Skee-Lo's 'I Wish' Is Reborn as an Ode to Smaller Ballers in ESPN's First Work From Droga5

The video claims 6-footers have changed the game

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Droga5 takes its first shot for ESPN today since adding the business last August, introducing “Life Needs Sports,” a brand platform focused on culturally relevant moments and big-time athletic competition.

A breezy, two-minute musical spot, “Smaller,”timed to coincide with the NBA playoffs, celebrates the league’s “small ball” players — guys who aren’t giants by the game’s standards, but triumph by maximizing their own special skill sets.

And what better to way to celebrate their indomitable spirit than by reworking Skee-Lo’s 1995 hip-hop smash “I Wish”?

In the original song, the singer bemoans that he’s too short to compete on the court and, consequently, inferior in various other aspects of his life.

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