The professional basketball player Scottie Barnes, born on August 1, 2001, is currently in a relationship with his white girlfriend with whom he is having a baby.
As per the available information, it is public that Scottie is having a baby with his girlfriend that we can confirm by her post on the Instagram handle ‘alyssaraeholmes’ with a comment of Scottie himself saying, “life with you.”
Scottie Barnes is having a baby 👶‼️ pic.twitter.com/kCS7x3KftE
— Dan Gee (@DanCanTweet) September 17, 2024
Netizens are saying that, girlfriend of Scottie Barnes is almost 10 years older than him and are passing different mixed opinions about this news.
Furthermore, to this pregnancy news, Scottie’s ex-girlfriend who is from his high school, shared her opinion in a taunting way through a TikTok video and expressed her disappointment in a subtle way.
Beside his personal life, Scottie has more focus towards his career!
Scottie started playing basketball from college for the Florida State Seminoles and received many honors and awards throughout his career.
Talking about his honors and awards, Barnes won a gold medal with the United States at the 2017 FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship in Formosa, Argentina and broke the American under-16 record for free throw percentage.
In addition to this, at the 2018 FIBA Under-17 World Cup in Argentina, Barnes captured another gold medal and in 2019 FIBA Under-19 World Cup in Heraklion, Greece, he won his third gold medal with the United States.
Later on, he started playing basketball with NBA since 2021 when he got selected with the fourth overall pick by the Raptors in the 2021 NBA draft. Since then, he’s playing for ‘Toronto Raptors’ of NBA.
After that, he became widely known as the “NBA Rookie of the Year” in 2022 and earned a spot in the 2024 NBA All-Star Game.
On July 8, 2024, Barnes signed a $225 million, 5-year extension with the Raptors, possibly up to $270 million if it meets supermax criteria.
This very deal makes him the highest-paid player in Raptors history. The deal starts at the beginning of the 2025-2026 season and goes through the 2029-2030 season.
At such a young age of 23, leaving every personal life problem and distractions behind, Scottie has strong focus on his passion towards basketball and is actually doing remarkable work living up his dream.
Additional Information
- Scottie Barnes originally, Scott Wayne Barnes Jr. was born in West Palm Beach FL to Jamaican dad and has most of the relatives who are Canadian.
- Along with an Instagram handle ‘ya.boy.scottie’ with 719k followers Scottie also has a twitter account ‘Scott Barnes’ with 71.6k followers.
- Scottie Barnes was the highest ranked power forward in his class by ESPN and Rivals and is the first player on the court, 90 minutes before All-Star Saturday Night starts.
- Currently, Scottie is getting a lot of hate comments under his Instagram posts on leaving his ex-girlfriend and making her current girlfriend.
