Jessica Olsson, sister to Martin Olsson, and Marcus Olsson, is an associate director of the Goss-Michael Foundation art gallery in Dallas, Texas, and engaged to NBA Basketball star, Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks.

Jessica Olsson and Dirk NowitzkiThe engagement happened on Valentine’s Day and was widely reported in Germany and Sweden, but largely ignored in the U.S.   Folks speculate that it could be because there were so many false statements put out about them being engaged that nobody was sure if this was indeed an actual engagement.  Nonetheless there were finally confirmations from the couple and the ring.

Guess the Kenyans now have a basketball wife.   Congratulations Jessica and Dirk!

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I write because I have to. It is the breath of my soul. Words free me; I express my pain, my joy, my anguish, my ecstasy in written world. It is what I am. To quench the thirst for the written word, I work as Editor-in-Chief for Jamati Online, Managing Web Editor for Global Woman Magazine, and an Ethnic Events Examiner for the Baltimore Examiner.

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  2. [...] After winning the championship against the Miami Heat, and then taking home two awards at the ESPYs (Best Male Athlete and Best NBA Player) in 2011, Dirk Nowitzki’s stock soared with eligible women.  His crew, the Dallas Mavericks, also won an ESPY for Best Team.  But to the chagrin of single ladies all over the recession-plagued globe, Dirk Nowitzki succumbed to his latest bout of jungle fever and went on and did the damn thang with Kenyan Jessica Olsson. [...]

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