Jamison: Arenas Ready For Action, Revenge
SportingNews

Wizards PF Antawn Jamison is excited. Well, he is excited because he knows someone who is excited—longtime teammate PG Gilbert Arenas, who has been limited to just 15 games in the last two seasons because of knee injuries.

Both the Wizards and Arenas have undergone heavy criticism for the six-year, $118 million contract Arenas signed last summer, after which it was discovered he would need more knee surgery. This summer, though, Arenas has been working out in Chicago. Jamison said he talks to him regularly, and said Arenas is eager to exact revenge on his critics.

"I think people are going to be shocked by where he is, by how ready he is to play," Jamison told Sporting News. "There is going to be rust, of course, but he is going to be ready. I think sitting out for two years has really motivated him. I know Gilbert, and the guy loves basketball about as much as anyone I know. It's killed him to be out this long. Plus, the criticism and all of that, he has listened to it, he has taken it. Now he wants some payback."