As Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby and the rest of the New York Knicks continue basking in the glow of winning the world championship ring, Daniella Philip, too, is reveling in the light of her own Big Apple bling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got engaged on top of a police car during the Knicks parade,\u201d Philip, 34, exclusively told The Post. \u201cIt was like I was living in a New York City princess fairytale.\u201d<\/p>\n
With an NYPD vehicle as her temporary throne, the teary-eyed bride-to-be yelped \u201cYes!\u201d as her Queens fianc\u00e9, Klarel Avin, 40, dropped on bended knee and popped the question with a multi-carat diamond ring as an\u00a0estimated 2 million Knicks fanatics<\/a>\u00a0lauded and applauded their love.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Daniella Philip was stunned when her boyfriend of three years, Klarel Avin, popped the question while on top of an NYC police vehicle during the Knicks parade on Thursday. @kountupben10_\/TikTok<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m from New York, I\u2019ve been a Knicks fan forever, it was their parade, it was Daniella\u2019s 34th birthday, we were on a cop car, the whole city was outside. It was amazing,\u201d raved Avin, a barber, who, along with Philip, a cranial prosthesis specialist, recently relocated to Tampa, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n The hometown honeys, however, drove 18 hours to attend the ticker-tape celebration Thursday, with Philip completely unaware of the fortunate fate that awaited her at the fab f\u00eate.\u00a0<\/p>\n Love \u2014 much like the\u00a0more than 1.25 tons<\/a>\u00a0of blue, white and orange confetti that shot out of party cannons\u00a0\u2014 is still in the air as NYC continues celebrating the Knicks\u2019 2026 NBA Championship\u00a0win after 53 years of grief<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brunson and his teammates were afforded a hero\u2019s welcome as they paraded down NYC streets to City Hall, where they were each presented with a key to the city for their historic feat. T.JACKSON \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n While a pair of seasoned sweethearts spilled into city streets, commemorating the victory\u00a0with a \u201csymbolic\u201d marriage ceremony<\/a>, young lovers, such as Jillian and Andrew Solomon, embraced the Knicks-sanity by\u00a0tying the knot at City Hall<\/a>\u00a0and partaking in the parade festivities still dressed in their wedding day best.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWalking to the courthouse through thousands of Knicks fans is something we\u2019ll never forget,\u201d Jillian, 27, previously told The Post. \u201cWe love this city, and the best people in the world are here.\u201d<\/p>\n Philip and Avin agree.\u00a0<\/p>\n Philip and Avin share an abiding love for one another, New York City and the Knicks. Puneet Bagga<\/p>\n The twosome, who met via online dating in 2023, initially bonded over their shared love of New York, entrepreneurship and, of course, the Knicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe love watching them play, their tenacity. We\u2019re watching the finals, and I said to Daniella, \u2018They\u2019re going to win the championship, and we\u2019re going to New York,\u2019\u201d Avin recalled to The Post. \u201cThe timing was perfect because, not only did our team win, but the parade was scheduled on her birthday, and I\u2019d just received a call that the jeweler had just finished making her custom ring.\u201d<\/p>\n The ring, which set Avin back a cool \u201cfive figures,\u201d is a 9.16 carat masterwork, featuring a baguette diamond centerpiece surrounded by glistening diamond clusters and engraved with a puzzle piece.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI always say she\u2019s the missing piece to my puzzle,\u201d said Avin, who began planning his proposal five months ago without any inkling that his request for Philip\u2019s hand in marriage would make history.\u00a0<\/p>\n Philip told The Post she had no clue that they were on top of a police vehicle during their engagement IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n The newly engaged couple drove 18 hours, from Florida to NYC, to celebrate the Knicks\u2019 big win. Puneet Bagga<\/p>\n Millions flocked to lower Manhattan Thursday, standing on cars, street signs and police vehicles in celebration of the New York Knicks taking the 2026 NBA Championship. Brian Prahl \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n It was a slam-dunk success that the object of his affection says left her awestruck with an otherworldly sense of elated anxiety.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe were in the crowd, and it was so intense that we just decided to hop on top of a car, not knowing it was a police car,\u201d Philip laughed, claiming she just wanted a better view of Brunson and his teammates as their floats floated through lower Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSuddenly, I see Klarel whispering to our friends, Ben and Maurice, then he starts yelling into the crowd, \u2018Everybody, check this out, check it out, check it out.\u2019 And I\u2019m, like, \u2018What the f- -k is going on?\u2019\u201d she remembered. \u201cThen he turned around and got on his knee with the ring.\u201d<\/p>\n Philip and Avin are excited to plan Knicks-inspired celebrations together for the rest of their lives. Maurice Sharp<\/p>\n Stealing the spotlight away from the Knicks, and becoming the city\u2019s luckiest lady \u2014 even for only a few fleeting moments \u2014 sent Philip into next-level nirvana.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was only when an NYPD officer congratulated them on their engagement \u2014 and advised them against damaging his patrol car \u2014 that the lovebird realized they were standing atop a city-issued cruiser. (It\u2019s a no-no that could have resulted in some legal action.)<\/p>\n \u201cI was shaking. I wanted to cry, laugh, smile. I was speechless,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve never felt such intense emotions. I\u2019ve never felt so loved in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, with nothing left to do but plan a wedding to rival the extravagance of their extraordinary engagement, the couple tells The Post they\u2019re looking forward to incorporating the Knicks into all their future marital milestones.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019d definitely would love to get married in New York. We\u2019ll be doing a lot of planning over the next year,\u201d said Avin, hopeful to swap \u201cI Do\u2019s\u201d sometime between 2027 and 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd when we have our first baby,\u201d added Philip, eager to jump into mommy-mode, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be Knicks-themed with blue and orange everything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby and the rest of the New York Knicks continue basking in the glow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17047,30155,30156,68,232,8606,6495,38431,57,80162,9,24,1104,56,63,65,64,273,6493],"class_list":["post-274051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-engagement","tag-engagement-rings","tag-engagements","tag-exclusive","tag-lifestyle","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-proposals","tag-metro","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-parades","tag-sex-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}