Kane Brown Showcases His Basketball Skills at Madison Square Garden
Kane Brown's forthcoming "Blessed and Free" tour could be country music's most ambitious post-pandemic tour undertaking. The tour finds Brown visiting all 29 National Basketball Association franchises' home arenas in North America between October 2021-February 2022. However, if Brown's most recent social media post showcasing his impressive groundball skills are any indication, the recent ACM Award-winner is as comfortable on stage as he is on the court.
"Madison square garden! Gimme a one day contract đ," wrote the artist whose most recent single is his Chris Young collaboration for "Famous Friends." Brown plays the "Worlds Most Famous Arena" on Jan. 15, joined by openers Restless Road -- the band that recently were the first artists signed to his 1021 Entertainment label.
In regards to Brown's ability to sink 30-foot three-point shots and fancy layups, Brown was a high school basketball player who, before singing songs like Lauren Alaina duet "What Ifs," was strongly considering pursuing being a college basketball player.
In a 2018 interview with Nashville's Country Daily, he said, âI thought I was going to go to college and, you know, [play] ballâfootball or basketballâand then the talent show was coming up, and thatâs when I started singing again. My buddy was like, âDude, you need to do the talent show,â so I started learning Chris Young [songs].
âI started singing âGettinâ You Home,â so then I went and sang at my talent show, and I ended up winning. Then they wanted me to do an encore and I did âYour Manâ by Josh Turner...I started posting covers on Facebook and got lucky. People started sharing my stuff and I was like, âYou know what? I just want to take this as a career.ââ