Karl-Anthony Towns found a way to put two of the biggest moments of his year in the same room.
Actually, in the same dance circle.
Towns and Jordyn Woods were married Saturday in Malibu, California, and according to Gayle King, the celebration delivered a scene that sounded almost too perfect to be real: the Larry O’Brien Trophy made its way onto the dance floor. King made it clear when she talked about the wedding on “CBS Mornings” on Monday - “It was the real trophy,” she said.
That wasn’t the only soundtrack to the night. King also remembered the crowd breaking into Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" with Alicia Keys. “Everybody was singing, ‘New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made,’” she said.
For Towns, the wedding came right in the middle of a massive stretch. He helped the Knicks win an NBA championship in June, and two months later he was getting married. King said Towns’ father, Karl Towns Sr., helped frame the moment with a toast that tied the two celebrations together.
“He said, ‘It’s been a great year - he’s won two rings: the [NBA] championship ring and then the ring that he’s giving to Jordyn tonight.’ I thought that was nice,” King recalled.
King also had a front-row view of one of the night’s sweetest moments. She said she always watches the groom when the bride comes down the aisle, and Towns gave her a reason to keep doing it. As Woods walked toward him, he was “grinning from ear to ear,” King said.
“When she stepped up there, he said, ‘You look amazing.’ I said, ‘Awww,’” King said.
“You know I love love. It was beautiful.”
The guest list matched the setting. King said the wedding reportedly included Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet, Teyana Taylor, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Tracy Morgan and several NBA players.
But the image that lingered was the one that brought the whole year together: the championship trophy out on the floor with Towns’ NBA friends and the wedding guests gathered around it.
“To see all those guys [Towns’ NBA friends] on the floor with all those guests was so nice,” King said.
One ring represented June. The other marked Saturday. And for a few minutes in Malibu, both celebrations shared the same dance floor.
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