Julian Newman is an amateur basketball player as well as a social media personality. Moreover, He hails from a household where virtually everyone participates in the sport. His father Jamie is a basketball coach from whom he and her sister Jaden Newman learned basketball from a young age. He along with his family had also featured on the show “Hello Newman.” In addition, his sister has also featured on Steve Harvey‘s and Good Morning America’s shows after she starred in a Foot Locker ad with athlete Stephen Curry when she was ten years old.
Furthermore, he was noticed in 2012 after his viral highlight video of playing varsity basketball for Downey Christian School in fifth grade on YouTube with the title ‘Fifth-grader starting for Florida varsity team’. He prompted divisive reactions, with some outlets hailing him as a kid prodigy and others condemning his marketing strategy. Wanna know more about him then keep on scrolling.
Caption: The Basketball player, Julian Newman.
Source: YouTube
Julian Newman was born on 6 September 2001, in Orlando, Florida, the United States of America. He is the son of parents Vivian Gonzalez and Jamie Newman. Further, his parents were both basketball players, and later his father became a basketball coach. He has one sister Jaden Newman who also trained basketball alongside him. Newman has a mixed ethnicity of Jewish and Puerto Rican descent.
He started showing interest in basketball at age of three. He later began his playing game and trained under his father Jamie along with his sister. In 2012, he was transferred to Downey Christian School after attending local schools. He began playing basketball for the middle school team (in his fifth grade) and soon after that, he was promoted to the varsity team.
During his sixth grade, he became viral on YouTube after he garnered a place on the high school article ‘Fifth grader starting for Florida varsity team’ receiving over 3.5 million views. He then attracted the national headlines in different news portals including Sports Illustrated and The New York Times. For his senior season, Newman transferred to Prodigy Prep, a new school in Orlando founded by his father, who would also coach the basketball team.
Talking about his personal life, he is almost likely single at the moment. Since he has not talked about his relationship or dating in the media. Therefore, he might have been focusing on his career building rather than involving romantically. Additionally, he became known for his appearance after featuring in his family reality show ‘Hello Newmans’. Moreover, Newman began starring in his own documentary series, “Born Ready,” uploaded by YouTube channel Elite Mixtapes in 2015.
Caption: Newman family
Source: Instagram
The athlete has accumulated a significant amount of money in his bank account. Therefore, he has an estimated net worth estimated at above $1 million from his amateur basketball playing career. Besides playing, he has appeared in various commercials and promoting products from which he gained a profitable amount.
He has a verified official Instagram account @juliannewman4 with 749k followers. On Twitter, he goes by the unverified but official account @julian_newman04 with more than 1.9k followers. But it seems that he does not have an account on Facebook.
As a sportswoman, he has a perfect fit and strong body that has unknown body measurements of chest-waist-biceps respectively. His body stands to a height of 5 feet 7 inches or 1.70 meters and weighs around 64 kg. He has black hair color as well as eyes color. Further, he has tattooed on his chest.
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