RJ Hunter - Men's Basketball Coach - Tulane University Athletics

RJ Hunter

Title:
Volunteer Assistant Coach

RJ Hunter enters his second season as an Assistant Coach with the Tulane men's basketball program in 2025-26.

In his first season with the program, Hunter aided in the development of multiple all-conference honorees for the Green Wave. He helped Rowan Brumbaugh (First Team), Kaleb Banks (Second Team), and Kam Williams (Freshman Team) each garner recognition from the league at the end of the 2024-25 campaign. Hunter continued to foster improvement with Brumbaugh as well as Asher Woods who both earned preseason honors from the conference ahead of the 2025-26 campaign. Brumbaugh was selected as the Preseason American Player of the Year and unanimous First Team All-Conference while Woods picked up Second Team All-Conference recognition.

Prior to joining the Green Wave in Uptown, Hunter spent nine seasons playing professional basketball across the NBA, G League, and internationally. In G League history he ranks eighth all-time in three-pointers and 27th in scoring.

Hunter was a first round draft pick in the 2015 NBA Draft as he was selected 28th overall by the Boston Celtics. He went on to have stints with the Celtics, Bulls, and Rockets in the NBA playing in 45 total regular season games and five playoff games. During the 2017-18 season with the Rockets, Hunter recorded a career-high 19 points on 7 of 16 shooting against the Sacramento Kings.

Before his professional playing career, Hunter played three seasons under his father, Head Coach Ron Hunter, at Georgia State from 2012-15. He still holds multiple records for the Panthers including career records for points (1,819), threes made (253), free throw percentage (.853), and consecutive free throws made (38).

During his time at Georgia State Hunter earned Sun Belt Male Athlete of the Year and Player of the Year twice in 2014 and 2015. He also garnered First Team All-Sun Belt honors in 2014 and 2015 as well as CAA Rookie of the Year in 2013. In his final season for the Panthers, he averaged a career-high 19.7 points to lead his team to the regular season and tournament titles in the Sun Belt and receive a bid to the 2015 NCAA Tournament. In the first round of the tournament Hunter led No. 14 seed Georgia State to an upset of No. 3 seed Baylor by scoring 12 of the Panthers' final 13 points, including a 30-foot three-pointer with 2.6 second remaining to secure the victory.