Gilbert Arenas’ suspension will run through the remainder of the 2009-10 NBA season, Yahoo! Sports is reporting. Arenas met with NBA commissioner David Stern earlier today to discuss the terms of his suspension. According to unnamed league sources, the terms are a plea bargain of sorts; Stern offered Arenas a shorter suspension, provided Arenas agreed [...]
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NBA super-agent Arn Tellem — representative of players like Pau Gasol, Derrick Rose and Tracy McGrady — gives his take on the NBA’s gun policy on the Huffington Post today. The NBA has a zero-tolerance policy on firearms. The league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement — implemented in 2005 — forbids guns at any NBA venue or [...]
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Gilbert Arenas is in deep, deep trouble for bringing four guns to the Washington Wizards’ locker room at the Verizon Center, in violation of both Washington D.C. law and the NBA firearm policy. Thankfully, he left the rest of his arsenal elsewhere, or we might have had World War III on our hands. According to [...]
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Gilbert Arenas has plead guilty to carrying a pistol without a license — a felony — and will be sentenced on March 26th. Prosecutors have agreed to seek a jail term of not more than six months. That effectively ends his career with the Wizards right? Eh, not that simple. Depends on what you mean [...]
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Troubled ex-NBA player Jayson Williams has plead guilty to aggravated assault in the 2002 shooting death of limousine driver Costas “Gus” Christofi. He’ll face a minimum of 18 months in prison, but avoids a more serious charge of reckless manslaughter, which could have meant a 10-year sentence. According to testimony at his first trial, the [...]
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David Stern has spoken, and Gilbert Arenas is in limbo indefinitely. But the story of Arenas, Javaris Crittenton and their confrontation at the Verizon Center is far from over. Crittenton’s role in all this is still far from clear, but according to a report in The Washington Post, his reaction to the incident was far [...]
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One of the most difficult facets of the Gilbert Arenas story is the nagging feeling that we still don’t know exactly what happened in the Wizards’ locker room on Christmas Eve. The New York Post made it sound like a Clint Eastwood movie. Arenas’ account was far more innocent — a bad joke, gone awry. [...]
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