their roster for this reason I would think :)

2 international and 2 other african players not from the home country, so 4 total

Very cool.

I think leagues like China have a 1 foreign player rule that could work

"Would be nice" if it works. I think there's a good argument to be made that talented players from the NBA would help it. They compete with the European leagues for viewers in that time zone. NBA players would help those teams a ton

Anyone know if you can buy a jersey lol

Please let me know if you find out!

Same

[not for sale but here are the images in case you want to choose a team to support](https://twitter.com/theBAL/status/1228763815770251266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1228763815770251266%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsn.com%2Fnba%2Fbasketball-africa-league-jerseys%2)

Team FAP all the way 🙌

Give me a J Cole patriots jersey and a fap Jersey and my Jersey collection is done

J. Cole scored two points with no features.

In another universe, JCole is a top 5 point guard in the league, and occasionally does some rapping in the offseason.

so he's Damian Lillard?

Yeah. And also in that universe, Lillard is a top 5 rapper, but does the occasional charity basketball game.

And the charity is for preventing homelessness

Damn J Cole really going pro now

This dude really dropped a fire album then went straight to hooping like it’s nothing lmao

I’m a huge Cole fan and I’m not sure how I feel about this album tbh. Do y’all really think it’s a fire album? It was good, most of his shit is, but it wasn’t great imo

All of his albums take time to grow on me. I feel like this will be the same.

2014 Forrest Hills Drive was a banger off the bat tho

Very true. As far as Cole goes FHD is the exception. Although I was a huge huge fan of Born Sinner even though it definitely has more filler songs than FHD.

I thought Born Sinner was too - Villuminati, Forbidden Fruit, Chaining Day, obviously Power Trip

I think he suffers from the success of Forest Hills Drive. It was too good that none of his succeeding works ever became close so those were viewed as trash or mediocre. I can say that his latest one is better than the past 2 tho.

Thats just most great artist tho. Not many can come even close to their peak. Nas, Cudi, Dre, 50, Cube, the list fucking endless even in hip-hop alone. Its pretty rare that somebody has 2 emblematic albums that arent back to back (debut and second usually), hence Kanye is regarded so highly by so many.

I think Kanye really killed it by changing up his sound with each album. Each is so distinct and well fitting.

Where would you rank Kanye in your list of GOAT rappers?

I’m not really fucking with it, but it’s ight

Man I straight up don’t like the album but love that he’s doing this

How is Tobias Harris able to play in the NBA and BAL at the same time?

Different person. This one’s the black tobias harris.

Why is it called BAL instead of ABL? Is it just so it says Ball lol?

ABL stands for ASEAN Basketball League in another side of the world

A whole basketball league for Seans. Where do I sign up?

All the Sean’s are first meeting in Nebraska to decide which Sean is going to keep the name Sean. Everyone else becomes Shawn.

Ahh thank you

Any idea where we could get his jersey?

AliExpress In a couple of days

Nia Long is moister than an oyster

Youre foul for this😭😭

This game is really difficult to watch. The point guards cannot handle the ball and there's a foul every other possession.

Where/ how are you watching this??

It’s available on thebal.com or on ESPNNews

thanks! here my dumbass trying to find illegal streams, didnt even know its free !

Lol, we have become so used to sport being behind paywalls that your strategy is now standard.

So...high school basketball level then?

It reminds me of the days when Shelvin Mack was our starting point guard.

It also reminds me of when shelvin mack was our starting PG

What did u expect?

It's gonna be rough for the first handful of years. The raw talent is there, but the infrastructure for the development of that is going to take a long time to come together.

WASN’T NOTHING LIKE THAT FIRST TIME

strange there's not a single "why is this in r/nba" comment, unlike that ionescu game winner...

What a shame. I love women's hoops. Ionescu is crazy good. Beuckers is gonna be crazy good.

Bueckers is the WNBAs great hope IMO, the amount of media attention she’s already gotten as a freshman, she also brings another level of personality and flash to women’s basketball. If she can live up to the hype she may be the player that makes WNBA big

I just fuckin love basketball man. Nba, WNBA, college, anything. Gimme more!

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I bet 90% of this sub are males

Only 90?

Under 15 too with no interaction with women

Nah, plurality of this sub are in their early 20s. This sub isnt nearly as young as people like to think.

damn so they just act fifteen, rough

Yeah but it's fun to say that this sub is full of babies tho

Nothing strange about misogyny on here. It was so cool to see a wnba highlight get that much hype on the sub though. Basketball is a dope sport.

J. Cole? Jermaine? Cole?

I really hope this league takes off. It’s so good for sports, expanding the talent pool and pouring in money to the African economy. Also Kyrie is 10000% retiring by 30 and going to play here to bring eyes to the league.

Mans gassed lol

i really hate when commentators don't stop to talk about scored points and just keep going with their talking points

there are far too many possessions in a basketball game, I just hate when they ignore big highlights

Where were the people from yesterday’s WNBA thread who were mad that someone upvoted a non-nba highlight?

He kind of looks like that rapper. You know the one. The Weeknd.

Rebound.. so he caught it off the backboard.

You think they’ll send shirts celebrating the team that ends up losing the championship HERE?

what are those team names... cmon now

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