Ron Artest Will Wear No. 37 Because of “Thriller”
The latest dispatch from Planet Ron-Ron rivals yesterday’s revelation of “I Cry For Mike.”
After signing a three-year, $18 million deal, he revealed that he’s changing his number from 96 to 37, because that’s the number of weeks that MJ’s “Thriller” topped the charts at No. 1.
I couldn’t love this any more than I do.
That’s got to be one of the best reasons to change your jersey number. None of that Dennis Rodman #73 crap, just because it’s different and no one in their right mind would chose that number. I think the League penalizes players for changing their number between seasons if they don’t change teams. David Stern should waive that rule for Ron Artest. He’s going to be in L.A. for three years, so he should be able to honor a different part of Michael’s legacy every year. In 2010, he can rock “58″ for the year that Jackson was born. And then in 2011, he can just get a white glove embroidered on the back of his jersey instead of a number.
Source: Inside SoCal
July 8th, 2009 at 10:58 am
ToAn says:
damn, they really have a lot of free time…all i can do is check bball websites while i’m alone in my office. but if i just signed a contract for 36 Mio., then i also would think all day what my new favourite number is, what video i put on youtube…anyway, if Ron-Ron makes it to the beginn of the season then it’s all good in LALA-Land. But it’s def. not the last time we heard from him this summer
July 8th, 2009 at 10:59 am
ToAn says:
sorry, contract for 18 Mio.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Derrty says:
Wow. That’s just amazing. Artest is officially in my top 5 favorite players now.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:03 am
King says:
InOn defense of rodman he wore 73 bucause he couldn’t get 10 and 7+3 is 10 same reason with 91
Now after Lebron got banged and he had the tapes taken away did threaten Crawford to give him lane or else he was going to throw him out the camp?
July 8th, 2009 at 11:06 am
rd$ says:
I can’t wait till Bron gets sauced on during a real NBA game cause they won’t be able to hide those videos
July 8th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Iannyb says:
Big ups Ronron now come make it happen on the court.Don’t be the shot jacker you were in houston and please no distraction.as a laker faithful it really pained me to see Ariza walk.i was very high on him from day one.he was a player we could’ve had for many a years,Ron not so much.hopefully all will be well.look out for a big season from my boy AB
July 8th, 2009 at 11:21 am
dk says:
Ron its 11:30, time for your glass of milk and the blue pill.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:25 am
ToAn says:
but please ron, just don’t take the red pill…’cause then all hell will break lose. the right pills at the right time and everything is going to be fine
July 8th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Jeff says:
lmao ron artest doesnt stop making me laugh
July 8th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Rare Air says:
Ron Ron may very well be just as cracked out as the Rod-man. This just keeps getting better and better. Ron Ron in LA, couldnt ask for anything else.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:55 am
The Real Tyrone says:
Ain’t no doubt that Ron Artest don’t got no brains y’all. Cat’s just a punkass, dumbass, wannabe-thug. He ain’t welcome in no ghetto - nobody want no dumbass cats like Ron Artest.
True thugs never lie.
Tyrone
July 8th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Simon says:
I can’t wait for TMZ to bump into him all the time in LA. I have a feeling we are going to get some amazing quotes over the next 3 years…
July 8th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Hugo says:
LOL @ 1 …
July 8th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
wiz says:
Tyrone you must me like 12 or something, I aint defending ron ron’s hood cause I could careless but ron is pretty popular with some pretty hood folk for example leaving his games with max b “oowwwww” who is doing a murder bid right now so come on mayne im sure ron has earned his stripes, baby gangsta
“Real thugs dont talk about” you should soak that in cause im tired of your im so hood post…lol
July 8th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
"Tha Boddy" Bad Like Michael says:
I should be everyone’s favorite poster cause I reppin Michael Jackson since that unfortunate day…
R.I.P Michael Jackson AH!!!!
