“Here come old flattop, he come naming up slowly. He got Junior eyeballed, he one holy roller.”
Pardon my modern day reinterpretation of a classic Beatles lyric, but it was the only reaction that I could think of after hearing the news that Cavaliers forward Iman Shumpert is planning to name his daughter “Iman Shumpert Jr.”
Daughter.
On Wednesday, the 25-year-old announced on Instagram that he is expecting his first child with singer/actress Teyana Taylor this coming January. With the announcement also came Shumpert declaring his intentions to slap onomastic tradition right in the face.
Shumpert’s caption read:
When a man loves a woman how she was born to be loved…procreation is the best blessing you can receive!