Duke Basketball: RJ Barrett drains shot on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show
Former Duke Basketball star, RJ Barrett, along with four other NBA Draft hopefuls made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for some fun prior to Thursday’s big day.
RJ Barrett dawned the Duke blue and white one last time before he could be wearing a different blue and while uniform with some orange to go along side of it.
Barrett joined Coby White, De’Andre Hunter, Darius Garland, and Jaxson Hayes on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for a ‘random object shootout’ on Tuesday night prior to Thursday’s NBA Draft.
As you can see in the full video above, the players had to throw objects such as cakes, shoes, manikin heads, and water balloons into a hoop.
While obviously this is difficult, fun, and purely for entertainment purposes, the only player to make his shot?
R.J. Barrett.
.@RjBarrett6 drains a basket with a mannequin head that’s wearing a @nyknicks hat in Random Object Shootout! #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/ZH7OouTNGu
— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) June 19, 2019
Perhaps what made it even better is that Barrett was shooting a manikin head with a New York Knicks hat on, the team that will most likely select Barrett with the No. 3 overall pick in Thursday’s draft, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Vanderbilt guard Darius Garland had his workout with the Knicks today, but New York remains locked on selecting Duke’s RJ Barrett with the NBA Draft’s third overall pick on Thursday, league sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 19, 2019
De’Andre Hunter also shot the Knicks manikin head, but could not get his shot to go down.
In the pre-draft process, RJ Barrett only worked out for the Knicks, telling the assembled media after his workout that New York is the place he wants to be.
Barrett could be the first piece of a major offseason for the Knicks as the team tries to lure major free agent in an attempt to finally end its long suffering rebuild.
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While at Duke, Barrett averaged 22.6 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 4.3 assists per game en route to being named as a consensus All-American and a spot on the First Team All-ACC.
The NBA Draft will take place on Thursday, June 20, from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York and can be seen on ESPN with coverage beginning at 7:00pm EST and the draft beginning at 8:00pm EST.