Enrique Freeman's Mother

Enrique Freeman, a basketball power forward with the Indiana Pacers and their NBA G League affiliate as of May 2025. After being selected 50th overall by the Indian Pacers in the second round of the 2024 NBA Draft, he signed a two-way contract. Freeman went to St. Martin de Porres High School before receiving a scholarship at the University of Akron in 2019. He was named to the MAC All-Defensive Team four times from 2021 to 2024, consecutively. In 2022, he became the MAC Tournament MVP and MAC Defensive Player of the Year. The following season, he was named to the first-team All-MAC and was again named in 2024.

Freeman was selected for the 2024 MAC Tournament MVP and the MAC Player of the Year. Further, he was an AP honorable mention All-American and NCAA rebounding leader. Before his final season at Akron, he was included in the 20-man watch list for the Karl Malone Award for power forward. In February 2024, he was added to the 10-man pool of finalists for the award. He has participated in 132 games over his five years of college, starting 122 of them, and averaged 14.0 points, 1.3 assists, and 10.6 rebounds.

Who is Enrique Freeman's mother?

Enrique Freeman’s mother is Tania Torres. She is a Cleveland police officer, as per the AP News. Enrique Freeman is one of his seven children, and the other six siblings are Tatiana, Beautiful, Nicole, Stephen, Nautica, and Isis, according to his Akron Zips college profile biography.

Freeman responded to a question about who encouraged him to try out for the team, as per Sports Illustrated. He was talking to the media during his first session with the Pacers before the summer league. "My mom really was the number one who pushed me. She was like 'you didn't try out your first year, you need to go ahead and try out your second year.'" After being gone from the sport for a while, Freeman was intimidated, but he still went for it.