Hip-hop star Drake finally met his crush, ESPN analyst Doris Burke, at a Toronto Raptors NBA game on Wednesday evening.
The Toronto-bred rapper garnered much media attention recently after he was spotted courtside at a Raptors game wearing a sweatshirt with Burke’s face on the front of it. The rapper has since made no secret of his ‘woman crush’ on Burke, saying: ‘I think she’s a stunning woman, incredible at what she does. I wish she was here tonight.’
The two finally met at Wednesday’s game at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Drake, sitting courtside watching the Raptors take on the Boston Celtics, approached Burke, who was calling the basketball game on ESPN.
Drake kissed Burke on the cheek and exchanged a hug with the TV analyst before holding her hands and chatting with her for a few moments.
Burke later revealed that she was very ‘appreciative’ of Drake’s kind words, saying to fellow analyst Mike Been that ‘… he made my life a hell of a lot more fun for a couple of weeks.’@Drake dinner is on ❤️️— Doris Burke (@heydb) November 17, 2016
Who is Doris Burke?
Doris Burke is a basketball analyst for ESPN and ABC.
Burke was born in West Islip, New York on November 24, 1965.
After graduating from Providence College, she started her broadcasting career in 1990 as an analyst for her alma mater. She soon began covering women’s and men’s college basketball and later offered WNBA coverage on ESPN starting in 1997.
In 2017, after years of covering the NBA Finals, WNBA and college basketball, Burke became the first woman to become a regular season NBA analyst on ESPN.
In February 2018, Burke was selected to enter the Basketball Hall of Fame as the recipient of the 2018 Curt Gowdy Media Award in recognition of her long and often groundbreaking broadcasting career.
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