Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am  |  46 responses

Richard Jefferson: Runaway Groom

This is just cruel, RJ: “Former New Jersey Net star Richard Jefferson bailed on his stunning fiancée — pulling the plug on his posh Manhattan wedding at the 11th hour without even alerting some of the guests. The cold-footed forward’s decision to ditch onetime Net dancer Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols was so last-minute that some of his oblivious friends had already shown up last Saturday at the swank Mandarin Oriental in Columbus Circle for the $2 million wedding that never happened. Jefferson — who was traded in June to the San Antonio Spurs — dumped Nichols just before the weekend, according to sources.”

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  • Hursty Posted: Jul.15 at 10:05 am
    Oh, thats so awful! I feel horrible for both of them. That would have been absolutely devastating for both parties.

  • Eboy Posted: Jul.15 at 10:05 am
    I mean………there’s just soooooooooooooooo much to disect with this story, this is just silly. Howard Stern spent 10 minutes talking about this story this morning and the one thing he never got around to in his report was that Richard is not fond of w…………….well forget it. What he did talk about is that he lent his buddies his American Express black card and they ran up a million dollars in charges over the almost-wedding weekend.

  • WhaHuh Posted: Jul.15 at 10:08 am
    wow

  • Hursty Posted: Jul.15 at 10:15 am
    Now, going purely on physical attraction, I think Kesha… well, I think she looks a bit… suspect as a $ digger. Sorry, but that is just my opinion from the linked picture. The story also says something like, she wasn’t surprised that the wedding was called off. So… *sigh*

  • riggs Posted: Jul.15 at 10:16 am
    stunning? ehhh =\

  • riggs Posted: Jul.15 at 10:17 am
    she has a good personality.

  • nicko Posted: Jul.15 at 10:17 am
    COLD FEET JEFFERSON

  • Jukai Posted: Jul.15 at 10:24 am
    DON’T WORRY HONEY COME TO ME DADDY’LL TREAT YOU THE WAY RICHARD JEFFERSON NEVER COULD!

  • Jukai Posted: Jul.15 at 10:25 am
    and by that I mean have sex with her, cause she’s female

  • niQ Posted: Jul.15 at 10:39 am
    arms… but i guess there’s a reason for everything and things probably just didn’t work out the way they wanted to.

  • vic21 Posted: Jul.15 at 10:41 am
    So is this gonna affect the spurs in any way?

  • Gerard Himself Posted: Jul.15 at 10:48 am
    Kesha Ni’Cole? (what’s wrong with just “Nicole” by the way?) Is that the girl Charles Barkley always talked about on ‘Inside’, but EJ and Kenny always cut him off saying “don’t even go there” etc?

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  • Allenp Posted: Jul.15 at 10:59 am
    If she wasn’t surprised by getting dumped at the last minute, which is what the Post article said, then she probably deserved to get dumped.
    Just saying.

  • Allenp Posted: Jul.15 at 11:00 am
    Eboy
    I see you have heard the rumors about Richard Jefferson, his muppet voice and which team he really plays for…

  • Eboy Posted: Jul.15 at 11:09 am
    That’s old news, Allen. Like real old news.

  • niQ Posted: Jul.15 at 11:45 am
    Eboy you are old news you never contribute anything to these posts….you’re such a noob when it comes to basketball

  • Jukai Posted: Jul.15 at 11:57 am
    Oh good one niQ, you got him there, keep up your crusade buddy, you’re sure making this website a better place!@!!!!!

  • Kadavour Posted: Jul.15 at 12:06 pm
    probably prenup related. those things can be funny in NY state law

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  • Darksaber Posted: Jul.15 at 1:31 pm
    Doesn’t Richard swing for fence with the Amaechi crowd? There was a rumour a few seasons back that got stamped out…QUICK!

  • Cheryl Posted: Jul.15 at 1:47 pm
    The closet is crowded.

  • Eboy Posted: Jul.15 at 1:54 pm
    ^ Wow! ^^ Double Wow!!!

  • niQ Posted: Jul.15 at 2:20 pm
    eboy shes talking about you

  • Zee! Posted: Jul.15 at 2:39 pm
    At least he’ll fit in on that Spurs team. He’ll take Bowen’s “spot”.

