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KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS AND JORDYN WOODS EMBRACE A LITTLE HEALTHY COUPLES COMPETITION IN WHISTLES NEW HOME TEAM SERIES

Other Couples Featured Include, Grayson Allen, Basketball Player for the Milwaukee Bucks and Fiancé Morgan Reid, Former Pro Soccer Player

NEW YORK – (March 14, 2022) – Team Whistle, the global sports media and entertainment company has pulled together an impressive slate of power couples to participate in their new series, ‘Home Team,’ premiering on Wednesday, March 16 on Whistle’s YouTube page, their social media handles and their Whistle TV, ad-supported sports and entertainment digital network available on The Roku Channel and other OTT platforms including: Samsung TV Plus, Vizio, TCL, Plex, DistroTV, STIRR, and LocalNow. Each episode of ‘Home Team’ will let audiences get to know their favorite athlete and celebrity power couples better through a card game that tests how well the couples know each other with an added physical bonus challenge. Will couples be as competitive at home as they are on the field? The conclusion of each episode will result in the naming of a superior half.

“Morgan and I are so excited to be participating in the ‘Home Team’ series as a rare look into our personal life,‘’ said Garyson Allen. “It was really fun being able to give fans a glimpse into who I am outside of basketball and my relationship with Morgan.

“Our latest ‘Home Team’ series highlights the teamwork necessary in relationships, '' said Noah Weissman, EVP of Content at Team Whistle. “We are excited to spotlight the lighter side of athletes and celebrities couples for our audience in a positive and relatable way - hitting home on the sentiment that ‘love always wins.’”

In the premiere episode, Karl-Anthony Towns, Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player and Jordyn Woods, model and influencer test each other in a series of light hearted card challenges and pop-a-shot basketball challenge to determine a winner. In the second episode we follow Grayson Allen, Basketball Player for the Milwaukee Bucks and his former pro soccer player fiancé Morgan Reid. The nature of the series serves as a reminder that regardless of who is the victor, true partnership is ultimately the biggest win.

About Team Whistle:

Team Whistle is an Eleven Group sports and entertainment media company built to engage and activate today’s generation, wherever they consume content globally. As a pioneer in data-driven content creation and distribution, Whistle has a positive and relatable original content slate of 50+ shows and a creator network that generates over four billion views per month across social platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Team Whistle owns Whistle TV, its free ad-supported digital network available on The Roku Channel and other OTT platforms including: Samsung TV Plus, Vizio, TCL, Plex, DistroTV, STIRR, and LocalNow, which currently reaches over 70M US households. With these deep ties to social and streaming platforms, “Magnet”, Team Whistle’s internal agency provides social first content strategies to brands, leagues and platforms to reach untapped audiences and create revenue opportunities.



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