:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/7O5AU5KSHZEVFKNFMQGLBS4III.jpg "J Balvin and DJ Pope have announced their support for the Colombian basketball team: what is it? 1")
Between February 23 and 26 of the current year, the capital of Antiochprepare to receive the FIBA Basketball Sixth Window. On this occasion the Colombian selection will host Mexico and Puerto Rico at the Colosseum Ivan de Bedout; and in the last hours the reggaeton singer, J Balvinwith DJ Pope announced that they would be the sponsors of the Colombian team.
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According to the artists’ statements in a press release, both are fans of the sport, and they also believe that it has been a great inspiration for urban music and fashion, so DJ Poperecalled the iconic basketball player, Michael Jordan, who was voted five times the most valuable player of the year of the NBA; won two Olympic gold medals; and led the Chicago Bulls to six championships NBAbut also, he inspired the tennis shoes that bear his family name to this day.
“For us, urban music goes hand in hand with basketball, it’s a passion that has always attracted us and we all have as a reference Michael Jordan, the NBA star, who is the one who taught us this important and successful combination that fashion and sports achieve,” the artist said.
In addition, they assured that the sponsorship will be in the two matches that will be played in the capital of Antioquia and that they did not give many details about the event, they assured that:
“We are going to have a very special event because it will not only be sports, but we will have a lot of entertainment.”
Prior to this announcement, as quoted The Colombianthe technique Raul Pabon who leads the tricolor with Guillermo Moreno Rumiestressed that he is very happy to host this event in his hometown and to expose this sport inside the country.
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“As a native of Antioquia I am very proud of what we are going to experience, that Medellín is the home of the national team, it is an honor and also an incredible feeling. We are going to have the best representatives of this sport with our loved ones who will be able to observe in action these men who carry and leave the name of the country at the top of the world, in a spectacle that will surely be majestic”, he declared pabon.
It should be remembered that the two have already helped Medellín in other areas of sport, for example, as local media point out, they helped in the recovery of the sports plate of the Alfonso López neighborhood.
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In addition, we must not forget that the artist of music as urban Karl G. contributed to the athletes of the Colombian scene. Some time ago the exponent of songs like Tusa, supporting the motorist from Bogota Tatiana Calderon in various tests Formula 2.
The announcement was made by the Colombian singer after the lack of timely payments by sponsor ROKiT, did not allow the athlete to be called up to Indycar races and was subsequently removed from space.
Thank you @karolg for making this possible and for believing in me!! Today together we send a message because as women we deserve to have the same opportunities!! Very proud to take this BICHOTA to more than 300km / h our MAKINON Thank you @charouzracing for opening the doors to me !!!”, wrote the athlete on his social networks.