July 8th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Ant says:
but ya put Smooth criminal artwork up there with him?? lol
July 8th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
SWAT says:
nice to see ya again tyrone…making your semi-retarded comments. fam, ron is from QB. You know…NAS, MOBB DEEP. i remember seeing him doing a charity event here in htown and dude had on basketball shorts, a gray rockets long sleeve tee, and some wheat timbos. lol…whats not to love about ron. dude is so gully that he doesnt even have to do anything anymore and cats are scared of wht he might do…
July 8th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
shake&bake says:
Doesn’t seem like a good idea to honor someone who slept with little boys.
July 8th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
fallinup says:
Did anyone else bust out laughing looking at the title picture? Haha… that would have been a collab to remember.
July 8th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Ian says:
tyrone how about posting all that again but this time in english.
July 8th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
dk says:
@ Swat, thanks bro, said well. I was gonna keep my mouth shut because I didnt wanna get shot by a keyboard this week. What a fucking tool, please, crawl back under a crack rock!
July 8th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
dk says:
@18 Huh, yeah that shit dont count! Giving little ones rum and coke, at least 2 can describe distinguishing features on his genitals and besides all the other witns/evidence, it was always little boys
July 8th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
dk says:
Way to violate the real ” Mecca ” of basketball and waste 4 mil in LA taxpayer money on an alleged child molester, who mind you, if he was anyone else would have been convicted.
July 8th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
JayTea says:
Rodman picked 73 because it was his age at the time backwards. Damn I know a lot of useless shit.
White glove dribbles up court, and dribbles, and dribbles, and dribbles, clocks running down, white glove forces up a 3 OWWWWWWWW. Brick.
Any money against Ron Ron pulling out a moonwalk next season?
July 8th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
dk says:
So lets see last week, we lost an iconic pop star, and a black super star quarterback, the mexican community better watch out!
July 8th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
"Big Hook" Nunez says:
dk hope you don’t jinx my homies Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Martin.
Lakers fans are lucky MJ didn’t die in the middle of the season or Artest would be asking for bereavement leave, kinda like the time he asked for time off to promote his rap album.
Larry Bird deserves an NAACP award for promoting more diversity in the NBA and acquiring more minorities, I mean “good character players” to paraphrase Larry.
July 8th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
MACCAPONE says:
WELCOME TO THE LAKERS RON ARTEST I WAS BORN AND RAISE IN L.A. SO I RIDE WITH LAKERS ALL DAY KOBE WILL FORGIVE YOU FOR THE PAST SHIIT
July 8th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
dk says:
Big Hook, just to let you know Ricky ame out the closet a little while back, shake your bon,bon…
July 8th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Jay-Are says:
idc what number u wear ron jus get kobe that 5 ring
July 8th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
sh!tfaced says:
hey hey. its Jay-Are. how’s the shirt, man? nice to see you actually post. lol.
man, just read something freaky about jacko and the number seven. at least he got the number 7 part right. since odom already wears the number.
…his will on 7/7/02 and his memorial was held on 7/7/09, exactly seven years to the day after the signing of his will.
…was the seventh child of nine.
…Black & White, and Billie Jean, were both at number one for seven weeks.
…Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous each had 7 top 40 hits on them.
…born on 1958, 19+58=77
…died on the 25th, 2+5=7
…both michael and jackson have 7 letters each.
…his new album was supposed to have the title 7EVEN.
…and maybe he also likes ‘em 7 yrs old.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
chiaki says:
rodman wear 73 because he got 7 rebounding titles and 3 rings.. and 7+3=10.. that’s the real reason for that..
July 9th, 2009 at 4:22 am
Sweet English says:
Okay, 3 points. Firstly, Jay-Ayre, every time you fakepost now, your gonna get hate cos you were never here before.
secondly, shitfaced, that last line had me dying. Cold.
thirdly,
WILL EVERYONE JUST SHUT THE F**K UP ABOUT MICHEAL JACKSON??
July 11th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
smoove chips says:
Oh Jay
u in trouble….
post no 2 huh ??!!
keep em coming you need volume.
lotsa volume…
u can’t miss a post from here on out dawg lol