{"id":103412,"date":"2015-05-29T03:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=103412"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:21:31","slug":"basketball-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Love &#038; Basketball 2015: Alex \"Superman\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l3c9sT6Uv3c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Congrats to Alex \"Superman\" Johnson and Brey Dorestt, not just because the two hoopers got engaged but because their 'Love &amp; Basketball' inspired proposal was easily the best basketball proposal I've ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>While playing 1-on-1 against his girlfriend \"Breyschoice,\" Superman faked an injury and hit the ground just so he could get up by getting on 1 knee and taking Brey's hand to propose to her. \u00a0Yeah that put my proposal to shame and in my opinion tops this viral proposal that happened at a Bulls game a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SO51UQlxVyw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>WHO IS SUPERMAN<\/h3>\n<p>So who is Superman Johnson? \u00a0Alex is a NC State graduate who first made news on Ballislife when he became the first Canadian to ever be drafted with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/2013-nbl-draft-alex-johnson\/\">first pick in the NBL draft<\/a>. In his first season, he was an All-Star and helped lead his team to the playoffs. \u00a0Late last year, he signed with the Saint John Mill Rats - a team that made some news last season when they <a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/aquille-carr-finalizing-a-deal-to-play-for-the-saint-john-mill-rats-of-canada\/\">signed Ballislife All-American Aquille Carr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the latest adventure of Superman and his Lois Lane at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/supermanjohnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/supermanjohnson<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hU0aMtFJe2o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Alex \"Superman\" Johnson and Brey Dorestt, not just because the two hoopers got engaged but because&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,23],"tags":[8327,8328],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-103412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-video","tag-alex-superman-johnson","tag-basketball-proposal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Love &amp; Basketball 2015: Alex &quot;Superman&quot; Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever - Ballislife.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Love &amp; Basketball 2015: Alex &quot;Superman&quot; Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever - Ballislife.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Congrats to Alex &quot;Superman&quot; Johnson and Brey Dorestt, not just because the two hoopers got engaged but because&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ballislife.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ballislifestyle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astramskas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-29T10:40:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-13T17:21:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"613\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"347\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/redapples\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ballislife\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"David\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/person\/7495ccec905b59227f381556d9197944\"},\"headline\":\"Love &#038; Basketball 2015: Alex \\\"Superman\\\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-29T10:40:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-13T17:21:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/\"},\"wordCount\":232,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"alex superman johnson\",\"basketball proposal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\",\"Blogs\",\"Videos\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/\",\"name\":\"Love & Basketball 2015: Alex \\\"Superman\\\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever - Ballislife.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-29T10:40:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-13T17:21:31+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg\",\"width\":613,\"height\":347},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Love &#038; Basketball 2015: Alex \\\"Superman\\\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/\",\"name\":\"Ballislife.com\",\"description\":\"Ballislife.com is your 1 stop shop for everything basketball!\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ballislife LLC\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01095139\/post-placeholder.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01095139\/post-placeholder.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Ballislife LLC\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ballislifestyle\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ballislife\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ballislife\/\",\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@ballislife\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/person\/7495ccec905b59227f381556d9197944\",\"name\":\"David\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/931c17b4020dcb575fc78ff49487cbc2?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/931c17b4020dcb575fc78ff49487cbc2?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"David\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astramskas\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/astramskas\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/redapples\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/expiredpineapples\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/author\/sugarland\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Love & Basketball 2015: Alex \"Superman\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever - Ballislife.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Love & Basketball 2015: Alex \"Superman\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever - Ballislife.com","og_description":"Congrats to Alex \"Superman\" Johnson and Brey Dorestt, not just because the two hoopers got engaged but because&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/","og_site_name":"Ballislife.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ballislifestyle\/","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astramskas","article_published_time":"2015-05-29T10:40:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-06-13T17:21:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":613,"height":347,"url":"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"David","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/redapples","twitter_site":"@ballislife","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"David","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/"},"author":{"name":"David","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/person\/7495ccec905b59227f381556d9197944"},"headline":"Love &#038; Basketball 2015: Alex \"Superman\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever","datePublished":"2015-05-29T10:40:39+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-13T17:21:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/"},"wordCount":232,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg","keywords":["alex superman johnson","basketball proposal"],"articleSection":["Articles","Blogs","Videos"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/","url":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/","name":"Love & Basketball 2015: Alex \"Superman\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever - Ballislife.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg","datePublished":"2015-05-29T10:40:39+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-13T17:21:31+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/29034028\/bil-superman.jpg","width":613,"height":347},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/basketball-proposal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Love &#038; Basketball 2015: Alex \"Superman\" Johnson Fakes Injury To Pull Off The Best Basketball Proposal Ever"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/","name":"Ballislife.com","description":"Ballislife.com is your 1 stop shop for everything basketball!","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#organization","name":"Ballislife LLC","url":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01095139\/post-placeholder.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01095139\/post-placeholder.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Ballislife LLC"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ballislifestyle\/","https:\/\/x.com\/ballislife","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ballislife\/","https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@ballislife"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/person\/7495ccec905b59227f381556d9197944","name":"David","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/931c17b4020dcb575fc78ff49487cbc2?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/931c17b4020dcb575fc78ff49487cbc2?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","caption":"David"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/ballislife.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astramskas","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/astramskas","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/redapples","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/expiredpineapples"],"url":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/author\/sugarland\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103412"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=103412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}