No Longer A Free Agent? NBA Star Dirk Nowitzki and Fiancee Jessica Olsson Reportedly Tied the Knot In Africa

July 16th, 2012 - By Alissa Henry
"Dirk Nowitzki and Jessica Olsoon"

Source: Zimbio.com

Engaged in Germany and married in Africa, Dallas Maverick’s Dirk Nowitzki and Jessica Olsson’s love is worldwide.

Jessica is the associate director of the Goss-Michael Foundation art gallery in Dallas and the couple met in 2009. In the past Dirk has talked about their relationship saying:

Jessica is probably the best thing that happened to me this year. After the incidents in 2009, I never thought that I would [fall in love again] so quickly. She is a great woman, smart and intelligent. Now let’s see just how that develops over time with us. It feels great in any case, we wait for what will come of it.

The NBA star popped the question on Valentine’s Day this year and Hello Beautiful is reporting that the two tied the knot in Kenya this weekend. Paparrazi isn’t exactly staked out in the motherland so there haven’t been any pictures from the nuptials yet. Jessica’s mother is Kenyan and her father is Swedish.

Dirk was engaged to a black woman before named Cristal Taylor. In 2009, she was sentenced to five years in prison for old forgery and theft crimes, effectively ending their relationship. The two lived together when she got arrested and she claimed to be pregnant with Dirk’s child. She wasn’t pregnant at all, but she did say she kept the 200-thousand dollar engagement ring he’d given her. Back then Dirk told the The Dallas Morning News:

I still want to have a family, but the wounds have to heal first. I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

Well, if he did get married this weekend then it looks like his dreams of having a family are beginning to come true.

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  • Mystique

    I’m happy for the both of them. He found him a sistah.

  • myName

    funny how they never focus on white men/black women couples in the nba. only the other way around. this story will never make the mainstream news – unless she punches him or something.

  • gmarie

    Maybe it’s because I just skimmed the article but I don’t see the big deal here?…It states the couple was married in Africa..does a specific country NEED to be identified? What would be the difference if the article had said they were married in South America, or in Europe? Much ado about nothing. ijs ijs ijs

  • Sonya

    I don’t get why everyone is trying to correct the article. The author didn’t say that Africa was a country. She just said they got married there and Kenya is within Africa so she is correct. Maybe that’s all she knew is that they were married within Africa. Correct. Geez….

  • jozi

    Congrats to them! Now this is what I like to see!

  • Shade

    Now that we;re over the error :-/ CONGRATS TO THE LOVELY COUPLE. She is GORG!

  • Lola

    But, but, but studies show that white men don’t find black women desirable. Idiots! Where are their so-called statistics now?

    Anyhow, congratulations to the happy, beautiful couple!!

    • Beckers

      Technically he’s German but yea you’re still right I live dirk an I’m happy for him and her

      • awet

        He’s still a white man!

    • Hmmmmmm

      You’re trying to be incendiary for no reason. Everyone knows white men are attracted to black women. It is/has been less taboo than than the alternative. Perhaps this is some kind of validation for you, and if it makes you feel better so be it. Google the Lovings and you will see that America has no problem with this union. And it is all good.

      • mindypatterson

        lol uuummm she was being sarcastic.

    • http://www.facebook.com/minkysmom82 Alexis Morris

      I don’t know who they were studying but almost all of my bf’s were white.

    • truthbtold

      White men love black women. The difference between white men and white women is that the white women don’t care what others think of them dating outside their race, but, white men do care about what other people think.

  • B

    It could be hard to love again after such tragedy. Glad he found lasting love the second time around. She is a gorgeous woman.

  • Tagirl

    Good for him. That situation with the last one was crazy and very public. So it’s good that he found love again.

  • Tbaby

    I’m happy for him. I’m glad to see that he was able to find happiness and with a sista no less. You go you two.

  • ilovemovies2

    Africa is a continent -South Africa is a country. So where did they get married? lol

    • Beckersbecbec

      Kenya where She’s from

  • http://GyooriN.com/ Aniko

    She’s goregous!

  • lady85

    Congrats to them, it’s tough to trust anyone after a situation like his last fiance. good for him

  • bkabbagej

    I know that’s right; exactly what country in Africa were they married in?

    • Becbec9

      Kenya that’s where she’s from

  • mj

    since Africa isn’t a country…where exactly did they get married?

    • Anonymous

      Kenya. People need to study their African countries.

    • africana

      THANK YOU!!!! at last count the continent of Africa had 54 countries and none of them is called Africa…

    • Gladys

      Thank YOU! I was just about to say the same thing..as an African I’m sick of reading this on African-American blogs