After over 5 years of courting, New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Cities and entrepreneur Jordyn Woods are on the brink of step into a brand new chapter collectively: marriage.
After asserting their engagement on Instagram over the vacations, Cities not too long ago opened up in regards to the care and intention he put behind the viral second throughout an look on “Late Evening with Seth Meyers.”
“It was a shock. We’d been courting for five-and-a-half years as much as that time,” he advised the comic, acknowledging that relationships sometimes don’t final that lengthy in Hollywood. “We discovered a manner.5 1/2 years, via ebbs and flows of a relationship, as anybody would know.”
He continued: “I feel an important factor… we all the time selected one another. Via the unhealthy and the nice, we all the time discovered ourselves selecting one another. I feel that’s what makes for a robust bond, a robust relationship.”
That bond is one Cities aimed to honor when planning out his proposal. As seen within the carousel of images shared of their joint submit, the NBA star popped the query on what gave the impression to be a rooftop overlooking New York Metropolis with a hoop that shone simply as shiny as their love.
“I wished her to have a hoop that reveals that bond and relationship that we’ve constructed,” he shared, earlier than jokingly including, “And yeah, I would like everybody to know she’s mine.”
Whereas Woods and Cities have saved a reasonably low profile all through the course of their relationship, touting that they’d been “good pals” for years, the 2 have supplied little glimpses into their romance.
“Me and Jordyn met years in the past, understanding frequent individuals and simply turned pals,” Cities defined in a earlier interview, per Folks. “And ever since then, our relationship grew the place we turned greater than pals. I’m not saying in that manner, however simply greatest pals. After which we began having a deeper relationship. It simply so occurred that COVID got here and introduced its challenges, and it sort of pressured us to both decide the place our relationship was going to go as pals or one thing extra. And we selected the latter.”
“I feel it’s sort of cool courting your greatest pal. We all know one another. We all know one another’s hearts,” Woods echoed. “We all know one another on good days and unhealthy days, and we’ve been via numerous unhealthy days collectively.”
