Luka Doncic is a dad!
The 24-year-old NBA player and his 25-year-old fiancée, Anamaria Goltes, announced their first child’s arrival on Instagram on Friday.
In the stunning announcement shot, Doncic and Goltes both held one of their baby daughters’ hands while revealing that the girl’s name is Gabriela.
The baby announcement was made only hours after the NBA declared that Doncic would miss Friday’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies because of “personal reasons.”
In March 2020, Goltes revealed how she and Doncic first met in an Instagram Story Q&A.
“I answered this question like a million times. We met when we were 12 years old at the seaside in Croatia,” she said (via the New York Post). “Fun fact: We still have the same group of friends we had at that time. You keep the real ones, am I right?”
On July 7, 2023, after seven years of dating—a date that may be a reference to his jersey number, 77—Doncic dropped down on one knee and proposed to Goltes.
The special moment happened at Lake Bled in Slovenia, with the basketball player captioning their engagement announcement on Instagram, “️ 7.7.”