T.I. briefly joined power forward Josh Smith of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks in the video to Grand Hustle artist Young Dro’s “Freeze Me” video in 2010. Now Tip will connect with the rest of the Atlanta Hawks when his hometown team faces off against their Southwest Division rivals, the 2011-12 NBA Champions, the Miami Heat. T.I.
“T.I. will join longtime SportSouth commentator Bob Rathbun and former Atlanta Hawk Duane Ferrell as contributing sports analyst,” Fox announced via written statement. “During his debut, T.I. will participate in live game day coverage on SportSouth during the first two quarters of the Atlanta Hawks vs. Miami Heat game airing at 7:30 p.m.”
Tip will also be available to media members before the broadcast from 6:45 pm until 7:00 pm. The Hawks appearance adds to T.I.’s growing list of publicity appearances before his Trouble Man album drops on December 18. As for the Hawks, they currently trail the Heat by one game in what should be a relatively weak Southwest Division this year.
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you do what you gotta do to stay relevant bruhh
Color commentary, Clifford? Yeesh… That “Trouble Man” album must be pretty troublesome…
nigga he likes sports ain’t a fuckin thing wrong with that
#TRAP MUZIK…..TDC-C
t.i. is FINISHED.
crime stopper cliff.
buy guns and snitch.
change lives and drive on E.
one of the biggest frauds in rap history. career is on a downward spiral. no more movies. album been in limbo since he got out prison. time came and passed. maybe he should ask for a full time gig announcing hawks games. no one’s watchign anywya.
^this bitch nigga got jokes
Trouble Man, DEC 18th!!!!
t.i. was cool. and the refs gave miami that game. i never in my life seen such f’d up calls.
true man, heat was given everything! Times like this i think nba might just be fixed
I hope rappers doing sports commentary doesn’t become a trend. Just because you popular doesn’t mean you can just do every damn thing. I mean, spend that time making your album better. This is part of the reason why music is not as good as it used to be…..rappers wanna be “businessmen” now and spread themselves too thin. Focus your energy on your field of expertise and let real young journalist and communication majors do the sports commentary.
all rappers gotta be buisnessmen if they wanna make the $$$ sadly just rapping doesnt cut it no more
King holding down this limelight is not going to have any bit of basketball stop him. I will be the first to let you know that it won’t be bringing about any basketball to keep me from balling.