Just six days after signing a three-to-six game contract with the Basketball Africa League’s Rwanda’s Patriots B.B.C., J Cole officially made his professional basketball debut on Sunday against Nigeria’s Rivers Hoopers.
You can watch J Cole play for Rwanda against Nigeria here. Fans can also catch the action on ESPN News and ESPN+.
This seems to line up with the theme of his recently released fifth studio album The Off-Season; which J Cole released as a prelude to a teased, possibly final opus, The Fall Off. There’s the burning hoop on the cover, the profile for Slam magazine, the tieback to his name-making mixtapes The Warm Up and Friday Night Lights. Basketball is after all Cole’s first love.
