MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- When Nick Young was traded to Los Angeles in March he asked to wear No. 0, homage to his long-time friend and mentor, Gilbert Arenas. No bleeping way, the Clippers told him. The past is the past; it's time to turn the page.
Free-agent guard Gilbert Arenas will sign with the Memphis Grizzlies so long as he passes his physical, he told SI.com.
When Gilbert Arenas pulled the plug on his "AgentZeroShow" Twitter account last September, he went dark in ways we hadn't seen since his fascinating rise and infamous fall.
Free-agent guard Gilbert Arenas conducted a workout in the Los Angeles area Sunday that was attended by Lakers officials, the three-time All-Star confirmed to SI.com via text message.
While the rest of us are contriving our unlikely resolutions for the New Year, the league's players, coaches and teams are already two months into their season. Therefore, we can applaud those who have begun to fulfill their own noble intentions since last season ...
The Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards are discussing a deal that would send Gilbert Arenas to Orlando, multiple league sources confirmed to SI.com on Friday.
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NEW YORK -- The fall of Gilbert Arenas has been long and well-chronicled. His days as an NBA All-Star have long been forgotten, erased by the memories of a bum knee that robbed him of the better part of two seasons and a monstrous mistake, his decision to bring unloaded guns into the Wizards locker room last season, which cut short a third.
NEW YORK -- The worst shall not be first, not yet anyway. But the Wizards will not be last any longer.
It's an old adage, one often repeated: The night is always darkest just before the dawn. It's an axiom the Washington Wizards now fully understand. An '09-'10 season that began with championship aspirations was shaken by the untimely death of longtime owner Abe Pollin and the season-long suspensions of Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton and ended with franchise cornerstones Antawn Jamison, Caron Butler and Brendan Haywood wearing different uniforms and Arenas watching from the closed quarters of a halfway house.
Gilbert Arenas is sentenced to two years of supervised probation for bringing guns into his team's locker room.
Suspended NBA star Gilbert Arenas was sentenced to two years of supervised probation Friday for bringing guns into his team's locker room.
Lawyers for suspended NBA star Gilbert Arenas say he should not have to go to jail for locker room gun violations when a judge decides his sentence Friday in Washington. Prosecutors said they want a three-month prison sentence.
Apparently, tweeting is not good enough for apologies. Which is why suspended Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas decided to take up a more traditional method of issuing his mea culpa: through an op-ed piece in a newspaper. (Who said nobody reads newspapers any longer?)
We gave you our midseason awards and, on Thursday, the rest of the 2010 All-Stars will be named. But we checked in with a handful of scouts to get their thoughts on the season so far. Here's how they voted in some key categories:
The NBA's decision to suspend Washington Wizards guards Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton for the remainder of the season doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who was within earshot of commissioner David Stern over the past month.
NEW YORK -- Washington Wizards players Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were suspended for the remainder of the season Wednesday by NBA commissioner David Stern.
Dirk Nowitzki isn't a team cheerleader. He never has been, never will be and has never even pretended to be. So why are fans and media alike waiting for the 12-year veteran to become one?
Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas pleaded guilty Friday to a felony for carrying an unlicensed pistol outside a home or business. Prosecutors recommend that he should serve no more than six months in jail. D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin, however, will decide whether and how long Arenas will spend time behind bars. Arenas is scheduled to be sentenced March 26.
Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas pleaded guilty Friday to illegally possessing an unlicensed handgun in the District of Columbia in a locker-room incident last month.
Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas, already suspended indefinitely and without pay by the NBA, has been charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office with a felony for carrying an unlicensed pistol outside a home or business. The felony charge carries with it a possible prison term of up to five years. Arenas could have faced four felony counts, since he reportedly possessed four separate guns.
Suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas was charged with felony gun possession on Thursday in connection with a locker-room incident with a teammate last month.
Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas has been charged with a felony gun violation after admitting he drew guns in the team locker room in a highly publicized December 21 incident.
Former NBA star Karl Malone is an avid hunter who publicly declared his advocacy of the right to bear arms by becoming a spokesman for the National Rifle Association. SI.com asked Malone for his thoughts on the situation involving three-time All-Star Gilbert Arenas, who acknowledged Monday that he stored unloaded guns at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., and said he displayed them in front of Wizards teammate as "a misguided effort to play a joke."
Because of Washington guard Gilbert Arenas' decision to store firearms -- unloaded handguns, according to the player and the Wizards -- in his locker, he could soon face the wrath of law-enforcement authorities, the NBA and his team. Arenas' woes may be compounded if he and teammate Javaris Crittenton drew guns on each other during an alleged locker-room argument.
