Drew League, the Los Angeles-based summer time pro-am basketball league, is celebrating 50 years of existence and continues to be a showcase for among the nation’s greatest hoops abilities. Drew League not too long ago inked a brand new partnership with ClashTV, which is completely airing Drew Ladies’s League video games over the summer time.
ClashTV, an interactive live-streaming digital platform, introduced a slate of unique programming that features cultural commentary, blended martial arts protection, and, after all, basketball. On the finish of final month (June), ClashTV and Drew League introduced a multiyear partnership that may air the Drew’s Ladies’s League video games reside with followers in a position to work together with each other, enter a chat room, upvote and get behind-the-scenes content material together with interviews and video on demand utilizing the ClashTV platform.
The pairing is well timed because the Drew League is in partnership with the WNBA, the main skilled ladies’s basketball league. The Drew Ladies’s Leagues video games air reside on Wednesdays and Fridays streaming from King Drew Magnet Excessive College in Los Angeles, Calif. WNBA alum Essence Carson, Chelsea Grey, Kaleena Mosquada Lewis, Nicky McCrimmon, Noelle Quinn, Odyssey Sims, and Nikki Teasley are all slated to play this season amongst different notables. The Drew Ladies’s League’s championship sport will happen at El Camino Faculty in Torrance, Calif.
“To have the ability to have a good time 50 years of Drew and 36 years of the ladies’s league speaks to the ability and significance that basketball has in our lives,” Drew League Commissioner Chaniel Smiley, supplied in a press release. “We all know that the lads placed on a present, however so do the ladies. And getting our groups out to the world, so followers can see the excellence, the ability, the grit, is significant. These are world-class athletes, and they’re inspirations to everybody who loves the game. This 12 months could be very particular as a result of as a part of our fiftieth Anniversary 12 months, that is the primary time the Ladies’s Drew will happen over the summer time concurrently the Males’s Drew, which can create a platform for our rising expertise in highschool & school to additionally take part in.”
As Commissioner Smiley notes, curiosity in ladies’s basketball is surging as a result of wonderful NCAA ladies’s basketball event and the rising presence of the WNBA and different ladies’s leagues across the globe. With ClashTV giving the Drew League a obligatory enhance within the trendy period, it goals to develop into a part of the basketball dialog 12 months in and 12 months out as effectively.
“ClashTV approaching board to stream the Ladies’s Drew League means quite a bit as a result of, it not solely reveals that the lads’s league is the premier ProAm, however now this additionally helps to acknowledge the ladies’s league as a premier vacation spot for ladies to compete as effectively. We’re excited for the younger women and girls on the market who wish to compete, to now have further visibility to showcase their expertise to the plenty and have an outlet that may assist them additionally create second probability alternatives and consciousness to proceed enjoying the sport of basketball professionally or on the subsequent degree,” Crossover Collective [OVR] Co-Founder Steph Rawlins, the Drew League’s media, advertising and marketing & model company who helped navigate the partnership, added in a press release.
Ivan Isakov, ClashTV co-founder, added, “We’re so proud to accomplice with Chaniel, Dino, and the Drew League household. Having the ability to present the world what this league is all about is an honor for our firm and for me personally, as a father whose daughter can also be an athlete.”
Drew Ladies’s League is in its thirty fifth 12 months. The Drew League was based in 1973. NBA greats have graced the Drew League courts, together with the late Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, Trae Younger, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, and extra.
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