Spring is almost here, which means NBA babies are going to be popping like popcorn: Gilbert Arenas is expecting a boy within a week or two, there will be a new Baby LeBron in June, and Carmelo and his fiancée, LaLa Vasquez, are expecting the arrival of their baby boy sometime next week (Update: 'Melo's and LaLa's baby is finally here!).
Oh, Boy!
These major ballers expecting stork deliveries are also fellas who don't seem to put too much credence into that old "first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Mary with a baby carriage" arrangement.
Tiny Gil, Baby 'Bron, and Little 'Melo will all be born to parents who haven't taken that bounce down the aisle.
Apparently, ring bling is highly overrated when knocking a girl up.
And that's not just baller mentality. An ABC News poll last year revealed that more than half of all Americans now think having a baby out of wedlock is morally acceptable.
So I won't harp on the lack of "I Do's," but I will suggest using an umbrella if you don't have a fat NBA wallet to weather the storm.
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By: James on 3/02/2007 4:55PM
Men of wealth are tired of giving half of their fortunes away for a marriage that does not have a 50% chance of survival
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By: Jennifer on 3/02/2007 8:13PM
These knuckleheads aren't doing anything else negroes aren't already doing in the hood. (You would think they'd gain an ounce of class with the money they've now have, but like the saying goes - you can take the negro out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the negro. The only difference in their cases is that these women who are getting pregnant by these guys probably have an agenda, and that is to simply to guarantee a pay day.
One more point - Just because one has money doesn't mean they are exempt from upholding morals and values.
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By: Mario Sobers on 3/03/2007 6:55AM
I am a sigle father and have taken on a task of love for my child. A task that is full of work on a daily level. It's a task that I love to do. My child is my world and what a beautiful. Has a dad that lost his wife to cancer my love for my daughter increased beyond words to describe. It's being done in the hood, I know it first hand. My daughter is five years old and I'm amazed at the task of how love works.
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By: M. Alexander on 3/03/2007 8:50AM
As long as these kids aren't raised in poverty, I don't care how many these guys father nor how much money the women may end up getting as a result of a busted relationship. At least I can feel secure in knowing that these women and children most likely won't end up on welfare !
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By: BARBARA CHERRY on 3/03/2007 9:30AM
just be damn. who need a ring to get the{groove-thing
0n? maybe somebody need to super-size some condons!!and ladies,if you gonna be pregnant,may as well be by a man who can afford their needs. for these smart mommies!!! you go girlz!!!
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By: Realbrother on 3/03/2007 10:44AM
The problem is with Bill Cosby, Oprah, Terry McMillian, Essence Magazine and the rest of the Black Lesbian Lobby(Alice Walker) and Black gay men(Tyler Perry, JL King) all bashing and berating Black men, it has created a Golddigging, Black Man Hating envoirnment, where Black women refuse to marry a Black man.
90% of Black women are NOT with Black men and that's because the HATRED of Black men by the enemies of the Black Race who know that if Black men are NOT allowed to head Black families our Race will become extinct.
The Gay lobby and the enemies of the Black Race (Planned Parenthood, the Condom Companies, Black Feminists) know what they are doing its up to US who opposed the genocide to stop them.
TKCAL
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By: Realbrother on 3/03/2007 11:03AM
Again, the HATRED that 90% of Black women have for Black men is the chief reason why the 80% of Single Black women raising Black girls are allowing those girls to grow up HATING Black men and only seeing Black men as good for a paycheck. Also, the HATRED that 90% of society has for Black men has caused up to 70% of Black women to seek love and comfort from other women.
Black Lesbians are at the forefront of this movement to remove the Black male from the home and Black family.
Many of these Black Lesbians are using the sperm and income of the NBA Players(Rappers, Singers, Actors, other athletes, business men ect.) to finance their relationships with other Black Lesbians(too manly to function in mainstream society).
Many of the Black Lesbians have amassed great wealth and are using the money to fund schools in Africa to train Black girls there to HATE Black men and embrace the Lesbian lifestyle.
TKCAL
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By: Patman on 3/04/2007 4:28PM
Well I see that Cheryl Thompson is just another black woman who thinks that black men are responsible for everything bad and wrong in the world and that black women have no control or responsibility over their own actions. I don't recall a single one of the mothers of these babies being forced to have unprotected sex against their will or forced to carry these children but Ms Cheryl, just like every other male basher, puts all the blame on the men and men only. i don't like this thing any more than anybody but it takes two to tango, doesn't it?
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By: 1raspberrymerlot on 3/03/2007 1:10PM
Realbrother you are one straight up hating, delusional, far removed black man. I've read some of your assine comments on BV and you need help. Better yet you need Jesus. What correlation is there between the people you mentioned who all happen to be in the public eye have to do with the athletes mentioned in getting their g/f's pregnant? It takes two to make a baby remember and here is a little biology 101 refresher for you. A man's sperm has to fertilize a woman's egg before she can become pregnant, therefore if the mans penis did not enter the womans vagina then no pregnancy would occur. So to put the majority of the blame on the woman, as you continuously have done over the years, is ludicrous. It doesn't matter whether or not the womans motives are wrong the man still has to enter the woman in order for a child to be produced. That's the nature of human creation even when it's done invitro, she sperm in the needle is still inserted into the woman. Got it?
Since your mindset is one of women teaching there daughters how to hate black men, what are they teaching their sons? Also, since you claim to be one who is an advocate for men's rights, I see it as a fool who is constantly showing how some black men are stupid by being with some black women because you constantly point it out. Get real man, you are a joke.
The bottom line is that although babies have been born out of wedlock since the beginning of time, this still is not the order in which God intended for things to go, but hey God gives man choices that's why man is the one destroying this world not woman.
Oh and one more thing, your percentage of 90% being based on black women hating black men, where is the statistcal analysis on that figure and the 70% of women being lesbians? You are so wrong on that one but hey I can't tell you how to think but I can point out your fallacious thinking.
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By: lynn on 3/03/2007 12:55PM
more children that will probably be abandoned by their fathers & more stupid gold diggers looking for some cash. people wake the hell up!
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