Drake is the global ambassador for the former NBA Champion, Toronto Raptors, but wants more for his city with the addition of a WNBA team.
Before the pandemic hit the world, Drake would be seen at Raptors home games on the regular and was a big supporter when the team entered into the NBA Finals. “I need a Toronto team,” the rap superstar posted in an Instagram story Wednesday morning.
Drake wants to see WNBA games in Toronto 👏 pic.twitter.com/hMNkwEP1Um
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 3, 2021
According to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, formal expansion talks are right around the corner.
“I suspect by next summer or this time next year, in our 26th season, we’ll be talking about the number of teams and a list of where,” she told ESPN’s Tisha Thompson and Mechelle Voepel in October.
According to Sports Illustrated, WNBA viewership hit record numbers last season. Viewership was up 325% during the league’s opening weekend from 2020 and, according to a 2020 Nielsen Sports study, interest in the WNBA increased by 31.0 percent year over year amongst Canadian sports fans and 50.0 percent amongst the general population.
Check out the reactions below to Drake’s IG post.
He got enough money to start one if he wanted to
He know that they gonna lose a lot of money tho pic.twitter.com/Up9dt5coYh— Carson Palmer (@Carsonlphs) November 3, 2021
Houston , one of the biggest fan bases in sports, couldn’t even keep around a 4 time champ of a team.
Also in general the WNBA loses money every year as a whole— Carson Palmer (@Carsonlphs) November 3, 2021
WHO TAKES THE WNBA SERIOUS
— Anthony Davis ➐ (@AntsDavis23) November 3, 2021
😂😂😂
— Renato Maló (@maxkote_c_clack) November 3, 2021
