J.R. Smith and ‘The Flash’ Actress Candice Patton Welcome New Baby

J.R. Smith, 39, has welcomed a new child into the world with The Flash actress Candice Patton.

Patton, 36, shared the news on Instagram with images of their baby. Announcing that she had a boy at home, she wrote, “Heart now beats outside of my chest in love forevermore.” In the images, the two-time NBA champion's recognizable tattoos are seen and he's tagged in the posts Patton shared announcing the baby's arrival.

Smith is, according to Page Six, still legally married to Shirley “Jewel” Smith — the mother of two of his daughters. The couple married in 2016. Back in 2019, his wife posted a video of herself praying for Smith and Candice who she believed were seeing each other.

“God, I would like to lift my husband up and ask you, Lord Father God, to please just cover him with your blood. I ask in the mighty name of Jesus that you go to him where he is right now and you shake him up, God,” she wrote. “You shake him up and you stir him up . . . I ask that wherever he is broke, you fix him [and] you heal him.

“My husband, he’s hurting and Candice, she’s hurting … For her to go out here, Father God, and seek a married man, I just pray that you give her grace and mercy through all of this,” she added.

Smith responded with a post on Instagram clarifying the nature of their relationship. “IG ain’t a place for relationships!! But God told me to tell y’all I’ve been separated for months. He doesn’t understand why his child failed to mention that… #thatsall,” he wrote.

Although Smith may not have been completely open with his relationship with Patton, one thing that he has revealed is that NBA players were smoking weed in the bubble in 2020.

Speaking on the All the Smoke podcast in 2022, the basketball player explained why. “We was blowing it down in there,” admitted Smith. “That was the only way you could really function in that joint.”