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Jordyn Woods Loans Her Lucky Knicks Championship Bag to the Guggenheim

The orange Tux Clutch Mini was a courtside staple during the team’s historic run

By Alexandria Sillo
Three people in casual attire stand smiling next to a display case holding an orange handbag.
Karl-Anthony Towns and Jordyn Woods at the Guggenheim Museum with her Tux Clutch Mini. Photo: Davia de Croix, Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

As the New York Knicks put the pieces in place for their 2026 NBA Championship run, fans will no doubt argue that Jordyn Woods, who is engaged to star player Karl-Anthony Towns, played a crucial part. The fashion designer and her orange Tux Clutch Mini became a lucky charm of sorts. The belief in the bag only strengthened when the team dropped Game 3 of the Finals at Madison Square Garden, during which Woods had to leave the clutch home due to a strict no-bag policy.  

When the team overcame a historic 29-point deficit in Game 4 to beat the Spurs in San Antonio, Woods and her bag were present. Towns took to Instagram following the game, telling his fans and followers that “the bag did its thing tonight!” he followed it with a suggestion to put the accessory “in the Whitney or the Guggenheim.” Now, Woods will do just that.

Beginning June 24, the bag seen courtside by viewers around the world will be on view at the Guggenheim for five days. The museum confirmed the announcement in an Instagram post shared on Tuesday. “A courtside icon is coming our way,” the museum posted, alongside a video of Woods looking out into the Guggenheim rotunda, with a voiceover featuring Towns’s post-Game 4 musings.

Karl-Anthony Towns and Jordyn Woods posing next to a display case at the Guggenheim with her lucky orange bag, one wearing a casual outfit and the other in a blazer and jeans.
Karl-Anthony Towns and Jordyn Woods at the Guggenheim. Photo: Davia de Croix, Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The New York Knicks team celebrating their 2026 NBA championship victory on stage with trophies, surrounded by confetti and cheering crowd.
The New York Knicks celebrate their 2026 NBA championship title at their ticker tape parade. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office/Flickr

“New York City means so much to Karl and me, so being able to lend a piece of history—and luck—back to the city is truly an honor,” Woods said in a press release. “The Guggenheim is one of my favorite places, and I never imagined that something I designed would one day be on view at the museum. So many of us are still in shock over the Knicks’ historic run, and seeing the lucky bag at the Guggenheim somehow makes it all feel real.”

Woods and Towns are longtime friends of the Guggenheim, with the NBA star being a catalyst for the creation of the Teen Circle program, according to the museum.