Afrigather Particular NBC Olympics correspondent Snoop Dogg has been all around the Video games, carrying the torch, getting a swim lesson from Michael Phelps, touring by bus and prepare with the U.S. males’s basketball staff.
“Man, it is a grind out right here,” Snoop instructed NBC’s Mike Tirico on Wednesday’s prime-time Paris Video games broadcast. “However I’m having a lot enjoyable.”
“Mike, I will be the MVP of the Olympics, simply saying,” Snoop mentioned.
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Snoop joined the lads’s basketball staff on its bus and prepare journey right down to Lille, the place group section video games are being performed.
It’s solely pure that the hip-hop icon would play music whereas touring with a few of the finest 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 basic by Curtis Mayfield launched in 1972.
“LeBron, naturally, nodded his head, as a result of he understands old fashioned,” Snoop mentioned.
“However I needed to swap 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 mentioned.
Snoop mentioned that despite the fact that the lads’s basketball gamers are on competing groups within the NBA, “I felt lots of brotherhood, of camaraderie. I felt them ego-checking themselves on the door.”
“I feel they know what that is. They know that this staff was put collectively paying homage to ‘The Dream Group,’ the spirit of getting the perfect of the perfect symbolize the nation,” he mentioned. “It’s not about me; it’s about we.”
Phil Helsel
Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC Information.
