NBA players who married celebrities

#9 Jrue Holiday and Lauren Holiday

Jrue Holiday and Lauren Holiday

The New Orleans Pelicans combo guard married the United States women's national soccer team midfielder Lauren Cheney. The two first met at a UCLA women's basketball game during his only season at the school. At the time, both were in relationships with others, but became friends, and began dating after he was drafted by the Sixers. They later began hosting annual combo basketball and soccer clinics at UCLA.

In September 2016, Holiday took an indefinite leave from the Pelicans to take care of his wife, after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The following month, Lauren had brain surgery only weeks after giving birth to the couple's first child, a daughter, named Jrue Tyler Holiday.