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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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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There’s been a fair amount of hype — thank you, New York Post — surrounding the pre-Christmas incident involving Gilbert Arenas, Javaris Crittendon and a couple of firearms. Let’s cut through the most sensational aspects of the story, and concentrate for a moment on what we know to be true: Arenas, by his own admission, [...]
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Descriptions of the armed confrontation between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittendon in the Verizon Center locker room range from “practical joke gone bad” to something out of the movie Tombstone. Here’s a reconstruction, cobbled together from a host of Internet reports and sources: The conflict began on the Wizards’ flight back from Phoenix on the [...]
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Two Washington Wizard players threatened each other with handguns in a locker-room dispute involving gambling debts, the New York Post is reporting. According to unnamed sources, guard Javaris Crittenton was arguing with teammate Gilbert Arenas about an unpaid gambling debt when Arenas pulled out a pistol. Crittenton, in response, produced his own gun. Arenas’ name [...]
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