First Ladies of the NBA

Dear Speaking the Truth - I know what magazine this is. However, when Essence decided to showcase "NBA Wives or First Ladies of the NBA", regardless of how you feel about Kobe and Vanessa, Vanessa is a NBA WIFE and NOT a baby momma or a girlfriend. That alone was my point.

Posted at 4:14PM on May 29th 2009 by LA LAKER FAN

I hope the long time "fiancee's" of these men get to love themselves and their children enough to have these men to take time out to make a decision to marry them. Though it is their chose, some men use the term "fiancee" to keep hold of a girlfriend with a promise to marry them. As long as these women keep having kids and accepting this, they will always be a "fiancee". If you are really a 1st lady in his life, he will respect you and love you enough to marry you. But remember, people will treat you they way you let them. Be independent with or without a man, and when your children see this, hopefully they will want better for themselves. Be blessed.

Posted at 4:09PM on May 29th 2009 by brown queen

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Posted at 3:55PM on May 29th 2009 by tst

The comments meal ticket, babymama, etc., why do we need to be HATERS. Your comments are slaps at the women of theses men are boys with a lot of money. You need to wonder why a woman would lay are wait for a man for money, what does she think of herself. Why does she not want for herself, why would she allow her self to follow a man to keep that man? Why do black men with money, need white skin to make them happy, why do they need women that have no self worth? Why do we need to belittle our damaged people? These are people that hit the lotto and have money for a time, but they also have issues. Why are we not helping them with the issues? Let’s talk about how a dark brother can learn to love his color and not want to purge it with white to create a better self image. How a women can gain self worth without, sleeping with a man or putting down another women. Black families are in crisis and we need to start helping fix the problem, not be the noise in the background.

Posted at 3:43PM on May 29th 2009 by VonDosta Fuller

Idalis, we can READ...the lead in of this article is titled "Inside the Lives of NBA Wiwes" than after you click into the story it goes to "First Ladies of the NBA"

Posted at 3:21PM on May 29th 2009 by Speaking The Truth

I agree with all the comments regard wives vs baby mamas. If these were truly 'first ladies' these men would've married them already, before the women birthed their beloved meal tickets, I mean children. I don't doubt they really love the men they are with, but keeping his house and bearing his children without the benefit of respectable marriage gives these guys easy out from being real men.

Posted at 3:16PM on May 29th 2009 by athenanike

Dolly, I hear you...Piper Billups is chocolate! Kevin Garnet's wife is not as cute as she thinks she is, I think they look weird together.

Posted at 3:11PM on May 29th 2009 by S

Piper Billups is a true class act and has raised some wonderful daughters - nice to see her featured here albeit just a small mention. Essence is so BS with its favoritism of fair-skinned black women. "La La" isn't even a wife - she's a baby mama. She should not be on here.

Posted at 3:10PM on May 29th 2009 by Go Piper

Come on readers ... read what you see, not what you want to see! The photos are titled "First LADIES of the NBA" not wives!

Posted at 3:09PM on May 29th 2009 by Idalis

Dear La Laker Fan, This is Essence magazine not Hispanic woman magazine. That is why you don't see "My mother let me date a black guy in his 20s when I was still in high school because he was rich and famous. She even let me drop out of high school" Vanessa and "I should have listen to my parents and married a nice black girl from a good family" Kobe. Lala Vasquez is a black Hispanic although she tries to be something else. If her surname was Vallens instead of Vasquez, she would be just another black woman.

Posted at 3:06PM on May 29th 2009 by Speaking The Truth