Following Game 1 of the NBA Finals, Nikola Jokic and his wife Natalija, who had been close friends since high school, got even more romantically involved.

They both began dating in 2013 and are 28 years old. They maintained a long-distance romance despite attending different colleges—Natalija played volleyball at Seminole State College in Oklahoma.Nikola was selected in the 2015 NBA Draft and signed with the Denver Nuggets, while Natalija moved to Denver to finish her psychology degree.

They had to reschedule their wedding plans due to the epidemic, so they married in a covert ceremony in October 2020. Their daughter, Ognjena Jokic, was born in September 2022.Natalija routinely shares photographs of their daughter on social media.

Their daughter encouraged Nikola to win the championship by pointing to Natalija’s ring finger in a widely shared NBA playoffs video, and he reciprocated.

Natalija will be in Denver to support her husband and the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Finals, which begin on Thursday against the Miami Heat.

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