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OVO Athletic Centre

The OVO Athletic Centre, formerly the BioSteel Centre and the Toronto Raptors Training Centre, is a basketball practice facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Opened on February 10, 2016, the facility is home to the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and owned by the team's owner, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE). It is located on leased public land in Exhibition Place, near Dufferin Street and the Gardiner Expressway, west of downtown. It is named for October's Very Own, the Canadian lifestyle brand and record label founded by rapper Aubrey "Drake" Graham, talent manager Oliver El-Khatib, and record producer Noah "40" Shebib.

Facility
The two-storey facility has two full-size basketball courts, locker rooms, training and medical facilities, player amenities, and a "technologically advanced cognitive operations centre" powered by IBM Watson, which consolidates and analyzes data for display on the centre's displays and on mobile devices. A section of the facility is reserved for MLSE, another is for community use and the basketball courts are shared between MLSE and community use. ==History==
History
In November 2013, it was reported that MLSE had contracted an architect to design a new practice facility for the Raptors. Under the terms of the lease agreement, MLSE paid the construction cost of the facility and parking lot. MLSE leases the property from the City for $205,000 annually, plus city taxes, subject to reassessments for inflation, for a 20-year term, with two options to extend it by a further ten years, following which the City will take ownership of the building. This ended in 2018 and the facility was renamed the Toronto Raptors Training Centre. On March 14, 2019, the Raptors announced that they had reached an agreement with OVO on a naming rights deal to rebrand the facility as the OVO Athletic Centre. ==References==
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