Brook Lopez gets engaged at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom

Milwaukee Bucks heart Brook Lopez earned the nickname “Splash Mountain” due to his seven-foot stature, vary from beyond-the-arc and enthusiasm for the Disney theme park experience with the identical identify.

So it ought to come as no shock that Lopez determined to have fun a major life occasion earlier this week at one of many parks in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Lopez bought engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Hailee Strickland at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park on Monday.

The proposal, which came about in entrance of the Tree of Life, was lined up 13 years to the day after the couple first met on the park.

After the Bucks gained the 2021 NBA championship, every participant bought to spend time with the Larry O’Brien trophy the next summer season. Lopez took the trophy to Splash Mountain, so it solely made sense that he would have fun one other momentous event at one in all his favourite places.

Lopez and Strickland started their night time at Tiffins Restaurant in within the park earlier than an engagement photograph shoot on the website of the proposal with Strickland donning particular mouse ears.