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My favorite quotes (in bold) from that widely-read, and blogged about, USA Today interview with Gilbert Arenas. Arenas, now with the Memphis Grizzlies, talks about all his trouble in Washington and answers questions about his (supposed) brandishing of firearms in the Washington locker room that got him suspended for 50 games during the 2009-2010 season.
-“No one knows me for throwing my jerseys or averaging 29 points (in 2005-06). All they know is I pulled a gun on my teammate. So I don’t want to be noticed.”
-“No one actually saw a gun in my hand at all. … I was not pulling a gun on anyone. That’s actual fact.”
About the gun incident in Washington, this is what Arenas said transpired:

Then-Wizards center JaVale McGee had beaten Crittenton out of $1,100 in a card game. Wizards guard Earl Boykins loaned McGee $200. McGee didn’t immediately pay back Boykins as he won the money and an argument blossomed. Arenas says he wasn’t involved in the actual bet.
” ‘Pay the man his (expletive) money. You’ve got all my money,’ “ Arenas says Crittenton shouted at McGee. “So I jumped in, ‘Why you talking to your teammates like this? We family.’
“That’s when (Crittenton) started coming at me, ‘(Expletive, racial slur), just because you got all money, this and this and this.’ That’s when we started going back and forth. I didn’t owe him anything. It was over a $1,100 pot he just lost.”
Arenas pauses and sighs when asked how the situation escalated to the point of guns.
“Someone said they were going to shoot me. So since I’m one of those guys who says, ‘I want to see this happen. I want to see you actually shoot me,’ that’s where that came from,” says Arenas, declining to mention that someone by name. “I brought the four guns in and said (in a note), ‘Pick 1, so the day you want to shoot me let me know, I’ll be ready to get shot.’ That’s how.”
According to a D.C. Superior Court document from Jan. 15, 2010: Several witnesses agree that during an argument on a Dec. 20, 2009, flight from Phoenix to Washington, Arenas threatened to shoot Crittenton in the face and set his Escalade on fire and that Crittenton threatened to shoot Arenas in the knee.
The document further details that witnesses saw Arenas lay out his firearms in front of Crittenton’s locker and that Crittenton brought out his own.

—“The reason I’m not angry, it’s business. I got that now,” Arenas said. “My owner was Abe Pollin.
—“I remember we were at his memorial and Brendan looked at me and said, ‘You’re not protected anymore.’ We laughed about it — and then a month later (the locker room incident happened).”
About the time Arenas put fecal matter in Andray Blatche’s shoe:

There were other incidents with Arenas, too. According to him, Blatche once threw his clothes in a Jacuzzi, accusing Arenas of cutting up his suit. Arenas denied the suit-cutting because he wasn’t in the building and insists it was another Wizards teammate. But Arenas was OK with playing that game. He got payback with Blatche’s shoes.
“It was just dog doo-doo in it. It was really dog doo-doo. … I took his sole out, threw it under there, put the sole back on and threw the baby powder on there so he couldn’t smell it,” Arenas said.
But today, “We’re all friends,” Arenas said of his former teammates today. “We’re still cool. We still talk to each other. Everyone is happy they’re in better places.
“What’s funny is when JaVale and Nick (Young, another former teammate) got traded this year, they called me and said, ‘We out on good behavior. Dray went up for his parole hearing and got denied,’” Arenas’ way of saying Blatche still remains with the Wizards. “We make a joke about it.”

—”He was cussing out Q, and then after the game he smiled to him and said, ‘Hey, the only reason I’m cussing you out is because I believe in you. You need to believe in you.’ Right there, I was like, ‘So he doesn’t take it personal?’ ” Arenas said of Hollins. “Q doesn’t go home and dwell on it so Q doesn’t come back the next day thinking Coach doesn’t like him now.”
—“My image, I don’t want to rebuild it. What was it before? If you really think about it, it was an erratic, eccentric player. The image I built was the image I was selling. I was selling the Agent Zero product.”
—“What you see on the court is not who the person is. That’s what they’re showing you. All that Twitter, that’s product placement. ‘We had a good day. Great team win.’ … ‘Oh, bad loss, get ‘em next week.’ No one is really trying to be themselves because being themselves gets them in trouble.”
— “If you go out there and say, ‘(Expletive) coach didn’t play me today,’ that’s really me, but I’m going to get killed for that. So nobody is really themselves on Twitter.”
—“All of this just happened at one time. It was too much,” Arenas said. “As many jokes I was telling to show I have it together and this hasn’t phased me. … I just wanted to be out. I said (to Stern), ‘Don’t worry. I’m not going to fight you (on the suspension).’”
—“Forget everything else, it’s the NBA,” Arenas said. “You have the best job in the world.”
Spruce Derden/U.S. Presswire

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