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Tom Brady’s eldest son Jack might be trading the gridiron for the basketball court.
On Tuesday, Nov. 25, the retired NFL quarterback, 48, and New York Knicks player Karl-Anthony Towns brought their two sports together in an Instagram post that also featured Jack, 18.
“Next time we’re running routes?” Towns, 30, captioned the upload, tagging the seven-time Super Bowl champion.
The cover image showed the trio standing on a basketball court, smiling as they faced the camera.
In the second photo, Towns, who has been dating Jordyn Woods since 2020, was seen having a discussion with Brady on the hardwood while each athlete held basketballs.
Other pictures included Jack dribbling as Brady and Towns watched. The post ended with the teen dunking his basketball into the hoop.
Jack was born in August 2007, shortly after Brady and his 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 he admitted to Howard Stern in 2020 that Moynahan’s pregnancy was a shock.
“Next thing you know, I found out that Bridget was pregnant with our son,” he said. “So that was a very unique time … and it challenged me in a lot of ways, again, to grow up in a different way. It was very hard for my wife to think she fell in love with this guy, and then now this guy’s ex-girlfriend’s pregnant.”
“And it was very challenging for my son’s mom, you know, because she didn’t envision that either,” he added.
Before their 2022 divorce, Brady and Bündchen welcomed son Benjamin Rein, 15, and daughter Vivian Lake, 12.
As Jack grew, he showed an interest in following in his father’s footsteps on the field. When he was just 13 years old, Brady said Jack already had his first league job as a ball boy for the Buccaneers.
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His mother later said the teen was exploring other sports as well.
“I think right now he wants to be a professional soccer player,” the former Blue Bloods star, 54, said on Live with Kelly in 2017. “Though after the Olympics, he’s like, ‘I think I’m going to win a gold in swimming.’ Then it was Michael Phelps. So I think he just likes awards.”
Brady echoed her sentiments the following year.
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“I think [the kids are] into watching [football] because of their dad, but … My oldest son Jack really loves soccer. He wants to be an Olympics soccer goalie,” Brady told PEOPLE.
No matter what he chooses, his parents have shown their support.
“I really think that he’s kind of like that normal kid who doesn’t really know what he wants to do yet and I think that’s okay,” Moynahan said during a June 2023 appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark. “I certainly don’t want to put any pressure on him to do what I do or what his father does.”
