Royce Reed the least favorite "wife"

The show is called Basketball Wives? Isn't it? or should the show be called Ex-Basketball wives, baby momma's and other connected sources.  My understanding from watching the show, is that no one is longer a basketball wife, well maybe Jennifer until the divorce. So I am unsure of why Royce is not able to discuss her life! She didn't marry a ball player but did have his child and was a dancer, that fits into the baby momma's and other connected source? Right? Well here's the story....

Royce Reed is talking back about her potential recasting on "Basketball Wives" due to her disconnect with b-ballers and her inability to speak publicly about baby daddy Dwight Howard and their son.

Reed, the least favorite "wife" -- she has little or nothing in common with her cast mates and didn't know any of them before the show started taping -- has been losing her connection to the show, according to costar and executive producer Shaunie O'Neal. And a 2009 gag order that bars her from speaking about Orlando Magic center Howard or the son they have together further closed the door on any dishy portions of her life.
"If they are indeed searching for a replacement for me, it is what it is. It all seems petty and immature to me," she told TMZ.

So the tenuously named "Basketball Wives," which follows the exploits of women who have once dated, married or had kids with an NBA player, is courting new women to join the cast. Ones who can share the contents of their lives, perhaps.
Looks as if Reed will soon be a free agent. Maybe she's calling things "petty and immature" because the only claim to fame that she can speak of now is the show. Apparently, you need to actually have a life you can talk about to be a reality TV star.

Costars O'Neal and Evelyn Lozada have proved that it's OK if the relationship between a "Wives" star and an NBA player wasn't a slam dunk, as long as she can still share with the group. 
Shaquille O'Neal's ex-wife is now dating actor-model Marlon Yates

, and Lozada is dating football player Chad Ochocinco,

who has appeared on a few episodes of "Basketball Wives," even though we know him more from "Dancing With the Stars" than from the gridiron. Do we see a football-themed spin off in the future?

Now we're curious about Reed's potential replacements. O'Neal stayed mum when we asked her to drop a few hints, so we vote for Eva Longoria to replace the gag-ordered Reed, only because Khloe Kardashian already has her own show on deck with Lakers hubby Lamar Odom. But it's probably safe to say that Longoria's A-list stock would plummet if she landed on the VH1 show.

We could see "The Bachelor's" resident villainies Michelle Money in the running too thanks to her affair with Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer.

Well good luck Royce, we hope you get your own show!