Khloé Kardashian's reputation is a tale of two Khloés. (Note to self: Pitch a series to E! called A Tale of Two Khloés.) If you watch the popular TV-show-slash-tabloid-story farm system Keeping Up with the Kardashians, then you probably think pretty highly of Khloé Kardashian. She's funny. She's blunt. She seems like much more of a real person than her siblings, though in reality that probably says less about her and more about her siblings.
Now, on the other hand, if you don't watch the show and you primarily know Khloé through her constant dating of professional athletes, you might hold a different opinion. Among sports fans, Khloé has (I would argue unfairly) become seen as something of a human Madden Cover jinx. At various points over the last few years, fans have blamed Khloé for the declining career of Matt Kemp, Lamar Odom's myriad problems, and James Harden's unwillingness to play defense. Now that she's dating Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson, it was only a matter of time before someone found a way to blame Khloé for something, and sure enough, as soon as the still-dominant Cavs went on a little skid, that's exactly what happened. But Khloé wasn't going to let that fly.
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That is how you shut a rando down. Look, I get it. Sports fans are wildly superstitious. When I heard that Khloé was dating one of the players on my favorite sports team, for a brief second I was nervous. But that was immediately followed by the rational part of my brain not caring. If she and Tristan make each other happy, good! Happiness leads to better job performance, and if Tristan gets that happiness from the star of the most popular show in the O. J. Simpson Cinematic Universe, who are we to judge?
