Houston Rockets' Austin Rivers reacts to his shot during the second quarter of Game 2 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP)Kevin C. Cox/Associated Press

Austin Rivers, GF Audreyana Michelle Reveal Baby Gender with Alley-Oop Video

Jenna CiccotelliOct 13, 2020

Weeks removed from NBA competition, Houston Rockets guard Austin Rivers put in a different type of work on the court this week.

In a video posted to Instagram, the 28-year-old Rivers caught an exploding basketball in a lob from his girlfriend, model Audreyana Michelle, to reveal that the couple is expecting a baby boy. The ball broke open to reveal blue powder before Rivers could finish the alley-oop, which he acknowledged in his video caption.

"It broke in the hand lol but yea it's a boy," wrote Rivers, whose first son Kayden was born in 2018. "Blessed."