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Update: Gilbert Arenas charged with felony gun possession
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01-01-2010, 10:12 AM | #2 |
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Best part is, his teammate drew one on him, too.
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01-01-2010, 10:23 AM | #3 |
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Someone is taking the whole push to change the name back to the Bullets to a whole other level.
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01-01-2010, 10:29 AM | #4 |
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01-01-2010, 10:45 AM | #5 |
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Christ, who would have thought it would be the NBA?
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01-01-2010, 11:05 AM | #6 |
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My money would be on Arenas. Everyone knows he is a better shooter than Crittendon.
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01-01-2010, 11:06 AM | #7 |
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I can't imagine this possibly being true. A more realistic story that I've heard was that Arenas was storing unloaded guns in his locker.
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Right after it, Gilbert Arenas, Javaris Crittenton Drew Guns On Each Other Over Gambling Debt: Report
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You can't imagine this being true..... In the NBA.... With Gilbert Arenas? |
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01-01-2010, 11:17 AM | #10 |
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Well, if Arenas is refusing to pay up on a bet, he pretty much deserves whatever is coming to him IMO!
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01-01-2010, 11:49 AM | #11 |
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A Gun? A Gun?
They are the Wizards, that is just all wrong... If 2 Wizards are going to duel, do it right Gilbert.
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Shit, first thing I thought of too! |
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Arenas is #1 with a bullet on the "Billboard NBA Players Who Are Untradeable" chart
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The only thing that would have made it better is if they were dressed up as cowboys.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the Wizards reported him to the police considering a conviction on firearms charges would void that horrible contract.
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01-01-2010, 12:34 PM | #16 |
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i cant believe they actually gave him that contract. not only is he always injured and coming off a horrible injury, but hes a massivly overrated ball hog. if they can get him charged with a crime they might be able to void his contract
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01-01-2010, 12:37 PM | #17 |
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If this turns out to be true, what kind of suspension comes down? I would imagine a season would be in order but I could actually see banishment from the game completely.
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Unbelievable. I guess Crittenton is lucky that Arenas misses 65% of his shots.
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I think the other amusing part of the story is that Arenas was using the Verizon Center as an armory for storing weapons.
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Heh...you can take the player out of Oakland, but you can't take the Oakland out of the player.
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I always regarded Arenas as the insane but nonviolent version of Ron Artest. Guess I can go ahead and put that one away. Also, he just last night started tweeting, immediately informing the world that the mother of his kid is now too fat for him to fuck.
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so, instead of guessing the league suspension : Any prison time for this ? What´s the law for sth like this in Washington ? (it varies state to state, doesn´t it ?)
How does this compare to Plaxico Burress ? Before i read "gambling debt" i was thinking "what kind of argument could Arenas have with a guy that´s not even on the game day roster at times ?" (stupid me actually thinking it´d be over basketball ...) Last edited by whomario : 01-01-2010 at 02:38 PM. |
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He oughta try that shit in K-Town, he'd get his ass smoked by superior firepower.
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In the NBA? I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!
/dumbass racist fucks EDIT: Go back to watching something more civilized, like fugly Canadians punching each other in the face while foaming-at-the-mouth inbreds scream "Rip each others heads off!"
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I can't even decipher what he's trying to say.
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01-01-2010, 04:43 PM | #31 |
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fwiw i don't think the comment was racist at all karl, and you come off like you're looking for a fight.
it's a fact that the NBA as a league has probably the highest % of its players involved in "incidents" - particularly incidents involving guns, etc. therefore it's not really surprising.
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Yeah, I am looking for a fight, because that's one of my biggest pet peeves in the world. Great, it's "probably a fact". Okay. Then why do not one, but TWO people need to chime in the fucking tired ass old WASP line "Oh, par for the course the NBA!" every time something happens. Wouldn't that be akin to two people saying "water is wet" in every thread? Why the fuck even bother saying it? You aren't contributing anything at all to the conversation. No humor, no original thought. Just "Oh, it's the NBA". Spare me. We've got drama in every sport. It's not just the NBA. Just from this year: Golf: Tiger Woods scandal NASCAR: Jeremy Mayfield meth scandal Football: Tennessee football players, Jimmy Clausen bar fight Baseball: Josh Hamilton Hockey: Players brawling with each other every game, much to the delight of an audience that would go "Oh, it's the NBA, not surprising" if two basketball players fight on the court. Errg. Sorry it just pisses me off.
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Oh, and Subby..that picture is awesome.
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We all know you aren't too bright Karl. No reason to be redundant.
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Sorry, it has nothing at all to do with race, it has to do with culture. The NBA isn't about being black but about being a thug. A culture is something you choose, a race you don't have a choice about. When I hear that two sports team mates drew guns I'm going to naturally think NBA first but if someone says two dudes drew guns on each other I'm not naturally thinking black guys. Huge difference.
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All I could hear when I read this is Arenas "This lockerroom ain't big enough for the both of us"
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Hey, I don't have a problem with you being mad at this, Karl, or with your stance, but if you really want to pick a fight with hockey fans on the board, this is a good way to go about it. You obviously don't have a fucking clue about the game, so maybe next time you stick to stuff you do have a clue about, whatever that is.
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Those thug boxers and MMAers who slug away at each other are bad for our country.
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spot on. I would also add the element of self entitlement that many pro athletes feel and that also extends to all sports and races and is also a choice. Be thankful you have the ability to become a millionaire playing a game, or be an ignorant dick who thinks he/she can make their own rules and do what the fuck they want. In terms of throwing Hockey under the bus, Hockey players off the Ice are the most down to earth "normal" athletes of the major sports and that also has to do with culture and choices. You don't see Anson Carter, Georges Larague or Donald Brashears et al, doing stupid shit like taking guns into clubs or pulling them out in locker rooms. |
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I think the NBA has a higher ratio of neck tattoos as well.
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FWIW, I think the NBA gets a bad rap from a few bad apples and actually has a ton of good guys, probably as many as most other sports as a percentage. But their bad guys seem to get in worse messes. I'm almost as big a fan of the NBA as I am the NHL.
All that said, anyone trying to step to the NHL had better be ready for a throwdown.
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Heh...when BYU posted his example of good NHL players, I just looked at the list and realized his examples are all black, and was thinking, "Man, why did he pick all black players as good examples?..." Then my "intelligence" gene finally kicked in and realized that was his point, lol...
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My bad...I had just woken up and was in a terrible mood. Sorry to Jeff and Oilers and anyone else I offended. It's kind of a sensitive issue, and I took it out on people who didn't really deserve it.
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I wouldn't disagree but the league is marketed that way for some reason. Maybe the problem is how few NBA players there are compared to other sports so the bad apples stick out worse.
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It probably would not be that big of an issue if the same reaction was done in other situations. Let's just take the last month or so. Chris Henry was died in a domestic violence situation, Terrell Suggs had a restraining order filed against him, two more players were caught with DUIs and one player was caught with weed in his car. These were either ignored, or dealt with as an individual issue. At no point during the Chris Henry thread or when there was a mention of Jonathan Babineaux's arrest for marijuana possession where there any posts about this being about the NFL. If the Arenas incident was obviously about the NBA, shouldn't the incidents above obviously be a relflection of the quality of individuals in the NFL?
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It would kind of like hockey fans who complain that the people make their judgments about the entire NHL today based on the Marty McSorley incident.
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