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November 1, 2011
Brooklyn Love & Basketball
The Wall Street Journal
by Jason Gay
Their love couldn't survive the lockout.
On Monday, the news arrived that the future First Lady of Brooklyn, Kim Kardashian, had filed for divorce from Kris Humphries, a broad-shouldered basketball free-agent-to-be, most recently of the basketball Nets.
The melancholy word came not from the NBA, but the TMZ.
In total, the Kardashian-Humphries union spanned 72 days. That's 51 days fewer than the NBA's work stoppage, which began on July 1.
...Every New York area sports fan should root for these two crazy lovebirds to make another try.
Who wasn't looking forward Kim and Kris in Brooklyn? There is no guarantee Humphries will re-sign with the Nets when (and if) the lockout ends, and the team does have to play one more zombie season in Jersey.
But Kim & Kris in Brooklyn was the weird home-spun fantasy, the magazine cover waiting to happen. The world's most overexposed couple in the world's most overexposed place. Borough president Marty Markowitz would drive them both to work in the morning.
NoLandGrab: Actually, their split saves us from having Markowitz make more inappropriate comments, a la his tasteless Beyoncé shtick at the arena groundbreaking.
Posted by eric at November 1, 2011 11:28 AM