Why Kim Kardashian Fiasco Has Made Kris Humphries the Laughingstock of NBA

Recently, Forbes.com came out with its top-10 list of the most disliked players in the NBA.

All the names you suspected would be there. The entire big three of the Miami Heat, Kobe Bryant and Tony Parker all found well-earned spots on the list, but it certainly came as the biggest surprise to see who No. 1 was. It wasn't the guy who abandoned an entire city on national television, but rather the talk of the tabloids for being in a highly publicized divorce.

Disliked by 50 percent of the voters in the survey, Kris Humphries has usurped LeBron James as the NBA's most disliked player. That breakout season of his last year when he posted up 10 points and 10 boards per went all for naught last season, as the power forward didn't even receive too much attention from outside of New Jersey during his free agency period. He signed a deal worth somewhere between $7-8 million, but will only last until the end of the 2011-12 season.

Humphries didn't embarrass a major city on an hour-long special on ESPN. He didn't get accused of rape a few years back and is still trying to repair his image. He didn't even cheat on his movie star wife with the wife of a former teammate. No, Humphries is guilty of being naive and sharing the entire saga of his marriage with Kim Kardashian with the world.

It didn't stop there, however. We didn't have a problem with Humphries getting married to Kim, just like how we don't have too much of a problem with Lamar Odom getting married to Khloe Kardashian and even getting an entire show because of it, although the former Laker star did finish 10th with 21 percent of the vote.

No, the main problem we have with Humphries is how his marriage went about. On the reality show "Keeping up with the Kardashians", the lives and tribulations of the Kardashian family are brought out for all to see, and that includes viewing their various relationships. While Odom and Khloe have seemed to settle down, Humphries and Kim were a completely different story.

From the moment they eloped, the two were constantly in arguments. Kim's high-maintenance lifestyle and Kris' inability to accept it and the fame that surrounded it provided television that was even more difficult to watch than before. The two seemed oddly distant from the start, even before the marriage took place.

We don't care that Humphries is actually insane enough to put a ring on it. What we're peeved about is that the marriage lasted a grand total of 72 days. It took a little more than three months before the two called it quits, and they are now featured on every magazine in the supermarket check-out line. The worst kind of publicity is ending up in those tabloids and Humphries has managed to find himself on the cover of every one of them.

What gets the NBA public a little more riled is the fact that the wedding that led up to this trainwreck of a marriage was reported to bring in $17 million for Kardashian and Humphries. They received $15 million just by the channel E!, so that they may broadcast their wedding for all to see. Another $2.5 million came from People Magazine to take photographs of the wedding and then post for the general public.

They even got  another $300,000 from People just so they can be the first ones to say that they were getting married. Can you tell why we're a little annoyed by this Humphries character? He made $17 million for his entire seven-year career and then received just as much in one day because he got married to someone on television. Two years ago we had no idea who he was, and now he's the most disliked player in the NBA.

Given that a few of those dislikes are probably from fans that are jealous that they didn't have Kardashian for 72 days (she's still hot, even though she believes the world revolves around her), the majority of the votes stem from the populace that is annoyed by the fact that an NBA player is all over Star and People.

The New York Knicks' strong, loyal fan base made sure to let Humphries know of just exactly how they felt. From the moment that his name was called to enter the game and any other time he touched the ball, the Knicks faithful made sure to litter jeers all over the 26-year-old. Unlike other disliked players like James or Bryant, Humphries couldn't dispel of the cheers with a huge game because he doesn't possess that capability.

The way the Knicks crowd reacts to certain players is a solid medium for us to rely on. They are usually smart enough to know which players to jeer, and we haven't seen a player receive consistent booing over the course of the game for that long. Not even LeBron received that type of reception when he went to New York for the first time in a Miami Heat uniform.

Mostly we're just peeved that we know who Humphries is, when there should be no reason to know him as anything more than a post presence on the New Jersey Nets. To have this guys face constantly looking back at us, either from a television or a magazine, is what led to him becoming the NBA's most disliked player, as well as the laughingstock of the NBA.

He's a laughingstock because this situation is hilarious in some ways, but it's mostly pitiful and embarrassing for everyone. I'm not one to preach, but a marriage for 72 days isn't a marriage. It's an insult to what an elopement is, and we're so wary of the two's relationship that we're not even sure if the marriage was set up or not since it did bring in $17 million for both parties.

Kardashian is now lambasting Humphries' name across the celebrity world, with headlines speaking of the reality star calling Kris a "mistake"; we can see why no organization in the NBA wanted to even offer this guy a deal. What type of team would want its name associated with a player that's constantly being related to a ridiculous reality show that features a family who got rich off of their departed lawyer father/husband, and then got famous because of a certain videotape involving Kim.

Think about it. Do you think the Phoenix Suns would want to see a headline in People that starts, "Phoenix Suns forward Kris Humphries..."? Of course not. Each NBA team is its own business and they don't want any part of this embarrassing saga that is receiving more press than it ever should have.

In fact, I'm getting ready to jeer Kris Humphries myself. I could be talking about Kobe's torn ligament, but instead I'm talking about an average role player who got rich and infamous off of a farce off of a wedding.

It's going to take awhile for Humphries to shed this label. He's not LeBron or Kobe, who could let their game do the talking. Kris just averaged double-digit points for the first time in seven years last season, so don't expect him to drop 50 points out of spite. The only way Humphries avoids any more drama is if he continues to play his usual game and stay out of the news.

Don't take the bait left by these sensationalist mediums. All they're doing is looking for a story and Humphries just happens to be the flavor of the month. He's never going to shed the image that he's been left with, but he can begin shying away from it. Go out, post up 10 points and 10 boards per game, and don't answer any questions about your ex-wife.

Until then, Humphries is going to be the laughingstock of the NBA, which is a moniker that he completely deserves. It seems harsh for the 26-year-old, but he should have known what he was getting himself into the moment he started dating the Kardashian.

He should have been ready to accept the trying life of reality television and constantly being in the news, but he rejected it and it's now led to him suffering from an even more harsh life of being lambasted on national television once a week, by someone that got famous for a videotape.

At least the season is only 66 games long. That's only 33 road games in the future, along with the high possibility that his Nets team doesn't even make it to the postseason.