Latest Basketball News:Could Gilbert Arenas be done for the year?
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The Washington Wizards have one of the most untradeable contracts in pro sports and that belongs to Gilbert Arenas for 110 million dollars. This is a contract that seems like a complete waste of money.
Now Gilbert
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Washington Wizards have one of the most untradeable contracts in pro sports and that belongs to Gilbert Arenas for 110 million dollars. This is a contract that seems like a complete waste of money.
Now Gilbert Arenas may have found a way for the Wizards to get out of this contract and get rid of Arenas once and for all. Arenas may be guilty of pulling a firearm on Javaris Crittenton while playing a card game called Bourre.
Is Gilbert Arenas a caricature of himself?
The nasty part for NBA Commissioner David Stern is the fact that this incident makes public two of the primary sins that the NBA does not want, that of violence and gambling. To have both of them existing in this same situation will certainly come to bear when punishment is meted out. Gilbert Arenas may have played his last game of the year.
What will come out when Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton are isolated and begin to tell their stories to the police in the gun wary area of Washington D.C.?
Not only has Arenas denied he pointed the unloaded gun, he denies he was gambling. Still, sources insist Arenas is a relentless high-stakes gambler, that he loves the action of it. One league source told Yahoo! Sports he approximated Arenas had lost as much as ,000 to ,000 in an evening betting on PlayStation games against a friend of former teammate Donnell Taylor.
“The guy went out the next day, bought a real nice car in cash the next day and still had money left over. Gil gave him his money.”
As for Crittenton, his agent, Mark Bartelstein, insisted his client never had a gun, and had done nothing to rise to the level of punishment. “I’m confident my client hasn’t done anything wrong,” Bartelstein said. “The fact will bear that out. It’s unfortunate that rumors get going and inaccuracies come out before the facts are known, but all we can do is wait for the investigation to conclude.… Javaris will be exonerated of any wrong doing.”
It’s clear Arenas will try to use his charm and clownish antics as the cornerstone of his defense. Whatever legal issues could arise with the strict gun laws in D.C., there’s still the matter of Stern’s punishment. This story has engulfed the league, and several league office and team sources believe Stern will be harsh in his judgment no matter what the legal system decides to do. This could be a suspension that extends over months, possibly the rest of the season.
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Gilbert is a high priced offensive NBA player that has never really found his way on defense and lives to play for himself. The very fact that he can play that game at such a high level has made him one of the elite in the NBA, but he is not untouchable, although after this incident most teams will not want to touch him with a ten foot basketball pole.
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