Drake wants a WNBA team in Toronto

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Mark Daniell

Drake attends a preseason NBA recreation between the Toronto Raptors and the Houston Rockets on Oct. 11, 2021. Picture by Cole Burston /Getty Photographs

Might Toronto quickly be house to 2 skilled basketball groups? Drake definitely hopes so.

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The rapper and international ambassador for the Raptors took to Instagram to request a WNBA growth crew in his house metropolis.

“@WNBA I want a Toronto crew,” he wrote on his Instagram Story .

Earlier this summer time, Drake was seen in studio sporting an orange hoodie with the WNBA emblem of a lady dunking mid-air.

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Based on Sports activities Illustrated , WNBA viewership hit report numbers final season. Viewership was up 325% through the league’s opening weekend from 2020.

Drake watches the Toronto Raptors play the Washington Wizards at Scotiabank Arena on Oct. 20, 2021. — Drake watches the Toronto Raptors play the Washington Wizards at Scotiabank Area on Oct. 20, 2021. Picture by Mark Blinch /Getty Photographs

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert just lately revealed that the league is trying to broaden past its present 12-team lineup.

“I think by subsequent summer time or this time subsequent 12 months, in our twenty sixth season, we’ll be speaking in regards to the variety of groups and a listing of the place,” Engelbert advised ESPN’s Tisha Thompson and Mechelle Voepel .

“Enlargement is on the horizon,” Engelbert she added.

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Final month, Canadian-born Minnesota Lynx star Bridget Carleton tweeted that she is “manifesting a Canadian girls’s skilled basketball league within the close to future.”

Males’s professional basketball persevering with to develop in 🇨🇦… I’ve formally began manifesting a Canadian girls’s skilled basketball league within the close to future https://t.co/PpTdYHtZtM

— Bridget Carleton (@bridgecarleton) October 27, 2021

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Writing in The Undefeated , Sean Hurd mentioned that Drake’s assist of an WNBA crew might assist launch a membership in Toronto.

“The considered having to take care of Drake’s antics all summer time in addition to the NBA season ( back-to-back , if you’ll) is an thought many might not embrace, however hear me out. We noticed what the Raptors’ 2019 run didn’t only for Toronto however for all the nation of Canada.”

On social media, many individuals floated the thought of Drake utilizing a few of his wealth to affix an possession bid to convey a crew to Toronto. In any case, in response to Forbes , in 2019, Drake had a web value of $150 million.

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