NBC Special Olympics Correspondent Snoop Dogg was at the Games, carrying the torch, taking swimming lessons with Michael Phelps, traveling by bus and train with the United States men’s basketball team.
“Man, this is a bummer right here,” Snoop told NBC’s Mike Tirico on Wednesday’s primetime broadcast of the Paris Games. “But I’m having a lot of fun.”
“Mike, I might be the MVP of the Olympics, just saying,” Snoop said.
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Snoop joined the men’s basketball team on their bus and train ride to Lille, where group stage games are being played.
It’s only natural that the hip-hop icon would play music while traveling with some of America’s best NBA players who are now at the Olympics. But Father Time waits for no one.
He first played the soundtrack to “Super Fly”, a classic by Curtis Mayfield released in 1972.
“LeBron, naturally, nodded, because he understands the old school,” Snoop said.
“But I had to change, I had to add some rap, because [22-year-old Timberwolves player] Anthony Edwards was sitting right next to me and wasn’t moving. Let me make you move,” Snoop said.
Snoop said that even though the men’s basketball players are on competing NBA teams, “I felt a lot of brotherhood, camaraderie. I felt them checking egos at the door.”
“I think they know what this is. They know that this team was formed remembering ‘The Dream Team’, the spirit of having the best of the best representing the country,” he said. “It’s not about me; It’s about us.”
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