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Where RJ Barrett’s love of Knicks first came from

These stories don’t get much better than this: The late maternal grandfather came from Jamaica to Brooklyn and cheered for Patrick Ewing and … well let his son-in-law tell it.

“I used to sit and watch the Knick games every time I went over, especially when I was courting my wife,” Rowan Barrett told The Post after his son and Noel Duhaney’s grandson, RJ Barrett, was selected by the Knicks with the No. 3 pick in the NBA draft Thursday night at Barclays Center. “He was obviously of Jamaican descent and he loved Patrick Ewing: That was the only team in the universe that existed to him, right?