#021: Basketball and Hip-Hop

Full Court Press the Podcast

Why is it that basketball and hip-hop share such a tight and unbreakable bond? Why do basketball players want to be singers or rappers? And why do rappers or singers want to be basketball players? Join Boni and Felix as the two goons explore the yin and yang that is basketball and hip-hop.

• NBA Fact: If Stephen Curry went 0/500 on 3-pointers right now and then retired, he would still have a higher 3PT % than Ray Allen
  
• Positive Affirmation: I am choosing to longer stress about the past or worry about the future. I am living in this very moment and will continue to be mindful of the present.
  
• Boni and Felix discuss the historic NBA milestone by the one and only Russell Westbrook and answer the following questions:

1. How do you measure or how do you personally determine the greatest point guard of all time?
   
2. Do you think Russell Westbrook will be the greatest player to never win a championship?
   
3. As Westbrook passes Oscar Robertson for most the most triple-doubles in NBA history, will anyone else break this record? Or any other records for that matter?

• Boni and Felix answer and explore the following questions/prompts when discussing basketball's relationship to hip-hop:

1. Why do NBA players collaborate with hip-hop artists nowadays?
   
2. Do you remember the greatest streetball game that never happened?
   
3. What decade do you think was predominantly impacted by rap/hip-hop culture?
   
4. What is your favourite rap song that mentions a basketball player?
   
5. Which NBA players are decent rappers or singers?
   
6. Will J. Cole playing professional basketball in Africa for Rwanda's Patriots in the Basketball Africa League spark interest for other hip-hop artists to follow suit?

• Boni and Felix end the episode with a game where Felix gives Boni two NBA players' names who have worn the same jersey number. Boni decides who he thinks had the better career overall.

References:
Greatest Streetball Game that Never Happened
Roc Nation; where sports management meets entertainment
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