Who plays the music in NBA?

Who selects the music in an NBA locker room? Every team has its rule, its personal DJ. SLAM asked every NBA team who was in charge of putting on the music before and after the games. There is obviously a lot of hip hop, and some surprises. 

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS: LeBron James

“One thing about LeBron’s music is you can get Eminem, Jay-Z—he’s got the largest library. The most random thing he’s put in was in Toronto, we listened to ‘70s dance music.” —Jordan McRae

DETROIT PISTONS: Henry Ellenson

“Henry—we call him 'Hennessy.' He has everything...He’s usually there an hour-and-a-half early putting the music on. He’s usually on some Lil Wayne, Young Thug, anything poppin’. Now he’s on a lot of Quavo. I didn’t expect it, either, the first couple times I was like, Who’s playing music?” —Stanley Johnson

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS: Shared

“Either JaVale [McGee], I do the weight room a lot and sometimes Zaza gets tired of our young music, so he comes over there and puts on some house music or something I’ve never heard in my life before. About once a week I gotta deal with it." —Kevon Looney

HOUSTON ROCKETS: Nobody

"We actually don't play too much music in the locker room. Before every game we have a highlight tape of the previous game that a coach (Brett Gunning) puts together and he picks the music. Usually all depending on what city we're in, which is funny. So if we're in L.A. it could be YG or Kendrick. In New Orleans it might be Lil Wayne. He's always trying to surprise us and make himself look cool." —Sam Dekker

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES: Shared

“Tyus [Jones] DJs a little bit. We don't let Andrew [Wiggins] touch it because he’ll bring some Canadian rappers or something into it that we don't want to mess with. My go-tos are Chief Keef, Montana of 300. I'm from the West Coast so of course YG. Tyus is into Lil' Uzi and 21 Savage. Ricky [Rubio] listens to the Macarena.” —Zach LaVine

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER: Russell Westbrook

“Everybody knows who’s in charge in our locker room, man. He goes with a lot of Biggie, a lot of Lil Uzi Vert, you know that from his commercial. And if you’re going to try to do take control, you better bring something good otherwise it’s being changed quick.” —Josh Huestis

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS: Joel Embiid

“Joel likes to take over the music, but he only plays 'Wicked' by Future. That’s the only song he ever plays, and he starts dancing to it all the time. Robert Covington, too, on our team, he likes to take over as DJ. And then TJ McConnell as well, but when TJ takes over, he plays soft music, he doesn’t play pump up music, so we try to keep him off the 1s and 2s.” —Nik Stauskas