{"id":236648,"date":"2025-10-19T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236648\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:08:09","slug":"who-is-nikola-jokics-wife-natalija-jokic-all-you-need-to-know-about-denver-nuggets-icons-partner-and-family-life-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236648\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Nikola Jokic\u2019s wife Natalija Jokic? All you need to know about Denver Nuggets icon’s partner and family life | NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhoNikola Jokic is happily married (Image via Getty Images) As the focal point of the Denver Nuggets<\/a>, Nikola Jokic has received many awards. But beyond the basketball court, he prefers spending time with his devoted family. His biggest supporter is his wife, Natalija Jokic. Wife of Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, Natalija Jokic never fails to support him. The power couple in September 2021 also gave birth to daughter Ognjena. Natalija Jokic is Nikola Jokic’s wife. They were married in Sombor, Serbia in October 2020.<\/p>\n

Exploring Nikola Jokic\u2019s quiet love story and the family bond that keeps the MVP grounded<\/p>\n

Natalija Ma\u010de\u0161i\u0107, Nikola Jokic<\/a>‘s long-time partner, was his wife. She completed her studies in psychology at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota. Since their early years in Serbia, they have been together. In addition to her passion for athletics, Ma\u010de\u0161i\u0107 played volleyball in an Oklahoma junior college. In 2013, the couple began dating, and in 2020, they were married. The couple has a daughter named Ognjena Jokic together, and in November 2011, a son is due. Nikola and Natalija Jokic’s romance began when they were in high school in Sombor, Serbia. The affection between the two has persisted throughout Nikola’s basketball<\/a> career and extends back to their high school years. But they relocated to Denver, USA, after Nikola signed the Denver Nuggets in 2015. Photos Natalija posted to Instagram<\/a> document the moments they have spent together since they were 17. In January 2020, upon their relocation to Denver, they became engaged. Following this, they were married in their native Serbia on October 24, 2020. Natalija posted images from the memorable day to her Instagram, writing, “favourite party of all time.” Photos and videos of the newlyweds dancing and singing were included in the post.Before every game, Nikola has been observed wearing his wedding band on his trainers as a custom. In spite of his busy schedule, he also tries to spend as much time as possible with his wife. They announced the birth of their daughter<\/a> in September 2021, not long after getting married. As Natalija said in a picture carousel from her baby shower:”Thank you 2021, you were my favorite so far.”Since the birth of their daughter, Ognjena, in September 2021, Nikola and Natalija have frequently been spotted supporting Nikola at his sporting events. They have given it the name Ognjena, which means “fiery” in Serbian. After his daughter was born, Nikola had an incredible season. He achieved this by taking home the NBA MVP trophy for two consecutive seasons. Natalija and Ognjena were seen applauding Nikola the loudest during the games. The well-known athlete has, however, talked candidly about the difficulties of parenting due to his busy schedule. He revealed in an interview with Arena TV, “I play 100 games away, I’m not home for 100 days. When I come home, Ognjena is different. Literally in five days, she changes you know.”Earlier that year, NIkola expressed to Serbia’s Arena TV how crucial his wife and daughter’s support had been to him.”I think all of us who have a wife and kids should be happy with the persons we have beside us,” he said in January 2023. “When you have a normal life, it lifts you up and only helps you.”In June 2023, Natalija even garnered media attention for her husband’s support when Altitude TV posted a video of her wearing a Nuggets shirt and supporting him in the stadium as Nikola and his team won their first NBA championship on X.<\/p>\n

Draymond Green names Nikola Jokic the most formidable and elusive force on the court<\/p>\n

Recently, Draymond Green<\/a> disclosed the most difficult defense he has ever encountered. In reference to the players of this age, Green expressed some concern about a certain individual during Kai Cenat’s live stream. He admitted that he still gets most of the players into a lot of trouble. Then he said: \u201cThe hardest now is Joker [Nikola Jokic]. I play with Steph, so I don\u2019t have that headache \u2026 Luka [Doncic] will always be one of the toughest, but that ain\u2019t my matchup. The hardest to guard right now is Joker.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jokic is said to be harder for players to guard because of his height and intelligence. He could distribute the ball in ways that others could not, and he could score whenever he chose. Green commended Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic and colleague Stephen Curry for being excellent defenders and congratulated Jokic for being the hardest player in the game to guard.Also read: What is Nikola Jokic’s net worth? Salary and endorsement deals explored as Miami Heat star receives bold prediction from NBA Hall of Famer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic is happily married (Image via Getty Images) As the focal point of the Denver Nuggets, Nikola…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[130989,1753,130988,74465,4136,130987,355,130986,99],"class_list":["post-236648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-daughter-ognjena","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-denver-nuggets-star","tag-family-life","tag-instagram","tag-natalija-jokic","tag-nba","tag-nikola-jokic-wife","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}