Hunter Mar and Zach LaVine were high school sweethearts and the relationship carried on throughout both of their journeys. While LaVine would go on to play basketball at UCLA, Mar went and played soccer at Seattle University.
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The two were able to make the long distance relationship hold up during that time.LaVine proposed to Mar during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, making the most out of being quarantined.
Mar said yes, by the way, as their dog looked on photobombing the scene in hilarious fashion. The rest as they say, is history.
As far as LaVine’s basketball career and Mar’s support of it, the guard for the Chicago Bulls really burst onto the scene in the 2020-21 season, making his first All-Star appearance.Mar was an athlete herself in college, so the competitive side lives within both of them.
That could not have been more apparent than when Mar posted on her Instagram the time the two played Monopoly against each other.Their first child, a son, was born in August 2022.
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Zachary Thomas LaVine is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected in the first round of the 2014 NBA draft as the 13th overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
A two-time Slam Dunk Contest champion, he was named an NBA All-Star in 2021 and 2022. He also won a gold medal on the 2020 U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo.
LaVine grew up in the Seattle area, where he was honoured as the state’s top high school player. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. After one season at UCLA, he entered the NBA after being named one of the top freshmen in the Pac-12 Conference.
As a rookie with Minnesota, LaVine won the league’s Slam Dunk Contest and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. In 2016, he became the fourth NBA player to ever win consecutive dunk contests. He was traded to Chicago in 2017.


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