Celebrity Feuds

Former "Basketball Wives" star Laura Govan knows how NBA locker rooms work -- she was with Gilbert Arenas for years -- and tells TMZ Sports D'Angelo Russell may NEVER be able to recover from the Nick Young video scandal.

"There's a lot of shade in the NBA," Govan says, "These n**gas are f*cked up. I know first hand."

Check out the clip ... Govan says there's a STRONG bond between teammates at the NBA level, and if you violate that trust, "it's hard to recover from that."

Sidenote -- Govan says she's back on speaking terms with Arenas ... which is HUUUGE considering they've been at WAR with each other ever since they broke up last year.

Chris Brown called himself a "piece of sh*t" this morning after ranting against R&B singer Kehlani ... essentially saying her suicidal episode is a P.R. stunt concocted for sympathy.

Brown -- who's friends with Kehlani's NBA star ex-boyfriend Kyrie Irving -- went off on Kehlani in the middle of the night saying, "There is no attempting suicide. Stop flexing for the gram. Doing sh*t for sympathy so them comments under your pics don't look so bad."

As we previously reported, Kehlani was placed on a psychiatric hold Monday after posing a threat to herself in the wake of rumors she cheated on Irving with a previous boyfriend.

For the record, Kehlani strongly DENIES cheating -- saying she and Irving were broken up when she got back with her ex.

But Brown ain't buyin' it -- trashing Kehlani in several tweets ... and saying she's basically been blackballed from NBA games.

The Internet went insane over Brown's comments -- with people coming out of the woodwork to blast the singer for being insensitive.

Brown responded by saying, "I'll be the BIGGEST PIECE OF 💩. But ima ride for my Homies regardless. KYRIE is probably one of the only good guys left. IDGAF!!!"

As for Kehlani, it's unclear if she's in the hospital -- but sources close to the singer tell us she's doing much better.

Lil Wayne isn't just coming after Birdman in the rap world ... he's gunning for him in the sports world too ... signing the first NFL prospect to his Young Money Sports agency, FSU LB Reggie Northrup.

Sources close to the situation tell us Wayne specifically targeted Northrup ... because Weezy was blown away by Reggie's work ethic and drive.

Those same sources also wanted to make one thing clear ... this is a YOUNG MONEY athlete ... there's no business relationship at all with Birdman's Cash Money Sports ... home to Bucs WR Mike Evans.

The whole Young Money business team is down in Tallahassee right now for Reggie's pro day ... and you gotta wonder if Birdman's gonna be able to hang on to his guys now that Wayne is making his own play.

Omarosa is ripping into CNN's Don Lemon over an on-air feud -- but she did it by dropping a word many will take as a homophobic attack.

Omarosa was leaving the Staples Center in L.A. when we asked what she thought of Lemon -- who is gay -- cutting her microphone when she was on his show last week.

At first, she dismissed him as a "drama queen" ... but then she repeats her diss without the word "drama" -- and she did it multiple times.

After this, we're guessing Lemon won't be inviting her back for round 2 -- though it would make great TV.

Wanna see Matt Barnes beat the living hell out of Derek Fisher? Great, now you can.

A dude named Eric Bui turned the feuding NBA stars into characters in the new "EA Sports UFC 2" video game ... and let 'em battle it out in the Octagon.

It didn't go well for Fisher.

Enjoy!

Drake and Meek Mill's beef got physically violent when Meek took out his anger on Quentin Miller -- the guy he accused of writing Drake's raps -- by allegedly attacking him in Bev Hills.

Miller claims the beatdown happened at the Nike Store. He's not specific on when, but says it was after the whole feud blew up in Meek's face. You'll recall, Meek attempted to out Miller as the guy who wrote Drizzy's rhyme on "10 Bands."

Miller refused to take full credit and denied ghostwriting, which fueled the fan backlash against Meek.

Andre Berto is adamant he did NOT call Victor Ortiz a "f*g" during a fight at their press conference this week -- telling TMZ Sports, "I respect gay people."

Glenn "Big Dog" Robinson did NOT accept Stephen A. Smith's quasi-apology Tuesday morning -- in fact, he's even MORE pissed off now ... calls the guy a straight up racist.

Robinson just sent us a video response to Stephen A's comments on "First Take" this morning -- in which he apologized for bringing up old beef ... but said he stands by what he said.