Gilbert Arenas all but asked the NBA to forbid him from playing, and now David Stern has obliged. The commissioner's decision Wednesday to suspend indefinitely the Wizards' All-NBA guard affirms my earlier belief that Arenas will be banned without pay for the rest of the season.
NBA commissioner David Stern indefinitely suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas without pay on Wednesday.
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Opportunity rarely knocks for teams with bloated payrolls, underachieving players and more long-term contracts than a bailed-out Fortune 500 company. But for the Washington Wizards, it's banging on their door. And all they have to do is open it and shove Gilbert Arenas right out.
Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas admits he drew guns in the team locker room in a highly publicized December 21 incident, but says he was only kidding around.
CNN's Susan Candiotti examines whether current gun rules in professsional sports are tough enough.
Gilbert Arenas is three inches shorter, 45 pounds lighter and far less intimidating than Ron Artest. But they have one potential similarity that should be feared by Arenas: He, like Artest five seasons ago, will face a mammoth penalty imposed by commissioner David Stern.
Two Washington Wizards teammates -- three-time NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton -- drew guns on each other in the locker room after practice during a Christmas Eve argument over money, according to a report in the the New York Post.
It was a typical pre-game scene for the Washington Wizards, a team with a well earned reputation for having one of the loosest locker rooms in the league. Laying on a training table in the middle of the visiting locker room, Caron Butler peered over the shoulder of Wizards trainer Eric Waters to observe reserve forward Oleksiy Pecherov shoveling an orange into his mouth.
As he sat at his locker last week Gilbert Arenas looked thicker, more muscled than two years ago. On the court he appeared stiffer, less confident.
The Washington Wizards were finishing a shootaround before a recent game against New Orleans when Gilbert Arenas emerged from the home locker room. Dressed in black sweat pants and a long-sleeved Wizards T-shirt, Arenas walked without a limp. When he spotted Hornets guard and former Wizards teammate Antonio Daniels making his way toward the visitors' locker room, Arenas ran toward him (again, no limp) and gave him a quick chest bump. He looked strong. He looked healthy. He looked like a player ready to make his season debut.
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Gilbert Arenas' name was once synonymous with several positive words. Explosive. Dynamic. Colorful. These days there is a new word that has become closely associated with Arenas, one he would undoubtedly prefer to keep his distance from.
The Washington Wizards have decided to keep their Big 3 together.
It has to be one of the toughest decisions for an NBA coach in the playoffs. Do you let a star player who has been injured come back and assume a dominant role with the team? Or do you try to work him back in a way so as to not disrupt the chemistry that got you to the postseason in the first place?
Awards season is just around the corner. Before you get bogged down in the same old MVP debates or how Doc Rivers did a better job coaching than Byron Scott, let's honor those for whom there won't be any hardware, but who have made a lasting impact on the 2007-08 season.
BOSTON -- Gilbert Arenas appears to be discovering his inner Charles Barkley. After years of deprecating himself as an underdog never expected to accomplish anything, Arenas has vaulted to the other end of the spectrum. Now his words are as loud as his game.
Sitting in the second-floor VIP room of the NBA Store in midtown Manhattan, Gilbert Arenas contemplates the question: Have you ever considered your basketball mortality?
1. Quote of the day, from Mavericks owner Mark Cuban: "Your coach sat players for being fat. I guess you couldn't lead them away from the buffet." That's from Cuban's war of words with Heat star Dwyane Wade. The Mavs boss waded into a spat between Wade and Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki after Wade criticized the German's leadership abilities. Cuban is the Gilbert Arenas of NBA owners -- sometimes he's a little nuts, but he certainly keeps things interesting. Most recently, he offered the perspective that if a current NBA player publicly admitted that he was gay, that it "would be the best thing that ever happened to [him] from a marketing and endorsement perspective."
You have to wonder what Jerry Sloan was thinking. With the clock ticking toward zero in Monday's game between Washington and Utah, Agent Zero, also known as Gilbert Arenas, began making his move toward the basket.
SI.com: Capital issuesupdated: Fri Jan 05 2007 12:32:00
They are one of the NBA's stealth teams. Despite back-to-back playoff appearances, the Wizards seldom get mentioned in the discussion about top Eastern contenders. Maybe it's because they were bounced in the playoffs by the Heat and Cavs, respectively, the past two years. Maybe it's because they don't play any defense.
SI.com: The Decemberistsupdated: Tue Jan 02 2007 19:05:00
NEW YORK (Ticker) -- Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas, who erupted for games of 60 and 54 points in December, was named NBA Eastern Conference Player of the Month on Tuesday.
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