Basketball Wives, Part IV: A Bruised Heart.

I recently go put on blast for not knowing the relationship status of Ian Van Horne. Not only is he dating someone, a source (Ian) said they have actually gone and looked at a house together. Take that for what you want. So since I failed in my journalistic duties, I am here to make things right.

When I first got the idea for the Basketball Wives article, I approached Danny to see the best way going about getting the answers from the ladies. He told me that alot of the guys (including himself) would not feel comfortable with a guy as good looking and charming as me to be emailing back and forth with girlfriend and wives. So I decided just to let the men handle getting the questions answered. The next thing I talked with Danny about is who was dating someone and acquiring the names of the ladies. As I went through and asked Danny, "Is Beas?", "What about B-Mac? He got a little lady?" As someone who is going for a PCTI Blog: Mark Twain award, I should not have depended only on my knowledge and DK's knowledge of people with significant others. I did not take advantage of the creep machine, Facebook. For this I apologize. In hopes to make up to Bruise and his lover, here is the Basketball Wives, Part IV: A Bruised Heart.

In Part I of this series I covered all the single guys in PCTI. I made the mistake of clumping Ian Van Horne into this group. He should have been in Part II with the guys that have not made a life-long commitment to, but still have a woman standing behind them. As you know I have asked 4 questions to all the women of PCTI and I decided to reach out and correct this flaw I had and ask the same questions to Bruiser's favorite lady. As always the questions are first. Followed by her answers in red. [followed by my comments in black and in brackets]:

Allison Bell (Ian's Love Bug)

1. How long have you been with or married to your man? We’ve been together for over a year now. [Can we get a specific date?]

2. What is your current job and company? I’m a Financial Analyst for a healthcare company named CHS. [So you do their budget?]

3. Who do you think the best player in PCTI is? Since I haven’t really seen anyone play basketball, I will say Brent Carney. I say this partly because I loved hanging out with him back in the day and partly to make Ian mad. [Great answer. Another great nominee for non basketball skills!]

4. What are your true feelings for PCTI as a whole? When I first started dating Ian, I thought PCTI wasn’t that big of deal. I now realize PCTI is not just one weekend a year, it is 365 days a year. I think it’s cool that you all stay in touch and get together to relive your glory days, but I don’t really want to hear all the details. And I will say, Ian is pretty good at not talking about it much with me because he knows I start to tune him out. However, last night I took him out for his birthday dinner and when we got home, he put in one of the old tapes to watch. I started reading my book, completely ignoring the tv, when I hear “AB! You missed my lay up! Watch it again.” Or “Damn baby! Did you see that shot I just made!? Here let me rewind it so you can see it.” All in all though, PCTI seems pretty harmless and like other wives/girlfriends have said, you all could definitely be doing worse things.

[There it is again. We COULD do worse. The complain about hearing about it then give us this backhanded compliment. Actually, I think this is a call for attention. Guys, they feel left out. Make sure you spend more time talking PCTI with them. Watch more videos. Discuss the roommate draft. Let's get these ladies what they want and let them in on our private club.]

Thanks to AB for the answers. Don't be mad!