Calling in to The Howard Stern Show<\/a> on Tuesday, June 16, the Knicks big man confirmed Woods \u201cdidn\u2019t like\u201d Dolan\u2019s suggestion.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a happily engaged man, I will definitely say, when I came home, and I told my fianc\u00e9e what he said, she didn\u2019t like to hear that one,\u201d Towns, 30, told Stern with a laugh.<\/p>\n The NBA owner initially floated the idea during a lengthy speech to the team in April, with five games left in the regular season and the Knicks on the cusp of the playoffs.<\/p>\n Karl-Anthony Towns, Jordyn Woods Follow your favorite athletes on and off the field with PEOPLE’s free sports newsletter<\/a> \u2014 sign up now!<\/p>\n NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson<\/a> and his teammate Josh Hart<\/a> shared a clip on their Roommates Show<\/a> podcast on Monday, June 15, two days after their championship win.<\/p>\n “I had this idea that maybe you should give up sex for the next 10 weeks,” Dolan, 71, said in the speech<\/a>. “The Spartans, they denied themselves, right, so they can have an edge. Get the edge. Go home, talk to your wives … don’t tell them it was my idea.”<\/p>\n He added, “But let them know what this is going to be like, what this commitment is going to be like.”<\/p>\n While it\u2019s unknown if any Knicks players took the owner\u2019s advice, the team dialed in, winning 13 consecutive games in the playoff run before dropping Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden to the San Antonio Spurs \u2014 and then rattling off two more wins to clinch the championship.<\/p>\n For Towns \u2014 who gave an emotional interview about his late mother following the final game<\/a> \u2014 the experience of helping to bring New York an NBA championship after more than five decades was transformative.<\/p>\n \u201cYou never realize as an athlete when you\u2019re doing something special, you never realize the true impact it has,\u201d Towns told Stern. \u201cYou just understand you\u2019re competing at the highest level and you want to do something special\u2026there was just so much healing, I was stunned.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cI didn\u2019t realize how impactful it really is, and I still honestly don\u2019t understand the true magnitude of what we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the original article on People<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Karl-Anthony](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6beda06cd1de97440cfc19de374509a2.jpeg\"\/)
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