Go into any locker room in the NBA… actually, go into any locker room in the country and you’ll hear some Meek Mill. Some Jigga. Some Drake. Music and basketball. The NBA and hip-hop. It all goes together.
With the season in full swing, we figured it was time to show off a few of the artists your favorite players are currently listening to. As the calendar pushes closer to Christmas (Eds. note: the NBA schedule that day is incredible — Bulls/Nets at noon, Thunder/Knicks at 2:30, Heat/Lakers at 5:00, Rockets/Spurs at 8:30 and then finally Clippers/Warriors at 10:30 ET.), these are the jams NBA guys will be listening to instead of “Silent Night.”
Check out the list below.
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Atlanta Hawks
KYLE KORVER – Alert312
LOUIS WILLIAMS – Meek Mill “Dreams and Nightmares (Intro)”
MIKE SCOTT – Future and Migos
JEFF TEAGUE – Jay Z “Oceans”
JOHN JENKINS – Drake ft. Rick Ross “Lord Knows”
SHELVIN MACK – Jay Z “A Star is Born”
PAUL MILLSAP – Lil Wayne “Right Above It”
DeMARRE CARROLL – Young Jeezy “Thug Motivation”
GUSTAVO AYON – Alejandro Fernandez
DENNIS SCHRODER – Meek Mill
PERO ANTIC – Black Eyed Peas “I Got a Feelin'”
ADONIS THOMAS – Future and Yo Gotti
DAVID LIGHTY – Jay-Z and Kanye West and Wale
JAMES JOHNSON – Drake “Started From the Bottom”
Cleveland Cavaliers
ANDREW BYNUM – Drake/Eminem “Forever” and Disturbed “Down with the Sickness”
ANTHONY BENNETT – Drake
CARRICK FELIX – Frank Ocean “Channel Orange”
DION WAITERS – Jay Z “Nickels and Dimes”
EARL CLARK – Meek Mill “Flexin On Em”
JARRETT JACK – Meek Mill “Levels”
SERGEY KARASEV – Macklemore ft Ryan Lewis “Can’t Hold Us”
TRISTAN THOMPSON – Justin Bieber “Boyfriend”
Miami Heat
CHARLIE WESTBROOK – Tonex “God Has Not Forgot”
CHRIS ANDERSEN – Avenged Sevenfold “This Means War”
ERIC GRIFFIN – T.I. “24s”
JAMES JONES – The Roots “Rising Up”
JOEL ANTHONY – French Montana “Ain’t Worried About Nothin”
JUSTIN HAMILTON – Mac Miller “Loud”
MARIO CHALMERS – Meek Mill “Bout that Life”
MICHAEL BEASLEY – Pink “Just Give Me a Reason”
RASHARD LEWIS – Rick Ross “Push It”
ROGER MASON, JR. – Anthony Brown “Harvest Song” and Fred Hammond “Glory to Glory”
SHANE BATTIER – Jimi Hendrix “Purple Haze”
UDONIS HASLEM – Ace Hood ft. Trick Daddy “Gutta”
Milwaukee Bucks
BRANDON KNIGHT Drake “Nothing Was the Same” and The Weeknd ft. Drake “Live For”
LUKE RIDNOUR – Jesus Culture Band
ZAZA PACHULIA – David Guetta
O.J. MAYO – Rich Homie Quan “Sacrifices” and Future “Go Harder” and Lil Wayne “The Sky is the limit”
KHRIS MIDDLETON – J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar
CARLOS DELFINO – Los Rojos and Will.i.Am and The Rolling Stones
GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO – Macklemore ft Ryan Lewis “Can’t Hold Us”
NATE WOLTERS – Eminem “Lose Yourself”
EKPE UDOH – Drake and Jay Z and Kendrick Lamar
JOHN HENSON – J. Cole “Villuminati”
MIROSLAV RADULJICA – Rammstein “Keine Lust”
Minnesota Timberwolves
COREY BREWER – Drake
CHRIS JOHNSON – Drake and J. Cole and Lil Wayne
KEVIN LOVE – Jay Z “Tom Ford” and Drake “Pound Cake/Paris Morton”
SHABAZZ MUHAMMAD – Meek Mill
RONNY TURIAF – King of King “Kalash”
Portland Trail Blazers
JOEL FREELAND – Jay Z “Holy Grail”
VICTOR CLAVER – Eminem “Lose Yourself”
WILL BARTON – Lil Wayne “The Sky is the limit”
ALLEN CRABBE – Tyga and YG
DAMIAN LILLARD – Danny from Sobrante “Psyched Out”
LaMARCUS ALDRIDGE – Waka Flocka
WESLEY MATTHEWS – Young Jeezy “Put On”
EARL WATSON – Young Jeezy “RIP”
NICOLAS BATUM – R Kelly “The World’s Greatest”
C.J. McCOLLUM – J. Cole and Drake and Jay-Z
ROBIN LOPEZ – The Bangles “Manic Monday”
DORELL WRIGHT – YG
Orlando Magic
VICTOR OLADIPO – Biggie Smalls
GLEN DAVIS – French Montana “Ain’t Worried About Nothin”
NIK VUCEVIC – Swedish House Mafia “Greyhound”
MAURICE HARKLESS – Eminem “Till I Collapse”
JASON MAXIELL – Rick Ross
KRIS JOSEPH – Chief Keef ft. Rick Ross “3 Hunna”
E’TWAUN MOORE – Jay Z “Song Cry”
RONNIE PRICE – Bob Marley “Three Little Birds”
KYLE O’QUINN – Smokie Norful “I Will Bless the Lord”
DORON LAMB – Drake “All Me”
ROMERO OSBY – Big KRIT “Temptation”
Sacramento Kings
DERRICK WILLIAMS – Drake “Versace”
Toronto Raptors
DeMAR DeROZAN – Jay Z “Feeling It”
RUDY GAY – Jay Z “Anything”
AMIR JOHNSON – Miley Cyrus “Wrecking Ball”
JONAS VALANCIUNAS – Drake
D.J. AUGUSTIN – Lil Wayne
QUINCY ACY – Eminem “Mockingbird”
Utah Jazz
TREY BURKE – Eminem “Lose Yourself”
ALEC BURKS – Jay Z
IAN CLARK – J. Cole
BRIAN COOK – Drake and Jay Z
MIKE HARRIS – Lupe Fiasco “Superstar”
GORDON HAYWARD – Eminem
JOHN LUCAS III – Erykah Badu
SCOTT MACHADO – Nas “Hate Me Now”
DOMINIC McGUIRE – Tupac
BRANDON RUSH – Lil Wayne and Drake
What do you think?
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