Star NBA point guard Kyrie Irving was born on March 23, 1992, in Australia. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, while his American father, Drederick Irving, was playing professional basketball there for the Bulleen Boomers. Kyrie lived in Melbourne for about two years before his family returned to the United States.
Irving grew up mainly in New Jersey and became one of basketball’s leading guards. He played one season at Duke before entering the 2011 NBA draft, where the Cleveland Cavaliers selected him first overall. He won NBA Rookie of the Year and later became an NBA champion with Cleveland in 2016.
A common mix-up is to answer the United States because Irving is American and spent almost all of his childhood there. Birthplace and nationality are different facts: Irving holds American and Australian citizenship, but Australia is the country where he was born. His Melbourne birthplace also reflects his father’s basketball career overseas.