CHARLOTTE – All-Star Weekend is truly a celebration. It’s about paying tribute to the game and honoring its players and fans. For Nikola Vucevic, it’s also about a dream turned into a reality.
Growing up in Montenegro, Vucevic idolized NBA stars like Dirk Nowitzki and fantasized about one day playing the game on the world’s biggest stage.
As he touched down in Charlotte around midnight on Friday, the 7-foot center’s emotions started to set in. Not only was he officially an All-Star, one that would soon take the court with one of his childhood heroes, Nowitzki, but he was doing it with his high-school sweetheart turned wife, Nikoleta, and newborn son, Filip, by his side.