SpySpace
Whose space? MY SPACE!
Having covered the NBA for over 10 years now, there’s really not much that surprises me anymore. Ron Artest running into the stands, Stephen Jackson bucking shots outside a strip club, Shaq becoming a police officer and participating in raids. All good. But the recent discovery that Artest and Jackson both have myspace pages? Yeah, that one sort of caught me offguard.
Don’t get me wrong, I have a myspace page, too (find it if you can). But I’m not an NBA player who probably already has more attention than they can handle. And at least Artest’s page focuses on his album and label, providing grassroots marketing opportunities for his tours and whatever. Jack, I don’t know why Jack has one. Although, from going through his friends list, you can sort of see why he was at a strip club at 3 a.m.
I’ve looked for other NBA players, and the only one I’ve found so far has been Fred Jones. Is this an Indiana thing? Do I just not understand? Or am I just not looking hard enough?
19 Responses to “SpySpace”
Oct.27 at 8:06 pm
Joe says:
Is this like a game? Where is Russ on MySpace?
Oct.27 at 8:10 pm
marcel mutoni says:
russ,damn man, i had just found J.O’s myspace page last night and planned on writing about it. oh well, here it is (not entirely certain it’s a real one, but it bears a striking resemblance to Jack’s): http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=64258535 must be an indiana thing
Oct.27 at 8:21 pm
Brian says:
Ben Gordon, Kirk Hinrich, Nate Robinson, Charlie Villanueva - a bunch of the young dudes have them. It’s hard to wade through the fakes.
Oct.27 at 8:49 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Wow, I just looked up some of those guys above and was led into an entire web of NBA profiles, most of which were pretty damn bad. It’s a scary world out there on the interweb.
Oct.27 at 11:49 pm
Patrick says:
i’ve seen ingudala’s and JC on NY, as well as the Nate Robinson one.
Oct.28 at 1:04 am
DP says:
don’t believe in that crap. i got a facebook. myspace will get you on how to catch a predator on abc. play wit it.
Oct.28 at 7:00 am
Boing Dynasty says:
Definetly an Indiana thing, http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=64258535
Oct.28 at 12:43 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
Papoose has a new song called “Friend Request” where he talks about being double platinum on myspace.
Oct.29 at 1:59 am
Boing Dynasty says:
pa-poose, pa–pooose?
Oct.29 at 2:22 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
yes papoose. It’s the song that will finally end rap music. Red R.I.P. I just smoked a whole cigar for you.
Oct.29 at 5:40 am
Darksaber says:
Peace to the great Auerbach. A unique person. And WOOH’S! my space page is just tooo much. The term golddigger is redefined by his friends page, holy poledancer!!!
Oct.29 at 9:19 am
Alex says:
Earl Barron http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=38350573
Oct.29 at 3:24 pm
H to the izzo says:
They just don’t make em’ like Red anymore(R.I.P) and don’t believe in most of the celebs on myspace there fake-I feel like a cigar -anyone else?
Oct.29 at 6:47 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
How the FUCK was Red Auerbach only 89?? It seemed like he had to be at least 150 years old. Oh well, to say he lived a full life would be a massive understatement.
Oct.29 at 10:53 pm
Gord says:
Just check SLAM’s myspace page…it has a ton of NBA friends..although I have no way of knowing if any of them are real…
Oct.30 at 3:36 am
Russ Bengtson says:
I would totally check SLAM’s myspace page if it wasn’t set to private. LAME. Unless, of course, that was a fake SLAM page I was looking at.
Oct.30 at 10:08 am
Mrs. Arenas says:
Everyone knows my hubby got a myspace page.
Oct.30 at 11:14 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
If you want to be friends with SLAM, the email address is emailslamonline@gmail.com and the first name last name is SLAM Magazine. I don’t see why people have been struggling with this. I have made it a public profile and yet myspace doesn’t want to listen.
Nov.3 at 1:19 pm
thunderdan says:
Richard Jefferson has two, one fan one and one only his friends know about (my wife knows him from high school)