Former basketball star and sports commentator Jalen Rose is dating political commentator Angela Rye, Media Take Out has confirmed.
We’ve been hearing rumors for months about the couple – and this weekend, the pair finally came out as official. The pair made their first public appearance at Tina Knowles’ 5th annual Wearable Art Gala honoring Angela Bassett and Mark Bradford at Barker Hangar.
And they made such a cute couple. Look:
Embed from Getty ImagesAngela is a liberal political commentator on CNN
She briefly served as the executive director and general counsel to the Congressional Black Caucus for the 112th Congress.
Jalen is a sports analyst and former professional basketball player. In college, he was a member of the University of Michigan Wolverines’ “Fab Five” (along with Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson) that reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship games as both freshmen and sophomores.
Rose played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a small forward for six teams, most notably alongside Reggie Miller on the Indiana Pacers team that made three consecutive Eastern Conference finals, and reached the 2000 NBA Finals. He retired in 2007 with a career average of 14.3 points, 3.8 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game.
Rose is a sports analyst for ABC and ESPN. He is an analyst on NBA Countdown, Get Up!, and co-host of the ESPN talk show, Jalen & Jacoby, with co-host David Jacoby.[1] He is also the founder of the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy and the author of The New York Times best-seller Got to Give the People What They Want and producer of the ESPN documentary The Fab Five.
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