Basketball Wives Season 2 Finale: Evelyn vs. Tami

For my weekly dose of reality trash TV, Basketball Wives gave me my fix.

I never liked the beautiful on the outside but ugly on the inside Evelyn Lozada from the first season. She came across as superficial, catty and downright immature. She is in her thirties with a 17 year old daughter and she acts like as Royce said "a mean girl".

Newcomer Tami Roman who was only acquainted with producer and now regular cast member Shaunie O'Neal but she was "building friendships" with the other castmates during the course of the season. Tami seemed to be the realest to me although I do not quite understand her admiration and respect for Evelyn even before the secret was revealed.

At Jennifer's birthday dinner, Evelyn confessed that she had dated Tami's ex-husband, former basketball player Kenny Anderson, for 6 months back in 1999 and had sex with him twice while he was still married to Ms. Tami! She claimed she did not know what he was married at the time and never knew that Tami existed.

While that is understandable, these are the things that bothered me about the episode:

1. Exactly how many athletes has Evelyn dated? There was Kenny in 1999 then she was with Antoine Walker for ten years and now she is engaged to Chad Ochocinco. We only found out about Kenny because Tami was on the show but how many more are there? Does she just happen to hang out at all the athlete hot spots to meet these guys?

2. Did anyone spot the girl eating with Shaunie in the first scene with the shaved half of her head that was slicked down with gel? These are the women in this supposedly high class circle? 

3. Jennifer needs new friends. Although I am not a fan of her husband Eric Williams and the way he treats her but he was right when he ridiculed her for having Evelyn as a friend and confidant. He said that he knew Evelyn before Jennifer making us wonder if he already knew about Kenny and perhaps some other underground moves.

4. Why is Gloria still featured on the show? If Shaunie is the producer and they are supposed enemies because Gloria's sister allegedly slept with Shaq (See article where Gloria's sister speaks out), then why does Shaunie still have her on the show? A staged beef for the camera?

5. This big season finale showdown between Evelyn and Tami was obviously egged on by the producers. Someone told Tami the secret when Evelyn was not ready to tell her and it just so happened that this was revealed in the season finale?

6. After the finale aired, TMZ reported that Evelyn felt betrayed by the show's producers saying that the relationship secret was not to be aired and they told it to Tami to provoke a fight. So ahhh Evelyn - you revealed this "secret" while cameras were rolling with a microphone as you star on a reality show and you are mad it got out? Media whore.

For those who do not watch, check out this edited video of the altercation featuring interview snippets of the cast members: