The Reality Show You Need To Be Watching: Basketball Wives

Leave it to VH1 to come up with a reality show that is simultaneously abhorrent, addictive, and amazing.  This is the network that brought us Rock of Love, I Love New York, Chance At Love, and Celebrity Rehab (multiple seasons).  Having seen most of these shows, it really isn't very surprising that Basketball Wives is both so bad and so good.  Now in its second season, the series follows the "wives", girlfriends, and groupies of professional NBA players.  On Monday, the finale of season 2 aired and it was nothing less than a shitstorm.  The most controversial character on the show is New Yorker Evelyn Lozada who cannot say two sentences without four or five curse words, and who seems ready to fight with anything that moves at all times (in spite of what is clearly a heavily surgerized body and blonde weave).  Well, she messed with the wrong girl on the last episode.  After Tami, another one of the "wives" (actually, an ex-wife) reveals to the girls at dinner that she is so happy to have found a new group of friends (and she says all this while crying), Evelyn reveals that she dated Tami's husband Kenny Anderson (formerly of the Celtics) for 6 months while Tami was still married to him, claiming that they only had sex twice and that she did not know he was married.  Tami, who appears to be calmed by the presence of Shaunie O'Neal (Shaq's ex-wife) and Jennifer Williams, stands up but seems inclined to talk (or yell) it out, but then Evelyn yells "You were a non-factor, bitch!" and that's when Tami lunges for Evelyn as if she wants to kill her, with Evelyn yelling "No, STOP!!!"  As trashy as this show is, like Jersey Shore, it's addictive because it's like watching a train wreck over and over for 45 minutes.  Unfortunately, the season is over.  Can't wait for the next one!

Evelyn and Shaunie O'Neal.  As most of us know, Evelyn is now engaged to Cincinatti Bengals' Chad Ochocinco (who also had his own VH1 unreality show)