There are four pairs of siblings playing in the NBA. The Collinses, The Gasols, The Grahams, and of course, the Lopez sisters. They could soon be joined by a fourth: Jason Smith and Nene. A-whuh?!
Many parents push their kids into becoming professional athletes. The Prothe family of Fort Collins, Colo., apparently pushes their girls into dating them. And with Lauren Prothe set to wed Nene this weekend, and Ashley Prothe living with her boyfriend Smith, they’re not too far off from being one big, happy, tall family.
Nene and Lauren Prothe seem like the perfect match. Both are ridiculously tall (she played volleyball in high school with Nene’s agent’s wife). Both are bilingual (their dogs at home respond to Portuguese commands). The only problem is, what do you change your name to when you marry a man with only one name?
“I have no idea?” Smith said with a smile. “I don’t know what they’re going to do about that.”
Smith, the 76ers sophomore forward, met Ashley Prothe in the freshmen dorms at Colorado State.
“They lived in the same hallway,” [mother] Carla Prothe said. “She had the Xbox. So they became fast friends.”
They’ve been dating for five years (I guess we’re ignoring that alleged makeout session with a porn star), but no plans yet to go the marriage route. Interestingly, Nene didn’t choose Valentine’s Day to get married because it’s romantic; he chose it because it’s in the middle of his only three-day break of the season.
It’s somewhat refreshing to see a couple of WAGs without trashy bikini pics floating around the internet. Don’t worry, though. I’m sure we’ll have someone with gigantic cans up within a couple hours.






12:20 pm on February 12th, 2009
Sisters are doing it for themselves.
12:28 pm on February 12th, 2009
Aim high, Prothe sisters!
12:39 pm on February 12th, 2009
Are Brooks and Robin Lopez brothers in the NBA?
1:14 pm on February 12th, 2009
Brooke and Robin are both in the league… twin boys who mom must've thought were gonna be girls with names like theirs.
2:06 pm on February 12th, 2009
It’s somewhat refreshing to see a couple of WAGs without trashy bikini pics floating around the internet.
No it isn't.
6:51 pm on February 12th, 2009
It’s somewhat refreshing to see a couple of WAGs without trashy bikini pics floating around the internet.
All that means is that you haven't done your job as a journalist!!!! Now back to the bikinis.