Try as you might, there is no escaping Drake in these NBA playoffs. Even Golden State forward Draymond Green, who was on the receiving end of some of the rapper’s trash talk during Thursday’s Game 1, has accepted it.
The Raptors’ Toronto-born global ambassador has drawn his fair share of headlines over the course of this run to the Finals. And the attention seem to come to a head when Drake gave Raptors coach Nick Nurse a brief shoulder massage during Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final against Milwaukee. The league spoke to the Raptors about Drake’s conduct, with commissioner Adam Silver saying there are “appropriate lines that shouldn’t be crossed in terms of how a competing team is addressed — or the officials, for that matter.