The Washington Wizard’s star guard, Gilbert Arenas, has been suspended indefinitely and without pay from the NBA for his involvement in bringing fire arms to the Washington Wizard’s locker room.  This incident has been a hot topic for a while now and some expected the NBA Commissioner, David Stern, to wait until this issue was handled legally before he sent down his punishment.  But after Gilbert Arenas’ demonstration last night, David Stern acted promptly.  Last night, during pre-game introductions, Gilbert Arenas made gun gestures with his hands as he pretended to shoot his teammates.  This action clearly shows that this guy just doesn’t get it.  His action to bring guns into the Wizard’s locker room was wrong entirely and it violated the laws of the NBA and the state laws of Washington D.C.  Arenas poking fun at this incident shows that he is an immature individual and he does not understand the severity of his actions.

People around the NBA are saying that the story became public after a heated argument over a card game took place on the Wizard’s plane after a game.  Arenas and his teammate Javaris Crittenton had a dispute over money being owed.  Apparently, the dispute carried over to the next day when Crittenton confronted Arenas in the locker room and Arenas responded by displaying his guns and telling Crittenton to pick one.  Crittenton knocked a gun on the floor and stated that he had his own gun.

The NBA already has a bad image to a lot of people across the nation.  People are tired of see young, rich, spoiled brats get into trouble with the law.  A lot of the NBA players today don’t have any self respect or respect for authority, let alone professionalism.  The NBA tried to clean up its image my enforcing a dress code while on NBA business, but that has not seemed to stop people from doing stupid things.  DUIs, drugs, guns, you name it, a NBA player has done it.  This Gilbert Arenas incident only hurts the NBA’ s image.  People will continue to think that the NBA is full of thugs.  I love basketball and it hurts me to see these things happen and it hurts me to hear all of the negativity that surrounds the NBA.  Gilbert Arenas will be forgiven, but for now he has to pay the consequences for his actions.

The Washington Wizard’s take on the Gilbert Arenas suspension:

“We fully endorse the decision of the NBA to indefinitely suspend Gilbert Arenas.  Strictly legal issues aside, Gilbert’s recent behavior and statements, including his actions and statements last night in Philadelphia, are unacceptable. Some of our other players appeared to find Gilbert’s behavior in Philadelphia amusing. This is also unacceptable. Under Abe Pollin’s leadership, our organization never tolerated such behavior, and we have no intention of ever doing so.”

Reasons Gilbert Arenas gave for having guns in the Washington Wizard’s locker room:

“As I have said before, I had kept the four unloaded handguns in my house in Virginia but then moved them over to my locker at the Verizon Center to keep them away from my young kids.  I brought them without any ammunition into the District of Columbia, mistakenly believing that the recent change in the D.C. gun laws allowed a person to store unloaded guns in the District.  On Monday, December 21st, I took the unloaded guns out in a misguided effort to play a joke on a teammate.  Contrary to some press accounts, I never threatened or assaulted anyone with the guns and never pointed them at anyone. Joke or not, I now recognize that what I did was a mistake and was wrong.  I should not have brought the guns to D.C. in the first place, and I now realize that there’s no such thing as joking around when it comes to guns — even if unloaded.“

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