Player Wives & Girlfriends

UPDATE: 09-21-2011: Well, that didn't take long. Ron Artest Metta World Peace has become the first contestant to be eliminated from season 13 of Dancing with the Stars.

08-30-2011: The perpetual news machine that is Ron Artest keeps on rolling. Ron Ron Artest has been announced as a contestant on season 13 of Dancing with the Stars!

07-26-2011: And the hits just don't stop coming with Ron Artest, who clearly refuses to be out of the spotlight for even one day. What now, you ask? Well, it looks like Ron Ron fully embraced his newly admitted but long standing divorce by sexting with complete strangers. And then sending this girl photos of his dong. What is with athletes these days? STOP SENDING DICK PHOTOS! Unless you're hung like Greg Oden, no one wants to see your penis. Anyway, I don't have the will to actually write up something long on this, so check out the photo (blurred) to the right and then head on over to Deadspin and read this for yourself.

07-25-2011: A few things today. First, it looks like all of the confusion surrounding Ron Artest's wife Kimsha and his supposed girlfriend Shin Shin is with good reason. As it turns out, he has actually been divorced from Kimsha since June of 2009! Also, there are rumors floating around that Kimsha will be the latest NBA wife turned divorcee to star in Basketball Wives. Who cares? Not us.

06-25-2011: With the name confusion of his wife apparently not enough, Ron Artest is petitioning the courts so that he can legally change his name to Metta World Peace. At least that's easier to spell than Kimsha, or Kimesha or Kimisha...

06-08-2011: HUGE NEWS! According to Ron Artest's own Twitter feed, his wife's name is Kimsha Artest. And, side note (not really important at all) she will apparently be starring in her own reality TV show soon.

Ron Artest's Wife Kimsha Artest (Hatfield), at least according to the Internet, is a woman with a name of many spellings. With sites referring to her as Kimisha Hatfield, Kimesha Hatfield and Kimsha Artest. Even ESPN, which one would assume would have the facts correct, referred to her with two different spellings. SI Kids even provided their own spelling not found anywhere else, though I'm really confused as to why a magazine for kids would touch Ron Artest with a ten foot pole. Long story short, I basically just picked one out of a hat, so if you know her real name - hit us up.

Kimisha Hatfield was Ron Artest's girlfriend in high school. They finally wed once Ron Ron made the NBA and have four children together.

09-21-2011: Looks like it's time for Ron Artest to head home to his wife - Ron Ron, now referred to legally as Metta World Peace, has been eliminated from season 13 of Dancing with the Stars.

08-30-2011: Ron Artest's girlfriend, Ron Artest's wife - who cares? Huge news today, Ron Artest has been announced as a contestant on season 13 of Dancing with the Stars!

06-25-2011: As if his behavior up until now wasn't strange enough, Ron Artest has recently filed paperwork to legally change his name to Metta World Peace. It's hard to make something like world peace seem crazy, but I think Ron has managed to do that.

Despite Ron Artest's wife Kimisha Hatfield's existence, Ron has been seen out lately quite a bit with a woman who isn't his wife. From various reports around the Internet, it appears that there is a distinct possibility that Ron Artest's girlfriend is Shin Shin, a singer of Chinese and Korean descent. Based on the sheer number of times they have appeared in public together, and the poses they choose to take for cameras, it looks pretty obvious to us that Shin Shin is in Ron Artest's life. Or, if you believe him, she is simply "talent" that he signed to his record label Tru Warier. Too bad she isn't actually listed on his website, which definitely brings into question the validity of that. Anyone's guess as to how Ron Artest's wife feels about this, but based on her appearance - I'm sensing another brawl in the Palace style fight on the horizon for those two. Given Ron Ron's recent suspension from game 3 of the Western Conference semi-finals against the Mavericks, it seems like he'll have some extra down time to sort out his wife versus girlfriend situation.

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