Let’s call it a spade a spade. NBA players love to share baby mama dramas, and it’s clear that young and wealthy NBA players are ditching their common sense and contraceptives to play pitch and snag a million dollar sperm donor with women who have it make it their job to spread bread… with respect.

Aaleeyah Petty: New Orleans Pelicans star Brandon Ingram shares baby mama with Portland Trail Blazers star Anfernee Simons

These stories of various professional athletes sharing baby mamas are nothing new and usually they are filled with messy drama spreading across social media with various women dealing with the question of who is more important right now to a man who is always looking for the next lick. The constant story of famous men and IG models playing musical chairs has become a bit stale and unsurprising at this point.

However, every now and then we get an intrigue that adds drama to the action actually taking place on the field.

The New Orleans Pelicans came from behind to defeat the Portland Trail Blazers 105-103 on Friday night as the game ended with Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram sinking a game-winner to the face of Anfernee Simons.

Why is this news? Both are rising players on the field and now family off the field.

Ingram, 27, and Simons, 25, each have a child with the same woman, Aaleeyah Petty, a 30-year-old Instagram model with 1.3 million followers. Surprise! That certainly puts a twist on things.

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If Petty had wanted to see which baby daddy would be in the stall for her, this first of two meetings this weekend might have given her some insight into that future situation.

The score was 103-103 and Ingram, once touted as a franchise player, went one-on-one with Simons. Petty was definitely beside himself at this point. Few WAGs have faced this situation often or not at all. With six seconds on the clock, the 6-foot-2 Ingram made a fadeaway jumper over the 6-foot-2 Simons.

Ingram’s teammates seemed to know the deal because after that shot was fired, Ingram’s teammates could be heard saying, “Yeah, twins, tell her who’s better, tell her who’s better.”

Definitely a cringe moment, but a reality of the professional sports and relationship landscape that has always existed. In these types of environments, the men are competitive in every way, and so are the women who run in their circles.

I’m not sure what was going on in the Petty household between the two siblings, but that was probably livestream worthy.

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Pelicans forward Ingram shares a 5-year-old son with Petty, but he doesn’t celebrate her publicly, choosing to keep their relationship as private as possible despite his appearance at their son’s birthday party in 2022. Simons’ paternity was leaked in 2023 and he also attended the baby shower when Lee was pregnant.

Last season, the IG model posted a photo with the caption, “+1 coming 2/24.” Although she didn’t reveal the NBA player’s father’s name, the photo of Petty shadowing featured a sign that read, “Welcome Baby Simons.”