Despite the significance of nickel compounds, NMR spectroscopy of the active nickel isotope Ni remains a largely unexplored field. While nickel(0) compounds have been studied byNi NMR in solution, solid-state experiments have been limited to Knight shift studies of nickel metal and nickel intermetallics. In conjunction with an NMR study of their ligands and Ni relativistic computations, the firstNi solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectra of diamagnetic compounds are reported here. Specifically, bis(1,5-cyclooctadiene)nickel(0) [Ni(cod)], tetrakis(triphenylphosphite)nickel(0) [Ni[P(OPh)]], and tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)nickel(0) [Ni(PPh)] were studied. Ni SSNMR spectra of Ni(cod) were used to determine its isotropic chemical shift (δ = 965 ± 10 ppm), span (Ω = 1700 ± 50 ppm), skew (κ = -0.15 ± 0.05), quadrupolar coupling constant (C = 2.0 ± 0.3 MHz), quadrupolar asymmetry parameter (η = 0.5 ± 0.2), and the relative orientation of the chemical shift and electric field gradient tensors. A solution study of Ni(cod) in CD yielded a narrow Ni signal, and the temperature dependence of δ(Ni) was assessed (δ being 936.5 ppm at 295 K). The solution is proposed as a secondary chemical shift reference for Ni NMR in lieu of the extremely toxic Ni(CO) primary reference. For Ni[P(OPh)], Ni SSNMR was used to infer the presence of two distinct crystallographic sites and establish ranges for δ in the solid state, as well as an upper bound for C (3.5 MHz for both sites). For Ni(PPh), line shape fitting provided a δ value of 515 ± 10 ppm, Ω of 50 ± 50 ppm, κ of 0.5 ± 0.5, C of 0.05 ± 0.01 MHz, and η of 0.0 ± 0.2. The study of Ni(PPh), in particular, demonstrates the utility of Ni SSNMR given the lack of a previously reported crystal structure and transient nature of Ni(PPh) in solution.