Girlfriend of Raptors top pick steals the show at NBA Draft
A basketball star from South Carolina made a lot of new fans in Canada on Wednesday night at the NBA Draft – and it wasn't even the player that the Toronto Raptors selected.
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While Collin Murray-Boyles made headlines of his own as the ninth-overall pick by the NBA's lone Canadian team, it was his girlfriend, Chloe Kitts, who had hoops fans going wild on social media.
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Like Murray-Boyles, Kitts also is a college basketball star for the Gamecocks and helped the team win the NCAA championship in 2023.
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Collin Murray Boyles GF and current South Carolina Gamecock Chloe Kitts pic.twitter.com/p9UHPfqzpr
— Jay (@JayHardy252) June 26, 2025
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After NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced Murray-Boyles as the Raptors' pick – and the 20-year-old appeared to utter an F-bomb, which he later explained – he began to hug family members seated at his table before eventually embracing his girlfriend.
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Kitts, who stunned in an elegant, low-cut red dress, became an instant sensation online among those who were unaware of her own sizable social-media following.
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CANADA, get ready to learn Chloe Kitts https://t.co/eY7Rbc0Rd2 pic.twitter.com/udZpeEOVu0
— Cockadoodle Boo ♥️ (@Cockadoodle_Boo) June 26, 2025
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