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ROFLMAO
Wiz are better without him anyway
Front page, breaking news. No link as of this post. www.washingtonpost.com
ROFLMAO
Wiz are better without him anyway
Arenas is gonna do jailtime. You heard it here first.
Arenas suspended indefinitely
ESPN.com news services
NEW YORK -- The NBA has suspended the Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas indefinitely.
"Although it is clear that the actions of Mr. Arenas will ultimately result in a substantial suspension, and perhaps worse, his ongoing conduct has led me to conclude that he is not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game," commissioner David Stern said in a statement Wednesday. "Accordingly, I am suspending Mr. Arenas indefinitely, without pay, effective immediately pending the completion of the investigation by the NBA."
Multiple media reports over the weekend said that a dispute over a gambling debt led to a conflict between Arenas and Javaris Crittenton.
Multiple sources told ESPN.com that an argument commenced during a card game on the team's overnight flight back to Washington from Phoenix on Dec. 19 and escalated into a heated exchange between Arenas and Crittenton. The Wizards had Dec. 20 off, but sources say hostilities between the two Wizards guards resumed Dec. 21 in the locker room on a practice day.
Sources say that Arenas, in response to what was said on the flight, placed the three guns on a chair near Crittenton's locker stall and invited him to pick one before practice on Dec. 21. Sources said that Crittenton subsequently let Arenas know that he had his own gun.
The Washington Post reported in Sunday's editions that Arenas, according to sources, was expecting Crittenton to see the guns on his chair as a joke based on the earlier back-and-forth on the plane, during which Crittenton allegedly said that he would shoot Arenas in his surgically repaired knee.
But Crittenton, according to Post, reacted angrily and tossed one of the guns to the floor, saying he had his own.
In his statement, Arenas confirmed that the guns were brought out at the Dec. 21 practice.
"As I have said before, I had kept the four unloaded handguns in my house in Virginia but then moved them over to my locker at the Verizon Center to keep them away from my young kids," the statement read. "I brought them without any ammunition into the District of Columbia, mistakenly believing that the recent change in the D.C. gun laws allowed a person to store unloaded guns in the District. On Monday, December 21st, I took the unloaded guns out in a misguided effort to play a joke on a teammate.
Contrary to some press accounts, I never threatened or assaulted anyone with the guns and never pointed them at anyone. Joke or not, I now recognize that what I did was a mistake and was wrong. I should not have brought the guns to D.C. in the first place, and I now realize that there's no such thing as joking around when it comes to guns -- even if unloaded."
Arenas met with law enforcement officials on Monday to explain why he had guns at the Verizon Center last month.
Arenas' lawyer issued a statement saying that the player met with federal prosecutors at the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and detectives of the Metropolitan Police Department for more than two hours.
At the NBA's request, the firearms language was bolstered during collective bargaining in 2005. Players are subject to discipline if they bring guns to the arena or practice facility, or even an offsite promotional appearance.
bout time
I wonder what the Wizards are going to do with some of their players...perhaps some teams can make the most of this situation.
Whatever pay he was set to receive over the period should be donated by the Wizards to a charity serving/protecting the victims of gun violence so the Washington franchise doesn't make out like bandits by not having to pay Arenas his salary. They were very lax in this process, seemingly from its beginnings to its conclusion. They shouldn't be allowed to not pay Arenas, but rather pay that entire amount to a non-violence organization...
Delonte West's multiple personalities thinks this is hilarious.
Not to defend Arenas, but Stern.
Good.
Am I the only person who yawns and says "What is the big ing deal?"
I'm sure that fat white sportswriters will point to this as proof that the NBA is overrun by thugs, but I think it's hilarious that a couple of soft millionaire athletes like to play at being gangsta.
He deserves to be suspended
Shoot, they should've at least suspended him after today's game with Shaq and Cleveland. LOL
you're obviously not familiar with DC gun laws.
jailtime is pretty much mandatory if they can prove Arenas had the guns. If they can prove he threatened someone.... bye bye Gilbert for a few years.
for example, in DC homeboys get locked up 3 years for each bullet found with a gun. FOR EACH BULLET.
arenas said his gun wasnt loaded, so is that equal 0 years?
Do we know who is going to take Arenas minutes ? Foye ?
No, I'm well aware of the gun laws. I'm just saying, aside from that, what's the big deal?
He probably thinks its funny. No biggie to him.
you don't think guns in a locker room is a big ing deal?
so committing felony in the locker room is no longer a big deal?
additionally, what Jack somersett said, he was still joking about it. Stern had enough. NBA was actually pretty leniant on this matter.
The two guys in question are pussies who would never actually discharge their weapons. The guns probably weren't even loaded.
Either him or that midget.
Maybe Findog is still living with his parents and doesn't have any experience in the real world?
Quit being such a JiggaBoo...You fail to includethe fact that Arenas' handguns were licensed
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