Jay-Z Has Too Much Time On His Hands

So, here's the story that's been floating around DC tonight : Last night at Love (the DC nightclub where Gilbert Arenas had his famous 25th birthday party), LeBron James was hosting a party where the DJ played a new Jay-Z diss track about Wizards G DeShawn Stevenson. DeShawn and LeBron have been talking shit to each other for the past few weeks; somehow Soulja Boy got involved - it's all very complicated. Anyway, the word is that after Jigga played the two verse DeShawn-rip, Cavs G Damon Jones (he of the 'always wearing sunglasses indoors' style) then got on the mic and started talking more trash about the Wizards. Caron Butler was in the club and stormed out, and now all the Wizards are boycotting Love and owner Marc Barnes's other spot, Park. Again, I don't know whether all this is true, it's just the good word as related to me from a reliable source. This series really needs to go seven games now, just on the off-chance that 2Pac might get in on all this.

Update: Michael Lee has the comprehensive rundown on his Wizards Insider blog at washingtonpost.com and makes a salient point: Jay-Z is part-owner of the Nets, meaning an NBA owner just recorded some rap verses dissing a player on another team. This would be like Jerry Jones battle rapping Eli Manning over the beat to 'Hit 'Em Up'. Unmentioned, but perhaps just as interesting, is that said diss track was written on behalf of an NBA player on another team; one that has been (and will be) rumored to be joining Jigga in Brooklyn when the Nets move there. This hasn't happened since Abe Pollin re-worked the lyrics to 'Moon River' in an effort to persuade Juwan Howard to stay in the District.
Also, Lee writes that after hearing the song, Caron Butler paged Stevenson (below) to tell him about it. Rap beefs, pagers; it's all so 1994. I love it.