Are NBA players nervous about Basketball Wives?
There are a few players around the NBA with a bit of a knot in their stomachs, and it has nothing to do with the upcoming playoffs. “Basketball Wives”, a reality show chronicling the lives of current and former wives and girlfriends of NBA players, premieres on VH1 this Sunday at 10 p.m. “You hear through the grapevine, ‘Oh, the guys are so scared, that people are worried and the NBA is concerned and all that good stuff’,” said Shaunie O’Neal, the show’s executive producer and ex-wife of Shaquille O’Neal. “But I honestly don’t think they have anything to worry about at all. “I can’t wait for them to see it because I think that whatever they have in their minds that [the show] is going to be or could be, that’s not what it is. It’s really about the ladies and what they’re personally going through. It’s not putting anybody on blast or dogging any particular person.” The show follows women on various ends of the “basketball wife” spectrum: From Evelyn Lozada coping with her split from ex-
