For those who don’t know: “blather” means to ramble on endlessly without saying much at all. That pretty much sums up the cast that Shaunie O’Neal and her producers assembled for the Basketball Wives spin-off, Basketball Wives Los Angeles.
The season premiere aired last night and quickly became the subject of scorn, ridicule and contempt on Twitter.com. Of course, minutes after they meet, a fight breaks out inside — where else — a nice restaurant. Nothing we didn’t expect from the original BBW.
The “extras” who are dining behind the chicks don’t even turn around to see what is going on — just like in the original BBW.
If Shaunie was going to hand these ladies the same script that she gave to the original Miami crew, she should have at least called it Basketball Wives part 2.
As mentioned before, BBW LA follows the same ghetto script as the original: pointless fighting, pointless arguing weave snatching, and mindless shopping sprees where they spend money that we don’t actually see. The only thing we didn’t see last night was water tossing, but that’s coming soon.
Just like in the original, this spin-off targets women who believe pretty much everything they see on TV (and on the blogs). Let’s pretend that we really believe Gloria Govan, fiancee of Matt Barnes, met cast member Draya Michelle (Chris Brown’s ex) in an acting class. 
And let’s pretend that Laura Govan, Gloria’s sister and Gilbert Arenas’ baby mama, isn’t on the show because she has unexplained anger issues, and therefore can be counted on to act the fool on cue.
It’s obvious to everyone who watched last night’s episode (myself included) that Draya is being cast in the “Royce” role from the original Miami franchise. Draya, who famously got arrested for leaving her son home alone while she worked the pole at a local strip club, was shunned by the others who feel intimidated by her youth and beauty, though she doesn’t have much in the way of brains.
Malaysia Pargo, who is actually married to a NBA player (Jannero Pargo of Chicago Bulls), repeatedly reminds the cast — and Kimsha in particular — that she’s originally from Compton. Oooh!
Kimsha Artest (Ron Artest’s baby mama) doesn’t fit into this crew at all — and she knows it. My spies tell me that Kimsha is really a sweetheart. But, unfortunately, the script doesn’t call for sweethearts. So Kimsha puts on her crazy bish face and immediately goes to war with Malaysia and ’em to prove she’s worthy of Shaunie choosing her for the cast.
Imani Showalter, ex-fiancee of Stephen Jackson, is another bitter baby mama who immediately takes a disliking to Malaysia because the girl managed to stay married to her ATM machine.
The day after the introductory dinner, the ladies are introduced to Tanya Williams, an inspirational speaker and the estranged wife of Jayson Williams, and Jackie Christie (above), who has been married to player Doug Christie for seventeen years. Jackie irks the other ladies because she gets remarried to her husband every year (to keep the dopamine juices flowing).
Tanya Williams, the inspirational speaker, doesn’t say much once the fur starts flying. And you wonder why she’s even in the cast in the first place.
Below are scenes from last night’s premiere episode. A full video will be added as soon as one becomes available.
Source: VH1 blog
