Fans at last night's matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and the Minnesota Timberwolves weren’t just spectators at a basketball game. During halftime, they found out they were guests at a wedding!
Reid Malone and Ellyn Piatt became husband and bride in front of roughly 19,000 fans at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. According to the Mavericks, it was the first wedding to be held at halftime of an NBA game in the league’s history.
And if anyone is curious—everyone here loved it! pic.twitter.com/iMyG4qPO2C
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This is the type of NBA halftime entertainment that I can get behind, unlike the drag shows that the Milwaukee Bucks were thrilled to put on last month.
The ceremony was a fitting culmination of a series of Mavericks-centered events in the couple’s relationship.
When the couple started dating, Malone was upfront with Piatt that his family were diehard Mavericks fans. By osmosis, she became one too.
They were so diehard, in fact, that they got engaged in 2021 on the same court they would say their vows to each other.
"She said it would be awesome to get engaged in front of thousands of people and so it just made sense to do it here,” Malone said.
The Timberwolves ended up winning the game 124-121 and spoiled point guard Kyrie Irving’s home debut, but I’m sure that the pair will not let that spoil the memory of the happiest night of their lives.
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