Actually, you can call the Toronto Raptors practice facility down by the lake the OVO Athletic Centre thanks to an extended partnership between the Raptors and global recording star Drake, who has served as the club’s global ambassador for more than five seasons. “We were looking for the right opportunity and this one made sense with everything we are doing,” Raptors president Masai Ujiri told the Toronto Sunin a phone interview on Thursday afternoon. Everything really connects,” Ujiri told the Sun. “I think it’s a happy partnership that people find joy in because he is in the fabric of the Raptors. Ujiri travelled to England, where Drake was performing, to give him a ceremonial key to the Toronto facility, which originally opened in February 2016 as the BioSteel Centre.

Source: National Post March 14, 2019 17:14 UTC