“NBA Super Fan” James Goldstein Dates Models, Doesn’t Like Andrew Bynum
GQ interviewed billionaire, fashion plate and self-styled “NBA Super Fan” James Goldstein. It’s incredible. Goldstein has season tickets to both the Lakers and the Clippers and travels around the country to go to games. According to him, he often gets mistaken for a rock star. He was a fan of the NBA before it was fashionable. He also has an absurd house. Here are some of the highlights.
He brings women to games. They’re all models, just so you know.
I have several girls that I take regularly that all love the game and sometimes they request a certain nights. More often, I just ask them. They’re all models. I have a girlfriend in Moscow who just visited me a couple weeks ago and took her to her first game, which turned out to be the double overtime game between the Lakers and Oklahoma. I think she enjoyed the experience.
He’s totally BFFs with everyone in the league.
How do I get playoff tickets? It’s different each night. For example, in Memphis, Chris Wallace is a very good friend of mine, so he always has a ticket for me in Memphis. When I go to Dallas, I am very well known through the Dallas organization. When he first bought the team, the first Dallas game that I attended in L.A., Mark Cuban came over and introduced himself and referred to me as a legend, which was very nice. So ever since then, we’ve been friends. In the case of Denver, even though I’m very good friends with the owner of Denver, he doesn’t arrange a ticket for me. I’m getting a ticket through a fan that I’ve met in previous years.
Except Kobe. Kobe doesn’t really like him.
Every now and then Kobe surprises me by walking up to me shaking hands and giving me a nice smile. But for the most part, he ignores me. He doesn’t look at me and even went to the extent of telling Pau Gasol not to say hello to me. He’s never explained why.
He’s also not an Andrew Bynum Fan.
The only other Laker who doesn’t communicate with me or even give me a nod of recognition is Andrew Bynum, who I’ve never spoken one word to since he became a Laker seven years ago. All the other players are very nice to me.

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May 19th, 2012 at 7:42 PM
Wtf…
May 19th, 2012 at 8:29 PM
I can exPlain Bynum on this one: James Goldstein is fucking frightening
May 19th, 2012 at 8:43 PM
Do not know who this guy is. Also not sure if me being 22 plays any part in this.
May 19th, 2012 at 8:46 PM
I’d rather be poor and look like me, than be a billionaire and look like that.
/looks at girl in GQ article
//weeps
May 19th, 2012 at 8:51 PM
I’d rather be poor and look like me, than be a billionaire and look like that.
You’ll never be a billionaire with that attitude
May 19th, 2012 at 9:04 PM
No doubt fullpoint….can say that bout alot of rich dudes. Howard stern comes to mind off the top
/fart man
May 19th, 2012 at 9:20 PM
Gross!
Homerun derby in CBP tonight! No lead is safe..
May 19th, 2012 at 9:29 PM
Hope the TBL people at CBP are enjoying the game.
Man with 30 kids wants a child support break. Winner of the year
May 19th, 2012 at 9:31 PM
I hope the Thunder break the Lakers tonight. It would be a day of epic fails by the home teams at Staples
May 19th, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Dude really needs to get snipped.
May 19th, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Why have season tickets to the Lakers if you hate them?
May 20th, 2012 at 12:00 AM
I went back and read the comments to the Schillling post. A commenter wants to throw down the bloghammer, please bring it.
May 20th, 2012 at 12:02 AM
Wide world of sport that u. troll city
May 20th, 2012 at 1:12 AM
Wow. Kobe really deserves a better team at this point in his career.
May 20th, 2012 at 1:15 AM
Kobe choked in the 4th quarter, again.
May 20th, 2012 at 1:20 AM
LOL no. Hope you’re just trolling for shits and giggles.
May 20th, 2012 at 1:23 AM
2 outta 10 in the 4th aint gonna get it done.
May 20th, 2012 at 1:24 AM
Chicago,
You must not have watched that game then.
Kobe was 2 for 10 in the last quarter and was taking horrible shots down the stretch.
May 20th, 2012 at 1:24 AM
It’s clear you didn’t watch the game.
May 20th, 2012 at 1:28 AM
rondo,
Any time they went to anyone else, it was a fucking disaster. Kobe gets passed the ball as a cop out by Gasol, Artest, and Bynum all the time with less than 7 seconds on the shot clock. Gasol was given a wide open mid range jumper that he hits all the time by a pass from Kobe with 30 seconds left. He decided to throw a cross court pass to a mediocre 3 pt shooter that was partially open, and the pass was intercepted. Kobe couldn’t trust anyone. Hence my “he deserves a better team”. With Bynum and Gasol on your team, your shouldn’t be able to be triple teamed.
May 20th, 2012 at 1:30 AM
LOL ok Kobe apologist.
They even just said on Inside the NBA that Kobe gets a free pass for his play down the stretch cuz he has won championships.
I seriously dont know what you were watching. They had a 13 point lead with about 8 minutes to go and Kobes 4th quarter was horrible.
May 20th, 2012 at 1:41 AM
I know that no one else was doing shit on offense for the Lakers. I’ve missed one game this playoffs, game 4 of Philly-Boston. I watch a shitload of basketball. I feel pretty confident about the game I just watched. Kobe was their best option, and it was clear no one else wanted the shots when they mattered most. Bynum acted like he did a couple times, but then he would get the ball and rush everything, getting poor position and throwing up a shit shot. And of course as I mentioned, they all throw him the ball with a low shot clock after the terrible offensive sets don’t work.
So yea, I won’t blame the guy that had 38 points, 8 rebounds, and 5 assists. If that makes me a fucking apologist, I think we’re done here.
May 20th, 2012 at 2:07 AM
Rondoman…seriously…stop..kobe was bad but so was everyone else on the team in the 4th. Im pretty sure you’re smart so stop taking the skip bayless imbecile route of only blaming the star despite the star keeping the team in the game. Pau amd Bynum pussied out in the fourth quarter.
May 20th, 2012 at 4:44 AM
No, pretty much everybody else in the 4th stood around and watched Kobe dribble for 12 seconds, then try and jack up a shot with 5 left on the clock. Pau or Bynum would jump out and try and set a screen 20 feet away from the basket, while the other one cleared out weak side so Kobe could “drive” to the basket if he didn’t feel like taking a contested jumper. The team scored 9 points in 3 minutes with Kobe on the bench, it scored 9 points the rest of the 4th quarter with him in the game, so don’t blame the other players, this is squarely on Mike Brown. This looked like nothing so much as Clevelands craptastic offense the last year or two that LeBron played there. Anybody remember the series against Orlando? This is damn near a carbon copy, but with an older, less athletic guy doing the iso.
May 20th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
He owns Jackie Treehorn’s house. Amazing view