Special NBC Olympics correspondent Snoop Dogg has been everywhere in the Video games, carrying the torch, getting a swim lesson from Michael Phelps, touring by bus and practice with the U.S. males’s basketball staff.
“Man, it is a grind out right here,” Snoop informed NBC’s Mike Tirico on Wednesday’s prime-time Paris Video games broadcast. “However I’m having a lot enjoyable.”
“Mike, I would be the MVP of the Olympics, simply saying,” Snoop stated.
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Snoop joined the boys’s basketball staff on its bus and practice journey all the way down to Lille, the place group phase games are being performed.
It’s solely pure that the hip-hop icon would play music whereas touring with among the greatest NBA gamers in America who are actually within the Olympics. However Father Time waits for nobody.
He at first performed the “Tremendous Fly” soundtrack, a traditional by Curtis Mayfield launched in 1972.
“LeBron, naturally, nodded his head, as a result of he understands old style,” Snoop stated.
“However I needed to change it up, I needed to placed on some rap, as a result of [22-year-old Timberwolves player] Anthony Edwards was sitting proper subsequent to me, and he’s not transferring. Let me get him to maneuver,” Snoop stated.
Snoop stated that though the boys’s basketball gamers are on competing groups within the NBA, “I felt quite a lot of brotherhood, of camaraderie. I felt them ego-checking themselves on the door.”
“I believe they know what that is. They know that this staff was put collectively harking back to ‘The Dream Team,’ the spirit of getting the very best of the very best signify the nation,” he stated. “It’s not about me; it’s about we.”
