RJ Barrett is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on June 14, 2000 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the godson He is the godson of superstar point guard Steve Nash. , the legendary point guard .
Barrett’s father Rowan Barrett was born to Jamaican parents and raised in Toronto. He played college basketball for St. John’s before embarking on a professional career spent in Europe and South America. Rowan Sr. was a long-time member of the Canadian national team, which he captained at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and later became executive vice president and general manager of Canada Basketball. Barrett is the godson of Steve Nash, a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who played with his father on the Canadian national team. Rowan Sr. first met Nash, who is about two years his junior, while playing for the under-19 national team and quickly became close friends with him. When Barrett was a baby, Nash bought him his first crib.
Rowan Alexander “RJ” Barrett Jr. (born June 14, 2000) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A shooting guard and small forward, he was selected third overall in the 2019 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks after one year with the Duke Blue Devils program under coach Mike Krzyzewski.
He is Rowan Barrett’s son. Kesha, his mother, was a sprinter.
He was Canada’s 2017 FIBA Under-19 World Cup Champion and the tournament’s MVP.
Barrett’s mother Kesha Duhaney is a native of Brooklyn, New York. She was a nationally ranked sprinter and long jumper for St. John’s University before working for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Barrett’s parents first met while attending St. John’s. His maternal aunt Dahlia Duhaney was a member of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team that won a gold medal at the 1991 IAAF World Championships. Also on his mother’s side, his grandparents ran track for the Jamaican national team, and his uncle played football for the University of Maryland.
