TV Cameos We'd Love to See NBA Stars Do While Lockout Drags on

Last month, in an effort to stave off boredom and perhaps test out an alternate career path for after they retire from basketball, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh appeared on an episode of Law and Order: SVU.

The episode depicts a coach, who is being inducted into some high school basketball hall of fame by Anthony and Bosh (who are his former students), being accused of sexually abusing another former student.

While the show has fallen off in recent years as the stories repeat themselves and the characters start to go sour, this one was a very different and unique story to come out, especially since the recent scandal with Penn State and Jerry Sandusky.

The biggest thing that came of this, however, is that it got me thinking about basketball players and television. Who should test out their acting chops and give acting a bit of a shot?

Here's a few ideas I had with some shows around your dial that some basketball stars would be interesting to see on television.

Tosh.0: JaVale McGee and Nick Young

JaVale McGee and Nick Young are hanging out a lot trying to pass the time while the NBA lockout drags on, and this is the product of their free time together.

Apparently, the two are putting together a show that they're putting on Youtube that just features them running around doing things.

Last week, they uploaded this little gem, trying an Internet challenge prominently featured on Tosh.0 of the two of them trying to eat a spoonful of cinnamon. Perhaps they could send it in to the Tosh.0 people and have them show it.

Boardwalk Empire: Chris Paul

There are a lot of people across the NBA that dress in fancy suits and just look snazzy altogether, but nobody rocks a three-piece suit quite like Chris Paul.

Paul and his suit that looks like it came out of the 1920s, and then got it altered to have some snazzy colors for today's world is a pocket watch and a bowler hat from being able to appear alongside Nucky Thompson for an episode of Boardwalk Empire. 

The Office: Brian Scalabrine

Across the entierty of the NBA, there's not a single player whose awkwardness and seemingly terrible inability to look like he belongs sticks out more than Brian Scalabrine.

His ability to be awkward and strange would fit right in with The Office, although it would be a bit more entertaining if Michael Scott were still there so they could be awkward at each other.

How I Met Your Mother: Delonte West

Come on, guys; this joke is just too good to pass up.

I haven't really watched the show, but to have Delonte West show up alongside Neil Patrick Harris in an obvious Gloria James joke would pull me over for at least one show.

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Blake Griffin

For some reason, I just feel like Blake Griffin would work very well with Larry David and Jeff Garlin.

His hilarious style of deadpan comedy that is all over the internet, and his seemingly flawless ability to go with jokes in stride (as a basketball player at least) never fails to leave me laughing.

It seems like David would be able to get in a few scenes with Griffin and just leave me rolling on the floor laughing.

The Biggest Loser: Big Baby Davis

This isn't as much a suggestion for Glen Davis to get on television, as it is for the big guy to keep working out over the course of the lockout.

If anyone is going to be the winner of this year's Shawn Kemp Award (and that's not an award given to the man with the most illegitimate children...yet), it's going to be Big Baby.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Ron Artest

It takes a special type of sociopath to make me think that they would work out well on an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but if there's anyone in the NBA that could do it, it's Ron Artest.

All Artest needs to do for this role is find his inner crazy again, and not his "thanking his therapist" crazy; I'm talking rushing into the stands crazy.

I could totally see the gang getting into some shenanigans with Ron Artest, where he concludes near the end of the episode that they are crazier than he is.

Dexter: Jimmer Fredette

For some reason, and I have no idea why, Jimmer Fredette strikes me as a guy who could totally be a serial killer. Maybe it's his seemingly too-perfect lifestyle that makes me want to look for a flaw, or just the way he looks, but it wouldn't be all that surprising.

To me, to see Michael C. Hall chase down and systematically kill Fredette, who would be playing a serial killer, would be all too convenient, as this season has been focused on biblical killings.

The Walking Dead: Tim Duncan

Let's play a word association game really quickly. If I say the words "zombie" and "basketball" together, who is the first person you think of? If your answer isn't Tim Duncan, then I would assume you're in the minority there.

I can only imagine Duncan appearing as a walker on The Walking Dead. He would barely need any instruction; just put some blood on his face and send him out there to act like TIm Duncan.

Breaking Bad: Chris Andersen

If there's an NBA player that could blend in with Jesse Pinkman's crew, it's Chris Andersen, the guy that got banned from the NBA for nearly two years for testing positive for "drugs of abuse."

Andersen could totally pass for a guy hanging out on the streets slinging Heisenberg's blue meth for an episode before he gets arrested and ends up giving up some information to the DEA.

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