Shaunie O'Neal Not Feeling "Basketball Wives LA" Cast

In a recent interview with Ebony Magazine, Shaunie O’Neal revealed how she’s not too excited about the upcoming season of VH1′s Basketball Wives. The former basketball wife also shared the reality of being the one behind the popular reality show and how people give her a hard time for portraying Black women in a not so positive light:

Here is a snippet of the interview



“I get a lot of flack. People say to me: ‘You’re saying the betrayal of Black women is bad on TV, but your show is one of the number one reasons why it is.’ Guess what? I agree! But you look at those credits — it’s more than me executive producing it. I brought this vision to a table full of people, a table full of executives, and since then it has taken on its own new thing.”




She also went on to say that she is not totally happy with the new season of “Basketball Wives LA” and even called some of the cast members a bit “trashy”.



“Honestly, they’ve distorted it a little bit,” Shaunie stated, “I really came in with the concept of having a group of women that come together and are associated by the game of basketball, whether it be their husbands, fiancés — there’s some long-term relationship with a man in basketball and the game of basketball — and that’s how we formed this sisterhood and friendship. The L.A. cast — there are some wives and fiancés, which I’m fine with. But there’s a little bit of trash kind of sprinkled into that cast that I’m totally against. I was really very hands off with that cast.”



“Yeah, you know they have Jackie Christie, I love her — they have a long lasting marriage and it works. There’s also Malaysia Pargo, you’ve got Imani who was the former fiancée of Stephen Jackson — they went to the altar, you get that connection. These ladies have been around forever in the game of basketball. But then you’ve got people that just might’ve slept with somebody. I’m not OK with that. It’s just drama and … that’s not my vision. I don’t think that all money is good money. I don’t need it that bad. So we are having some issues. I’ve kind of just had to take a backseat and shut up and just let it go, let it ride. It’s David and Goliath right now.”