Milwaukee Bucks center Brook Lopez proposes to longtime girlfriend at Walt Disney World

Milwaukee Bucks middle 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 a good time a big life occasion earlier this week at one of many parks in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Lopez received engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Hailee Strickland at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park on Monday.

The proposal, which befell 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 received to spend time with the Larry O’Brien trophy the next summer time. Lopez took the trophy to Splash Mountain, so it solely made sense that he would have a good time one other momentous event at considered one of his favourite places.

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