Basketball and News:Gilbert Arenis and the gun toting NBA
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Gilbert Arenas is constantly making some kind of noise in the NBA whether it is draining 30 foot jump shots to lead the Wizards to victory or bringing guns into the locker room and keeping them there. You can imagine
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Gilbert Arenas is constantly making some kind of noise in the NBA whether it is draining 30 foot jump shots to lead the Wizards to victory or bringing guns into the locker room and keeping them there. You can imagine how Commissioner David Stern feels about both actions and maybe you can imagine what he plans on doing about them. One will be celebrated and the other will be punished.
Right now there are many stories circulating from Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton pulling guns on each other on the team plane over a card game to, as Gilbert relates, each player trying to prove who had the bigger gun.
Gun toting Gilbert Arenas
It is known for a fact that Gilbert had guns in the locker room of the Verizon Center where the Wizards play their games and kept them, unloaded he claims, in a wooden box in his locker. This can spell nothing but trouble for Gilbert Arenas due to the fact that the NBA is really trying to keep any hints of violence out of the media and out of the NBA in their appeal to the family ticket buyers.
Still this has brought on an investigation that is serious.
Through a series of tweets, Arenas appeared Friday to be trying to downplay the severity of the situation in his usual glib manner. But the potential range of punishments would figure to be severe given the stricter-than-usual gun laws in the District of Columbia and the NBA’s rules forbidding gun possession on league property.
Although no action from the league office is expected until the legal process plays out, which is the NBA norm, Stern is bound to take an especially dim view of the whole episode in deference to late Wizards owner Abe Pollin, who changed the team’s nickname from Bullets to Wizards in 1997 in part because he was so profoundly affected by the assassination of former Israeli prime minister and close friend Yitzhak Rabin. Until his death in November, Pollin was as close to Stern as any NBA owner.
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Sadly it appears that a high percentage of NBA players tote guns and that is not going to change soon.
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