Hey NBA, wanna wrestle?

Nuggets, WWE in war over arena
AP

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- World Wrestling Entertainment thrives on outlandish story lines and characters, but the company finds itself embroiled in a real-life controversy with the Denver Nuggets. And WWE's bombastic owner is making the most of it.

The plot: Who has rights to Denver's Pepsi Center on Monday -- the Nuggets, hosting their first Western Conference final since 1985, or the WWE's traveling TV soap opera?



WWE chairman Vince McMahon, the promoter who helped transform professional wrestling into prime-time television entertainment, fired the first salvo Monday. In interviews with ESPN, he loudly called out Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke and challenged him to a steel-cage match. (Is there any other way to resolve a grudge?)

"Quite frankly, it's my view that Stan Kroenke should be arrested, should be arrested for impersonating a good businessman, because he's not a good businessman," McMahon said on ESPN.

The Nuggets are planning to play Game 4 of the NBA's Western Conference finals against the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday at the Pepsi Center, the team's home floor.

Uh oh NBA. Now you've gone and pissed off the Godfather of wrestling. I say the only way to resolve this is to have a PPV the Friday before featuring a triple threat match with Kobe vs. Carmelo vs. John Cena and then a Battle Royal between the remianing Lakers, Thuggets and the WWE locker room. Don't be suprised to see the NBA come out on top. Kobe has a wicked elbow drop and Bynum is a tough man to hoist over the ropes. I almost think they Thuggets should have to go this alone though. Then the WWE has a clear advantage unless Birdman gets to carry a gun. Then all bets are off.