As Drake continues to dominate 2017 with the release of his album, More Life, big things continue to pop off for the Toronto superstar. Drizzy has officially announced on Twitter that he will be hosting the first ever NBA Awards on Monday, June 26.
The inaugural awards show will be airing on TNT that Monday at 9:00 pm EST. It will be held in New York City at Basketball City, located at Pier 36.
Hosting first-ever NBA Awards on TNT, June 26th – tune in. pic.twitter.com/oGnXALihkq
— Drizzy (@Drake) April 25, 2017
The NBA awards is set to be a grand evening of honoring the league’s top performers in a large variety of categories including Kia NBA Most Valuable Player, Kia NBA Rookie of the Year, Kia NBA Sixth Man Award, Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Kia NBA Most Improved Player, and NBA Coach of the Year.
There will be many other categories that have been voted in by the fans which will be announced during TNT’s Inside The NBA on Thursday, April 27. In addition, the awards show will announce their yearly All-Teams.
In January, he leaked the news about his newly acquired hosting duties when he was a guest on University of Kentucky coach John Calpari’s podcast.
“I’m actually producing and hosting the first annual NBA Awards this year. I get to take the reigns on it,” he tells Calpari in the interview. “The ESPYs let me do great things, and I thank them a lot for that. Usually award shows sometimes are a bit restricted. But they let me do a lot at the ESPYs, so we’ll just expand on that concept.”
“I love hosting. I love being in a room full of iconic, legendary people that I look up to and having that pressure of having to make them laugh and enjoy their evening,” he added.
Over the years, Drake have managed to develop a long and fruitful history with the NBA and with the sports world in general. In 2014, he hosted the ESPY awards and received rave reviews. He’s also the ambassador of the Toronto Raptors and hosts “Drake Night” every year in his hometown of the “6”. It easy to assume that with him as producer of the show, it will certainly be an evening we would not want to miss.
More details will be coming soon within the advancing weeks.
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