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Tom Brady’s eldest son Jack might trade the bars for a basketball court.
On Tuesday, Nov. 25, retired NFL quarterback and New York Knicks player Karl-Anthony Towns, 48, introduced two sports in an Instagram post that also featured Jack, 18.
“Next time do you want to run a route?” Towns, 30, captioned the upload, tagging the seven-time Super Bowl champion.
The cover image showed the trio standing on a basketball court and smiling for the camera.
In a second photo, Towns, who has been dating Jordyn Woods since 2020, was seen talking to Brady on the hardwood while each player held a basketball.
There was also a photo of Jack dribbling while Brady and Towns looked on. The post ended with a boy sinking a basketball into a hoop.
Jack was born in August 2007, shortly after Brady and ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan split in 2006. His full name is John Edward Thomas Moynahan.
The former New England Patriots player was already dating supermodel Gisele Bündchen and admitted to Howard Stern in 2020 that Moynahan’s pregnancy came as a shock.
“Next thing we found out Bridget was pregnant with our son,” he said. “It was a very unique time…and once again challenged me in many ways to grow up differently. It was very difficult for my wife to think that she had fallen in love with this man and now this man’s ex-girlfriend was pregnant.”
“And it was very difficult for the son’s mother, too, because she didn’t imagine it either,” he added.
Before their divorce in 2022, Brady and Bündchen welcomed son Benjamin Reign, 15, and daughter Vivian Lake, 12.
As Jack grew up, he expressed an interest in following in his father’s footsteps in the field. Brady said Jack already had his first job in the league as a ball boy for the Buccaneers when he was just 13 years old.
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His mother later said the boy had also tried other sports.
“I think he wants to be a professional footballer now,” the former Blue Bloods star, 54, said on Live with Kerry in 2017. “But after the Olympics, I’m like, ‘I think I can win a gold medal in swimming.'” Then there was Michael Phelps. So I think he just likes awards. ”
Brady echoed similar sentiments the following year.
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“I think (the kids) are into watching (soccer) because of their dad, but…my oldest son, Jack, really loves soccer. He wants to be an Olympic soccer goalie,” Brady told PEOPLE.
Whatever he chose, his parents were supportive.
“I really think he’s like a normal kid who doesn’t really know what he wants to do yet, and I think that’s fine,” Moynahan said during an appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark in June 2023. “I don’t want to put pressure on him like I did or like his father.”
