Basketball Wives L.A. – Episode 9 – My, How The Tables Have Turned

Who to trust? Who to believe? Once again, these women are making it very hard to know what the real truth is.

Laura and Jackie are stirring up trouble, because it looks like one of them is telling the truth, and one of them isn’t. The problem is, which is which?

Let’s go back to Malaysia‘s jewelry party where, instead of focusing on jewelry, we were focusing on Jackie telling everyone that Laura was talking about her and Imani negatively. Malaysia was like “Please don’t do this here,” but they do. They get into it, and decide that Malaysia’s party is the perfect place to tell Gloria they’re mad at Laura. I love how every time anyone is mad at someone on this show, they all have to go to a charity function or some other similarly-themed event where rather than duke it out, they have to act civil. “If only we weren’t busy fighting cancer right now, we’d totally be fighting each other!”

Such is the case with Gloria and Matt’s Athletes Vs. Cancer charity golf tournament. Everyone (i.e. me, Imani) is still weirded out that Jackie and Draya are BFFs all of a sudden, and they walk the red carpet together at the pre-golf-event (there are so many events at this event, I can’t keep them straight) and, oops, a photographer thinks they’re mother and daughter, which Jackie takes as a slam.

Wait, doesn’t Jackie actually have a 22-year-old daughter, though? Draya’s only three years older than that…Anyway.)

When they show up and hang with Imani, there is a chill in the air. Imani is still thinking that Laura’s been trash-talking, so when Laura walks in later and gives everyone hugs they are very one-sided.


(Draya is not into all the hugging from Laura, especially when she overhears Laura telling Jackie she’s not a fan of Draya. This annoys Draya for many reasons:1) Jackie asked Laura what she thinks of Draya 2) while Draya was within earshot and 3) Laura was like “I do not think she adorable, no.” This confuses Draya and the rest of us because if you don’t like someone, “You don’t gotta be all huggy, hi hi hi,” Draya says.)

Jackie brings up her beef with Laura, telling her that she was pissed that Laura made fun of her pooch.

However, in front of all the other women, it appears that they work it out and seem cool with each other. I have a feeling that won’t last long. Draya feels the same way, saying of Laura “Don’t trust her as far as you can throw her. And she’s a heavy girl, so you’re not gonna throw her very far.” Seriously with the body-snarking, ladies!

At the post-golf-cocktail cocktail event, after Laura gives everyone more hugs,

no one is feeling her, so after making chit-chat on the outdoor patio, it would appear that Imani, Draya, and Jackie spend the rest of the evening in a corner so they don’t have to see Laura, and they leave sometime after they have an awkward photo op.

And since this is Gloria’s event and they left without saying goodbye, Gloria is pissed.

Gotta love that Draya was like “We didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to Gloria because she was actually, kinda…making a speech,” which is always the best time to leave a party, when one of the hosts is giving their speech. About cancer.

At brunch with Imani and Jackie (because, seriouslyOMG, they are a trio now), Draya points out the irony of their friendship.

“Draya ain’t so bad, is she?!” she asks. “My how the tables have turned,” she says, giving me the perfect headline for this post, but also pointing out the obvious: the girl that everyone loved to hate has proven herself to be the only trustworthy person in the bunch, and the one everyone thought was like a sister to them is calling them “triflin’.” (BTW, I get hungry every time I hear the word triflin’, am I alone there?) “Looking at the totality of the situation and who Laura is revealing herself to be and who Draya is revealing herself to be, they’re kind of switching places in our hearts,” Imani says.

Gloria hangs out at the pool with Imani and Jackie, she calls them out on the rudeness of leaving her party with no goodbye, and then five seconds later she forgives and forgets and they immediately start planning a group trip to Hawaii. Because there is nothing more fun than spending hours on a plane and in a hotel with people you are secretly seething at.

Malaysia and Draya meet to discuss everything that’s been happening. When Draya tells Malaysia that Laura the s— -talking hugger made her rounds at the gold tournament, Malaysia says “I hate a liar and there’s nothing worse than a two-faced chick.”

Look, I heart Malaysia, but this “I hate liars” stuff is hard to swallow (when she’s telling Draya) because not two weeks ago, she was all like “I’m not Draya’s friend, she and I are not BFFs,” and you’ve got to wonder if she’s playing sides too. The two of them discuss the fact that they have no say but are being forced to go to Hawaii with the rest of the group. The Lonely Planet guide cannot save you ladies from what is about to go down on this trip, I will tell you that much.

“It’s gonna be a mess,” Malaysia says, “I don’t want to get kicked out of Hawaii.” Can that happen? I guess we’ll see!