19,000(ish) fans witnessed Jalen Brunson pop off for 42 points in a six-point win over the Detroit Pistons at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. They also got to experience a once-in-a-lifetime proposal happen on the floor.
Getting engaged at a sporting event is nothing new. Getting engaged while a 6-foot-8, 250-pound big berates an official in the background is a unique experience.
Of course it happened in New York City!
Two lucky fans were “randomly selected” for some kind of in-game promotion during the Knicks game. The young woman never suspected what was going to happen next. Her boyfriend dropped to a knee and asked her to marry him. In shock, she said yes.
Meanwhile, no more than 16 feet away, Julius Randle walked over to the referee and gave him a piece of his mind about a lack of calls in the paint. He was in Brandon Adair’s ear throughout the entire proposal!
His hilariously disruptive squabble took place in the camera shot, just over the boyfriend’s left shoulder.
To get engaged in front of a sold-out crowd at the Garden is pretty wild. The most famous arena in the world, and everybody watching MSG Network at home, watched the very intimate moment in real time.
Countless others watched it online afterward. It was a shared experience between the couple and millions of people, which often times doesn’t go over well with the girlfriend.
She seemed pretty thrilled with the engagement as it happened. However, little did they know, Randle was chewing out the referee and stole the moment from a viral video standpoint.
The happy couple, for the rest of time, will have a video from one of the biggest moments in life. There, in the background, a massive, $100 million+ NBA star spent the entirety of the proposal letting an official know that he disagreed with how the game was being called. Pretty hilarious!