The Top 5 NBA Storylines That Don't Get Talked About Enough

The NBA All-Star break is in full swing and there really is not too much to talk about other than the same old storylines that everyone has been talking about for months. Who is going to win the NBA Finals? Is Giannis going to win MVP back-to-back years? Will Ben Simmons ever shoot another 3-pointer? Just how fat can Nikola Jokic be? Just your typical Sportscenter, PTI, Around the Horn headlines that are both stale and boring. Because of this, I decided to take a deeper dive into some of the funniest NBA storylines of all time that need to be talked about way more often.

5. J.R. Smith is Suspended One Game by the Cleveland Cavaliers After Throwing a Bowl of Hot Soup on Assistant Coach Damon Jones

Okay, so although this was a story in the 2017-18 NBA season, people are not talking about it as much as they should. J.R. Smith got so mad at his coach that he threw a BOWL OF SOUP on him! What a preposterous method to get your point across. The fact that there isn't any video evidence is absolutely heartbreaking. Do you want to talk about Hall of Fame viral videos? J.R. Smith dumping a piping hot bowl of Campbell's chicken noodle soup would have been a first-ballot entrance.

Sadly, we can only imagine what happened on that late winter night in Cleveland. Imagine what Damon Jones did after he wiped away chicken broth from his eyes. Did he storm into Ty Lue's office soaked head to toe in soup? Did he call the 9-1-1 on J.R.? Did he throw a bowl of soup back at J.R. in return? Sadly, all we know about the incident is this clip of Jones on the Jalen and Jacoby Show, where the only new aspect of the story we found out was that Smith and Jones did not speak to each other for 3 months after the incident.

4. Rajon Rondo Used to Park in Rick Carlisle's Parking Spot When he Played for the Mavericks

There is not a single person on Earth that cares so little about what people think of him more than Rajon Rondo. Rondo is one of the funniest people in the entire NBA. He simply does not try until playoff games, talks wreckless to anyone and everyone, and apparently steals his head coach's parking spot.

Carlisle and Rondo pretty much despised each other during Rondo's short stint in Dallas. Every day you would see a new story about the two clashing heads on the sidelines or just getting into straight-up yelling matches in the locker room. Knowing what we know about the two makes this entire story even funnier. Just imagine Rondo pulling into the parking lot, seeing an open front row spot, and parking there despite it being his coach's reserved parking space.

That's the type of mental warfare that really makes you stay up at night. You spend the rest of the day thinking about how your starting point guard pulls off an all-time alpha move. He no longer saw Rajon Rondo as one of the most talented basketball players in the world. Instead, Rondo will forever be "that guy who used to steal my parking spot" in Rick Carlisle's eyes.

3. Ron Artest/Metta World Peace Sneaks into the Lakers Locker Room After the Lakers Lost Game 6 of the NBA Finals by 39 Points and Tells Kobe Bryant that he Wants to Help Kobe Win Another Championship

Ron Artest was a member of the Houston Rockets in 2008. The Lakers and the Rockets didn't even play each other in the playoffs during 2008. Game 6 of the Finals was played in Boston. Point being, Ron Artest had absolutely no business being at this game, let alone in the Lakers locker room after their season ended.

According to Kobe, he was taking a post-game shower still fuming after losing the NBA Finals. He was the last guy in the locker room and was sitting in silence. He later heard someone walk in the locker room, which he assumed was another teammate or a staff member. Nope, here comes Ron Artest stumbling in walking up to Kobe Bryant in the showers. Wild. A totally random NBA player sneaks into the back and walks right up to a naked Kobe Bryant telling him that he could help him win an NBA Championship.

"I want to come help you," Artest allegedly told Kobe. "If I can, I'm going to find a way to LA and give you the help you need to win a title."

To be fair, Artest did exactly what he promised. That summer, he signed a contract with the Lakers who later became that year's NBA champion. Say what you want about the guy who elbowed James Harden's head off his skull, was a key piece in the "Mallace in the Palace," and willingly changed his name to Metta World Peace. You can't say he is not a man of his word though. Facts are facts.

2. Gilbert Arenas BROUGHT 4 GUNS INTO THE LOCKEROOM AND TOLD HIS TEAMMATE TO CHOSE WHICH ONE HE WANTS TO GET SHOT WITH AFTER AN AIRPLANE CARDS GAME!

People kind of swept this whole story under the rug when it comes to Gilbert Arenas' NBA career. Why? I have absolutely no clue. People forget (literally), that Arenas was so mad over a cards game with Javaris Crittenton on a plane ride home that he brought 4 different guns into the locker room the next morning and told Crittenton to choose which one he wanted to be shot with.

What did Javaris do in response? You would expect him to be terrified that he could be murdered in front of his entire team. Maybe apologize to Arenas (you know, the guy with 4 guns that wanted to shoot him). Nope, instead, Javaris turned around like a cowboy in an old western movie and aimed HIS OWN GUN THAT HE ALSO BROUGHT TO THE LOCKER ROOM at Arenas.

The only reason that neither Arenas or Crittenton did not shoot each other was that Caron Butler, the longtime NBA veteran who has one of the most troubled pasts in the league, talked them out of it. You know if the guy who grew up in the streets surrounded by gang life has to be the voice of reason, then things escalated out of control fast.

Perhaps the best part of this story is that throughout the rest of his career, whenever Gilbert Arenas' name was announced, he would throw up the old finger guns and pretend to shoot them out towards the crowd. I mean are you kidding me. This whole story is barely talked about anymore, and there are even some fans today who have no idea just how good Gilbert Arenas was at basketball. Agent Zero is an absolute legend all while being one of the dumbest humans on the planet.

1. The New York Knicks Claim They Lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder because their Hotel was Haunted

I wish I was kidding, but this is sadly a true story. The Knicks simply cannot get out of their own way. They will always find ways to make themselves look like absolute morons. Specifically, Eddie Curry who was 100% certain that the Knicks' hotel was haunted. He apparently only slept for a total of 2 hours in 2 nights due to the fact that he was staying on the 10th floor.

What is so special about this 10th floor? Well, the story goes that in the 1930s a woman was staying in the Skirvin Hilton Hotel with her newborn child. She later jumped out of the window of the 10th floor with her child in hand and they allegedly haunt the hotel today. Curry was convinced that the story was true and the team blamed their loss in OKC on the ghosts.

We literally just made fun of Sam Darnold for "seeing ghosts," and we are just going to let this one slide? There has to be something about New York teams seeing ghosts because this is the second case compared to the whopping zero other instances with other teams making such claims. Class Knicks basketball honestly. The only time they are in the news is so people can constantly make fun of them.