Dallas Mavericks DJ plays big role at NBA All-Star Game

It is uncompromisingly authentic. A social media influencer and one of the hottest DJs in North Texas. Ivy Avino, aka DJ Poizon Ivy, is best known as the in-game DJ for the Dallas Mavericks.

For the fifth year now, she can add to her list of DJ All-Star Weekend NBA awards.

“The NBA Production and Entertainment division selects talent from across the league every year to participate in the NBA All-Star Celebration,” Avino said. “In my seven years in the league, I have been lucky enough to be selected five times. I was the DJ or host of every weekend event.

For Avino, it’s more than just being a DJ, it’s an art form when it comes to choosing the music she’ll play in games.

“Research, also known as Tik Tok,” she joked. “Seriously, some songs are made for certain moments. I premiered the song “Rich the kid ft. Lil Tjay. I deliberately played the new don AFROBEATS for Ira Starr’s global “stability” fancam. I just always want to represent as many people as possible.”

Her history with the Mavericks spans over ten years. Last seven years as an MC/DJ and seven years as a Bolkid. Born and raised in Dallas, she had no other choice.

According to her profile on the Dallas Mavericks website:

Born Ivy Avino in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Dallas, Texas, Ivy mastered the piano and cello before discovering her love for yet another instrument; turntables. In 2010, Ivy had her first breakthrough hosting her eponymous weekly online radio show Poison Ivy After Dark on WMUR, a radio station run by Marquette University student. In a few short years, Ivey has risen in the ranks by opening the city’s biggest venues at Milwaukee’s Marcus Amphitheater and being hailed as the “World’s Biggest Music Festival” Summerfest, opening for some of the biggest names in music: Nas, Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco, BoB, J .Cole and Juicy J are just a few. She is now one of the most in-demand DJs in the Midwest, performing and performing throughout the Midwest.

DJ Poizon Ivy became the first female mixer to grace the airwaves of WKKV-FM as the V100.7 Mix Squad DJ, and most recently joined the mix team of the historic KKDA station K104.5. In 2016, she joined the Dallas Wings as an arena DJ during the WNBA’s historic 20th anniversary season. As if that wasn’t enough, she became the first female Dallas Mavericks DJ in franchise history and the second female DJ in NBA league history to achieve this feat. Poison Ivy’s story of climbing from the bottom to the top rung won a Lonestar Regional Emmy Award for Made-for-Television Mini-Documentary. In 2018, she became the first female DJ to DJ at an NBA All-Star Game..

So what is DJ Poizon Ivy listening to? The last five songs on her playlist at the time of this article are as follows:

Burna Boy – “Another Size”

Southey Sol – “Little Mama”

Bigxthaplug “Texas”

Libianca – “People”

Latto – “Lottery”