Player Wives & Girlfriends

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It's taken a while for Raymond Felton to get the recognition he's earned through his 8+ years in the Association. After being drafted 5th overall in 2005, Felton has bounced around the league playing for the Nuggets, Bobcats, Trail Blazers, and now on his second stint with the Knicks. After Felton has finally started getting some dap for running point for the 2nd seeded Knicks, I was stunned to look back at his career numbers. Felton has averaged more than 6.5 assists in 6 of his 8 pro seasons and accumulated a career scoring average of 13.5 points per game. While not All Star numbers, there's probably 25 other teams in the league who would take a solid vet to guarantee them numbers like that on a nightly basis.

With Felton not previously jumping off the page to anyone (including PlayerWives.com), we were remiss in not looking into his relationship status. After some looking (OK, we Googled it), we found Raymond Felton's wife Ariane Raymondo-Felton. While not a whole lot is known about Ariane, we have learned that she is a Cornell graduate from the class of 2009, who was born in 1987. Ariane was Ray Felton's girlfriend for a number of years before the couple tied the knot on July 28, 2012 in Wake Forest, NC in a lavish ceremony in front of friends and family.

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The details behind how exactly Steve Novak's wife Christina Novak first entered his life are a little hazy.

The story we've found says that the first time Steve and Christina talked was during the Final Four in New Orleans. Despite the fact Steve and Christina were in the same communications class, the two never talked, and it apparently wasn't until the Marquette Golden Eagles made the Final Four that things started to heat up. Most remember the Marquette Final Four team because of Dwayne Wade but Novak played a major role as a freshman. At some point during the Final Four, Christina made the journey from Milwaukee to New Orleans, and she and Steve hit it off. Try to help me understand this because I have a few questions. Did she drive to New Orleans in order to see Marquette play and just happened to bump into Novak while in New Orleans? Was her intention the entire time to drive to New Orleans and meet Steve? I mean they were in the same freshman class but from all reports never talked yet somehow found each other at the Final Four. Keep in mind the Marquette to New Orleans drive isn't like going to the local market, it's about a 20 hour drive. When did Steve find time between, oh I don't know trying to win a National Championship, to meet Christina. Look I'll give the couple the benefit of the doubt since they did end up marrying but I'm something isn't adding up here. I'm clearly missing something in the meeting story they're selling.

Regardless of how they met Steve and Christina did get married in July of 2007 after Steve proposed at a Chicago White Sox game. The couple now resides in New York with Steve serving the role of 3-point specialist for the New York Knicks.

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Say what you want about J.R. Smith (and there certainly is a lot to say), but he is 1) having an insanely good year for the New York Knicks and 2) he looooooooves himself some booty shots on Twitter. Everyone remembers back in March of 2012 when J.R. Smith's girlfriend Tahiry Jose's backside made an appearance on his Twitter feed. While most people had a good laugh over the photo there was one person not laughing. That was of course David Stern, who fined J.R. $25K for the Twitter picture. Apparently J.R. didn't fully learn his lesson as we all got another booty shot in early December, this one of his new girlfriend Kimberly Michelle Pate.

K Michelle, as she is known in the hip-hop world, is a singer and one of the fine ladies on VH1's “Love And Hip Hop Atlanta”. This picture isn't quite as risque as the first booty shot back in March but there is still a lot of booty to love. So much booty that someone from the Knicks or maybe even K Michelle herself got J.R. to quickly take the post down. So while J.R. still hasn't figured out that posting the picture is a bad idea he has learned to take the picture down shortly after posting it so we do have some baby steps with J.R.

As we mentioned K Michelle is one of the stars on the hit VH1 show. The show has also earned her a multimillion dollar lawsuit from MeMpHiTz. See MeMpHiTz and K Michelle not only dated but he was her manager. That relationship ended and on the show K Michelle, while not naming who she was talking about, said her ex-lover and manager abused her. Of course everyone assumed she was talking about MeMpHiTz so he filed the a defamation of character lawsuit. One other interesting tidbit on K Michelle is she has a five year old son Chase. Her first album should drop sometime in the summer of 2013. Maybe she can use the photo J.R. took as her album cover.