Of course, Smith had called Robinson a racial hypocrite -- claiming Glenn talked about helping black coaches succeed in the NBA ... only to treat his former 76ers coach Randy Ayers (who's black) like "trash."

Watch the clip -- Glenn clearly takes offense ... and fires back at Smith in a big way.

Put down your popcorn ... Stephen A. Smith says he will NOT accept Glenn Robinson's invitation to fight him in a MMA cage match -- after Glenn called him out on "TMZ Sports."

Smith just appeared on "First Take" and actually APOLOGIZED to the former NBA star for dragging him back into the headlines by going public with their decade-long feud on a radio interview last week.

But it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows ... Smith made it clear the two sides hate each other -- will ALWAYS hate each other -- and he insists the allegations he made about Robinson being a racial hypocrite are 100% true.

As for the offer to fight it out once and for all ... Smith says "the street in me" wanted to handle it one way ... but the "grown man" in him convinced him to go another direction.

Smart move ...

Check out the "TMZ Sports" TV show weeknights on FS1.

Nobody wants to be like the Kardashian family because they're "trash" and they're taking advantage of America ... so says UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes.

Seriously, this guy HATES 'em.

So, why the hostility? Hughes goes into great detail ... outlining why they're a trainwreck family and "nobody wants to be like them."

The funny part ... despite the intense hatred, his own wife watches the show (and so does he!).

Maino says he's got a real problem with Adrien Broner doing "stupid s**t" -- like making it rain in a Walmart line.

The video that pissed Maino off was footage Broner posted on social media last week -- in which the boxer throws money in the air at a Walmart (in front of other people in line) saying he's too rich to need change.

"It's one thing to throw money in a strip club," Maino said ... "but it's another to be standing in line and throwing money up when you got regular people, every day working class mothers and working class fathers on the line."

Maino kept insisting he has no lingering "beef" with Broner -- but this clearly rubbed the dude the wrong way.

The Westboro Baptist Church is just a bunch of "awful people" ... and Charles Barkley says he hopes they all get their asses kicked for boycotting an openly gay basketball player.

We asked Sir Charles how he felt about the church targeting Seton Hall's Derrick Gordon -- the first openly gay man to play in the NCAA tournament ... and Chuck went off!!!

"I really hate them sumbitches," Barkley said ... "Hopefully, somebody will beat the hell out of those Westboro people."

Tyga's cruise ship performance ended with a bang, a full-on fight between his hype man, DJ S.B. and one of the guys from EDM trio Cash Cash -- what's up for debate is ... who started it.

Things went south early Saturday morning aboard the Inception at Sea cruise festival. Tyga started his set more than an hour late ... which eventually postponed Cash Cash, which was going on after him.

Sources close to Tyga tell TMZ ... when he wrapped up, the Cash Cash guys began unplugging S.B.'s gear. That sparked a verbal dispute, and then Jean Paul Makhlouf allegedly threw the first punch.

Now, the Cash Cash guys admit there was a verbal altercation, but claim Tyga's crew struck first. Makhlouf suffered a concussion, injured kidney and several bruises, according to his rep. Cash Cash was unable to perform.

No one's talking lawsuit ... yet, anyway.

We're told Tyga had nothing to do with the fight, he was already offstage.

Looks like Terrell Owens is taking the high road in his beef with Marvin Harrison ... even though he's yet to get an apology.

Owens was arriving at Staples Center Sunday for the Clippers game -- and we asked if he thinks Harrison owes him a "my bad" for ripping Owens over this year's Hall of Fame voting results ... Harrison got in, T.O. didn't.

Check out the clip ... T.O.'s taking a more chill approach to this feud now.

If Matt Barnes and Derek Fisher decide to settle their beef with one final UFC-style fight -- J.R. Smith wants a ticket ... telling TMZ Sports, "I would love to see that."

Smith even did some fight analysis ... breaking down the strengths of both guys.

"It would be a good one," said Smith ... who actually played for Fisher on the Knicks last season.

Of course, Fisher brought the feud back in the headlines Thursday -- saying he was essentially attacked by Barnes and refused to retaliate. He also said Barnes was NEVER his friend.

Derek Fisher is breaking his silence on his violent altercation with Matt Barnes -- claiming he wouldn't call it a fight ... because he was ATTACKED and refused to fight back.