  • chingy Posted: Jul.15 at 4:09 pm
    Dark, I remember seeing that somewhere too

  • Josh D Posted: Jul.15 at 4:32 pm
    I feel sorry for both of them

  • Fernando S Posted: Jul.15 at 5:48 pm
    what a pimp… probably with a spur dancer as we speak… or with tim duncan

  • MoNiQuE Posted: Jul.15 at 6:05 pm
    that is a messsss y w8 til the last minute

  • MoNiQuE Posted: Jul.15 at 6:06 pm
    his boyfriend must have blackmailed him lol

  • Exile Posted: Jul.15 at 6:24 pm
    loser

  • Lz - Cphfinest3 Posted: Jul.15 at 6:44 pm
    And this from a guy who looks like a lizard..

  • ramonf Posted: Jul.15 at 8:44 pm
    RJ is ugly! Your still lucky Kesha. Maybe RJ is GAY!

  • ramonf Posted: Jul.15 at 8:46 pm
    RJ is ugly, your still lucky Kesha.

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  • Mr.2012 Posted: Jul.16 at 12:30 am
    Have ya’ll heard of supposed allegations by Bucks players that RJ would stare at their private parts. Such a problem they had to trade him.

  • JoeMaMa Posted: Jul.16 at 12:59 am
    The big question here is, what kind of friends spend a million of your money in one night?!?!!
    I don’t care if it’s for a wedding/bar mitzvah/briss/Halloween party. That’s just crazy.

  • Darksaber Posted: Jul.16 at 1:16 am
    true that. What kind of night(s) did those guys have with that black card? Were there like 300 of them? Did they sleep, eat and drink in the Gold’s club? Pull a vincent chase and buy aston martin’s? THESE are the facts we need to know in this story.

  • Mr.2012 Posted: Jul.16 at 1:30 am
    I’d hit it.

  • Dacre Posted: Jul.16 at 2:27 am
    Still….as big as this is I think Diana Taurini and Antoine Walker have a whole lot more to handle… You gunna shimmy all night long in that orange jumpsuit sweet looking fella.

  • dag guliano Posted: Jul.16 at 6:10 am
    I can think of 3 reasons:
    1- they both want to wed each other; She offers to do the planning and preparations..he agrees..says ‘thats cool!’ I don’t have to worry.. a day before the wedding, she hands him the bill and says I didnt say I’ll pay for it.. he says “whaa? 2 million dallaahs??” Go to hell you b#*&^*%!! 2: She checks in days before the big day, he shows up at the hotel days early to surprise her and catches her with the best man..(J Kidd?) 3; She confessed she had a sex-change operation.

  • Anton Posted: Jul.16 at 8:02 am
    Jukai is my Robin

  • Izzo Posted: Jul.16 at 8:22 am
    This is definitely our business….

  • a mom Posted: Jul.16 at 10:30 am
    This was actually a good thing. There are way too many star athletes getting married for the wrong reasons. They find these beautiful women, and keep them because they feel they have to have something pretty on their arms. 10 or twenty years later, will they get along? Was it all for show? The truth comes out later when these same stars enter into expensive divorces, years later when her look have faded and no one cares anymore how famous he is. Marriage is a serious union, and RJ obviously knew something that the public will never know about his relationship with Nichols. He knew it would not last. Yes, he should have said something earlier, but at least he finally said it. He saved himself from future trouble. If you have any doubts prior to getting married, that is the Holy Spirit trying to instruct you. Some people call it, “Following your heart.” He did just that. This was good for the both of them. It was his money wasted anyway, not hers. She should not be upset.

  • Allenp Posted: Jul.16 at 11:41 am
    Good point Izzo.

  • Felix Posted: Jul.16 at 5:00 pm
    He easily made the right call. Pro athlete, new city… Richard Jefferson is going to have to hire some f’n navy seals to fight off all the women that are coming after him. There gonna catapult themselves at this fool. Gold diggin in texas is considered traditional. RJ’s still in his prime, maybe he has a shot at Wilt’s record (the women scoring title, not the nba scoring title)… I think he thought about all the future lays he was passin on and just manned up and made the right call. My new hero

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