When the Trail Blazers drafted Jake, the couple faced another challenge. “For me, obviously, I had no choice,” Jake said. “That’s where I was going. But for Jasmine, it was a choice to be made about going with me all the way across the country. She had a tough choice to make.”Before long, Jake doubled down […]
When the Trail Blazers drafted Jake, the couple faced another challenge. “For me, obviously, I had no choice,” Jake said. “That’s where I was going. But for Jasmine, it was a choice to be made about going with me all the way across the country. She had a tough choice to make.”Before long, Jake doubled down on his commitment to their relationship and requested Jasmine and their dogs to move to Portland with him. “I feel like Jake and I’s balance has never been, ‘I’m going to follow you and watch you play basketball,’ I’ve always done my own thing,” Jasmine said. “I was so worried,” Jasmine said. “But I stayed behind at first because I just needed to hear him say, ‘You come, I need you here. I can’t do this without you.’”“Of course, being without her was number one,” Jake said. “But I couldn’t be without my dogs either.”While Jake played for the Trail Blazers, Jasmine continued her Master’s degree and worked at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital.
