If true, Stern will suspend these guys for the rest of the season. It takes a special kind of dumbass to do something this moronic.
http://ken-berger.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/11838893/19275335 UPDATE: Reporting via Twitter, Michael Lee of the Washington Post quoted Arenas as saying after practice Friday that he is considering suing the New York Post. "I saw the story," Arenas said. "Very compelling. Some real O.K. corral stuff." Arenas added, "That's not the real story." The league inquiry, which began several days before CBSSports.com first reported on Dec. 24 that Arenas was being investigated, initially focused on Arenas as the only team member to have possessed guns on team property, a clear violation of NBA rules. "There's no question the whole thing is going to be looked at," one of the sources with knowledge of the probe said. League authorities became aware of the matter in the days before CBSSports.com's Christmas Eve report that Arenas allegedly had possessed firearms in the locker room. Wizards officials scheduled a meeting with Washington, D.C., authorities for Dec. 23 to come clean about the matter, given the District's stringent gun-control laws. The meeting couldn't be arranged that day, so the team rescheduled for Dec. 24, several hours before CBSSports.com's story was published online, one of the sources said. After that report, the Wizards issued a statement saying that Arenas had stored unloaded firearms in a locked container in his locker at Verizon Center, and that the team was cooperating with NBA and legal authorities. Arenas told the Washington Times that he'd brought the guns to the locker room after deciding he no longer wanted them in his home after the birth of his daughter on Dec. 10. He told reporters this week that he'd removed them from his locker only to have them turned over to authorities because he didn't want them anymore. Washington, D.C., police issued a statement Wednesday saying they were investigating the presence of firearms at Verizon Center, without providing further details. Arenas said this week that authorities inquiring about the matter were mainly interested in whether he had obtained the guns legally. Arenas, 27, has a history of flirting with firearms possession laws; he was suspended for the 2004-05 season opener after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of failing to maintain proper registration of a firearm in California while with the Warriors in 2003. Ben Friedman, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C., told the Post that his office was working with D.C. police on the investigation. A call to the public information office of the Metropolitan Police Department was not returned Friday. The Post reported that the alleged dispute between Arenas and Crittenton stemmed from a gambling debt. A source with knowledge of the probe was unaware if that was among the details shared initially with NBA security, but the league has stated that it will investigate all aspects of the case.
If the allegation is true, I agree. But I can't believe this happened the way it's been stated so far. Or maybe I just don't want to believe it.
http://www.csnwashington.com/pages/landing_09/?blockID=110543&feedID=2992 Someone's head is going to roll at the NY Post.
Obviously all the speculation we've been doing is predicated on Arenas actually pulling a gun on a teammate. If the NY Post got it wrong, there's no cause to terminate his contract and I hope he sues the hell out of the paper.
That loud sound you hear is the Nets organization breathing a sigh of relief that they're no longer the laughingstock of the league.
The Wizards can make a claim for that, as can the Nets and Clippers. However, the biggest laughingstock in the NBA is hands down the GolXen State Warriors. Winning that series against Dallas was the best and worst thing that could happen to the franchise. It was a tremendous moral victory and a much-needed boost for their fan base. But they signed a bunch of guys to bad contracts. Nellie is a joke as a coach now. The whole Stephen Jackson incident was terrible, and they're killing Randolph's development. And, uh, they suck. They are really, really bad.
Long-term, I'd still have to give it to the Clips. Only TWO seasons above .500 and ONE playoff series victory in the 25 years they've been in LA? That's astoundingly bad.
I think its widely known that players play poker for big money on team flights. I read somewhere that rookies always get sucked into playing and biting off more then they can chew when playing with veterans who are making 5+ mil a year.
I was surprised when I saw you mention you were an Arenas fan in another thread a few weeks ago. I have high regards for your takes on all things basketball and never would have expected it. And I was strictly talking from a basketball perspective. I always saw Arenas as a selfish and pompous douchebag and never bought the whole zero to hero thing. To me, he was the McGrady of the Wizards. I never really followed him prior to his time in D.C. so I don't know about his early days in the league.
yep yep, if he's convicted of a felony the Wiz can void his contract, and I think they would plant a gun in his sneakers right now to make that happen.
Yea, as soon as Wizards "threatened" the Rockets with THAT trade offer, Morey pulled out HIS gun and fired. Lucky for us, Morey has a License to Kill! :grin: Seriously, thank God that we are in such goods hands...... This is the most hopeful I have felt about the Rockets' management in decades.
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Very longtime Gilbert fan. He's not like McGrady at all. He's one of the most fanatically dedicated guys to basketball the NBA has ever seen. A true nutcase who can never practice enough. He really loves the game basketball and it shows. It was this dedication and having a chip on his shoulder that made him develop into a superstar from being a 2nd round draft pick. In addition, he's a giant goofball who knows he's fortunate to be in the NBA and that the fans are why the league is successful. He used to have legions of fans on the road and went out of his way to make them happy by putting on a show on the court and being friendly off it. There are boatloads of stories where he interacted with fans off the court away from games. More players need to do that. He openly discussed how he built relationships with all of the officials and learned the quirks of each one. There's his relationship with his father, which is a great story and how his mother tried to get back into his life after he became an NBA star. There is lots more to say but that is enough. He's not a soft, moody, unaccessable diva who expected everything to be given to him. He worked extremely hard to get to the top. I can't rationalize some the stuff in his blogs and some of his public statements, but his other qualities more than made up for it. If you didn't see him play much and only knew what was on espn.com about him, I can understand why you might equate Arenas with McGrady. Since he signed the mega-contract, everything has gone downhill for Gilbert on the court. If this story is true, he'll pretty much be dead to me as a fan. He's an intelligent guy and to do this is so incredibly stupid, which is why I have doubts on whether it is true.
Great thinking, Gilbert. Instead of paying your teammate what would amount to an insignificant chunk of the $100+ million you're set to make, the contract will likely now be voided and you'll probably never have a chance with a career so lucrative again. +1 for displaying your incredible amount of forward-thinking.
