Ron Artest Sexting Scandal: Deadspin 'Saw the Pics'

Brace Yourselves for a Ron Artest Sexting Story (Ron Artext)

Los Angeles Lakers Defender Ron Artest will be spending at least part of the NBA lockout in a sexting scandal. An as-yet-unnamed woman contacted Deadspin, saying that she had a brief sexting relationship (if that's the right phrase) with Artest.

According to the woman, Twitter correspondence turned to text-message correspondence, and that's when things took a turn for the jank. The link above contains an alleged screenshot of some of the sexting, but no pics. Yet.

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When Deadspin's Jack Dickey called Ron Artest to get his side of the story, Artest pretended that he wasn't Ron Artest (but he was). Deadspin gets many sales pitches for x-rated athlete photos, and publishes them in a sort of Hall of Shame. This woman, though, didn't ask for any money.

Okay, we just want to be in first with "Artext". Also, isn't Jack Dickey the perfect person to cover this story? It's like how we all first met Wolf Blitzer during the first Gulf War.