The actress is engaged to the Boston Celtics head coach whose team made it to the NBA Finals in his first year
The Boston Celtics are headed to the NBA Finals after the team’s 100-96 win over the Miami Heat in Game 7 on Sunday.
Actress Nia Long, who is engaged to Celtics coach Ime Udoka, hit up social media to celebrate in the aftermath, Boston.com reports. She posted several tweets during and after the win along with a video of her dancing after the game ended — see the clip below.
Long trended throughout the day as social media users trumpeted her man’s victory.
Long and Udoka got engaged in 2015 after first meeting in 2010 while Udoka was an assistant for the San Antonio Spurs. The couple shares a son, Kez Sunday Udoka, who was born in 2011. But Long admitted in a 2020 interview that she’s not getting married anytime soon.
“Love is complicated, let’s just start there,” she told
The NBA Finals will kick off Thursday night with the Celtics going against the Golden State Warriors.
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