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How Jordyn Woods brought her good-luck purse to Knicks Game 3 despite Trump’s no-bag policy
Jordyn Woods faced a courtside crisis Monday.
The model — who is engaged to New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns — couldn’t bring her lucky orange clutch to Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA finals, thanks to a strict no-bag policy put in place for President Donald Trump’s attendance.
The bag has been a game-day ritual throughout the Knicks’ postseason winning streak.
“It’s gotten to the point where if people don’t see me carrying it during a close game, they start blaming me for changing the routine,” she told Vogue recently.
Her workaround for Game 3? Turn the bag into a shoe.
“This has been a topic for the whole day: ‘What am I going to do since Trump banned the bags?’” the model said in a video posted before tipoff.
She said her fiancé would try to get the bag in for her, but as a backup, she’d created a custom pair of orange faux ostrich heels from her own line, the Woods by Jordyn Stunt Sandal in Summer Citrus ($225) — a footwear echo of her lucky clutch.
“Not the lucky bag, but the lucky shoes,” she said.
Before settling on the citrus stilettos, Woods weighed other Knicks-appropriate options, including vintage Manolo Blahnik heels — orange sandals topped with tiny basketball charms — and Christian Louboutin mules in Knicks orange, blue and white.
Woods paired her final pick with light-wash jeans and a low-cut tank dress patchworked from vintage Knicks tees by her tailor, with Towns’ surname stitched across the back.
Unfortunately, the shoes didn’t carry the same juju. The Knicks lost to the San Antonio Spurs in a nail-biter ending, cutting off their playoff winning streak — and fans flooded Woods’ comments demanding the bag’s return.
“Girl we needed the bag 😭😭,” one fan wrote. “NEVER LEAVE THAT BAG AGAIN 😭😩,” added another. A third summed it up: “I think we’ve learned a valuable lesson here.”
Woods reposted a fan-made meme of Towns dunking the lucky bag in place of a basketball with the caption, “Karl tonight bringing in @jordynwoods lucky bag.”
The orange clutch — a custom version of her brand’s $125 Tux Clutch Mini — became a postseason superstition during the start of the playoffs in April, when she debuted it with matching denim. The Knicks won, and the bag has been a courtside fixture ever since.
Woods has spent the season dressing on-theme in custom Knicks pieces, team-colored Fleur du Mal lingerie and bedazzled team-logo pumps. She got engaged to Towns on Christmas Day.
Game 4 tips off Wednesday in NYC — and presumably, the bag will be back.
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