Justin Holiday, the Knicks’ new shooting guard, spent late nights at West Point FaceTiming with a newborn baby girl.
It was not his baby, but his first niece — the daughter of brother Jrue Holiday, the New Orleans Pelicans point guard. The birth became national news because Holiday’s wife, Lauren, a former soccer star for the U.S. national team, was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Lauren couldn’t have brain surgery until after the baby’s birth, and she is now slated to be operated on in five weeks. Jrue has taken a leave of absence from the Pelicans to care for the newborn.