By: Fatima Roshni Image credit: People
Denver Nuggets Star player Nikola Jokic's dating life has remained a less media-driven topic, which has led him to remain in a good space in his relationship with Natalija Macesic.
High school sweethearts Nikola and Natalija's history goes back to the time when both were best friends for 10 years and were teenagers coming off of the same hometown in Sombor, Serbia.
They started dating in 2013, and the two were in a long-distance relationship after Nikola moved to the U.S. for college and Natalija moved to attend Seminole State College in Oklahoma to play volleyball.
With Nikola's 2015 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets, he, along with his elder brothers Strahinja and Nemanja, planned to get shifted to Denver and were also joined by Natalija, who left college.
Transferring to Metropolitan State University in Denver, she, along with his then-boyfriend and his brothers, stayed together in a three-bedroom apartment, pursuing a degree in psychology.
Staying together and building their bond, the duo became official after getting engaged in January 2020, following their marriage that got postponed for a while due to the pandemic.
Married on October 24, 2020, in a private ceremony in their native hometown of Sombor, pictures of the two were all over social media, adorned and blessed by everyone.
Within less than a year of their marriage, the two became parents to a girl, Ognjena, in September 2021. Since her birth, the mother-daughter duo has frequently shown their support for him.
The two are continuing to grow stronger with the birth of their child. Nikola shows his love by tying his wedding ring to his sneakers before every game and not letting it go off.
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