Ask the average Toronto Raptors fan and they’ll tell you that looking to see if Drake is sitting courtside at home games has become as automatic as Raptors play-by-play announcer Matt Devlin shouting out Canadian cities when Fred VanVleet hits a three-pointer from deep.
“And my city love me like DeMar DeRozan,” raps Drake on his 2021 track “Lemon Pepper Freestyle.” The line was a nod to the much-beloved former Raptor, now in the midst of an MVP-worthy season with the Chicago Bulls. But it was also a line packed with a lot of truth, which comes to life during every NBA game in Toronto.