Karl-Anthony Towns' wife, Jordyn Woods, is not holding back about how she feels about people who doubted the New York Knicks following their historic NBA title win.
“It just proves that you’re in the right place and doing the right thing,” Jordyn, who married the Knicks star over the summer, told The Athletic. “It silences a lot of those haters that we were talking about. A lot of these people who didn’t believe now can’t say anything.”
“Now the Jimmy narrative’s very different,” Jordyn added of the Golden State Warriors' Jimmy Butler. “But it only took, what, almost a decade?”
Butler famously hurled insults at KAT during their time as teammates on the Timberwolves, calling the Knicks star “soft” and a “loser.”
“I think people were projecting their internal insecurities,” Jordyn said. “When you’re a nice person and people feel like you’re not going to say anything back, they feel entitled to say something about you.”
Jordyn wasn't the only to take aim at Butler's previous insults with KAT's father, telling the outlet that his son “bypassed him,”
Article Continues Below“It only hurt me as a father to hear people saying stuff that was negative that wasn't true to bring him down,” Karl Towns said. “But in the end, it all paid up. Jimmy ain't got no championship. Karl bypassed him.”
On the other end, KAT is living in an era he only once dreamed about. The Knicks won their first championship in 53 years with the dominant center being a key player in the team's success.
“The ability to celebrate and rejoice and have that joy of a kid without being judged,” Towns said. “And also just the freedom of being able to really talk your s— for real, like being able to say you’re the champion and no one being like, well, this or that, whatever.”
Now the Knicks will be heading back on the court after of summer of celebration and embark on their first regular season game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Oct. 20.