NBA has suspended Gilbert Arenas indefinitely until investigation ends

[QUOTE=NoGunzJustSkillz]he is bringing bad publicity to the nba. stern, here is a guy that makes his players wear suits to games and after games. he doesn't want the league portrayed as some gangster gangster league. gilbert is an absolute idiot for putting himself into a situation such as this. if gil kept them guns in his locker, maybe i agree with you. but joke or not, you don't put 3 guns onto somebodies seat after a heated argument and think that player is gonna take it as a joke.[/QUOTE]

I agree....Arenas is an idiot. To be honest, I have never felt like he was worth $121M...always thought he was a smartass. I'm sure of that now:oldlol:. But, that doesn't mean they should take all his money. Suspension,fine...yes. A loss of $78M over [I]this?[/I]. Come on, you can't possibly think that's reasonable. That's assuming no one was threatened, though.

The Wiz feel stupid for signing him and see a perfect opportunity to get that money back seeing as they aren't going anywhere. I understand that. Based off of what he have seen in the past, I can't see them having a real strong argument.

It will all come down to what really happened between him and that bench player, though.

JC ain't got to say jack sheet about the situation. He's the victim in this propaganda...

[QUOTE=Soundwave]I think Arenas probably was thinking if he makes light of the situation or makes it into a "joke" (like he was pulling to gun out on a teammate as a "joke") that it would blow over easier. So he was probably doing that stuff as part of a strategy, but it just dug himself deeper into a hole.

Pretty bad miscalculation, lol.[/QUOTE]
really who the fck would think like this? it's just mind boggling how fcking stupid a millionaire can be at times.

[QUOTE=thejumpa]I agree....Arenas is an idiot. To be honest, I have never felt like he was worth $121M...always thought he was a smartass. I'm sure of that now:oldlol:. But, that doesn't mean they should take all his money. Suspension,fine...yes. A loss of $78M over [I]this?[/I]. Come on, you can't possibly think that's reasonable. That's assuming no one was threatened, though.

The Wiz feel stupid for signing him and see a perfect opportunity to get that money back seeing as they aren't going anywhere. I understand that. Based off of what he have seen in the past, I can't see them having a real strong argument.

[B]It will all come down to what really happened between him and that bench player, though.[/B][/QUOTE]
i agree with your post. however imo if gilbert sees any jail time, the wizards will have a strong case to cease his contract.

[QUOTE=bagelred]So you think he should be punished more because he's an idiot? I don't. [/quote]

Punished more? He was suspended indefinately. He was probably gonna be suspended after the legal process ran its course. But now? He's being suspended early until they determine his actual suspension because he was acting a fool. He brought this on himself. What punished more are we speaking on?

Voiding contract? That'll be a fight. Cant think of anything else.

[quote]But a whole rest of season or more would be outrageous.[/QUOTE]

If its more than the rest of this season? I'll agree. But with Gilbert who knows what he says or does now. Could rub Stern the wrong way even more.

[QUOTE=bagelred]So you think he should be punished more because he's an idiot? I don't.

And everyone LOVES the little banana guy, don't you? :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

This is the same David Stern who didn't punish Isiah Thomas when he was found responsible for sexual harassment....am I right? WTF?

How DARE you Gilbert....How DARE you......finger wagging.........give me a break. Punish the guy....make sure punishment fits the crime....let's be done with it....But a whole rest of season or more would be outrageous.[/QUOTE]
The difference between Isiah and Gilbert is pretty big. I agree that they should have suspended Isiah without pay for 30 days, but on the other hand he didn't rub Stern's face in it. Isiah didn't get on Twitter and ***** about how everyone was picking on him.

I mean, I'm sure if Isiah would have dry humped that broad during a televised game than they would have taken some more disciplinary action. That's pretty comparable to the reaction Arenas put on last night.

so when somebody gets suspended without pay, where does that money go?? back to the owner?? the nba?? stern's pockets??

[QUOTE=beasly15]so when somebody gets suspended without pay, where does that money go?? back to the owner?? the nba?? stern's pockets??[/QUOTE]

damn are you stupid? without pay means the guy that was paying you stopped paying you...so in this case it would be the owner...seriously...

[QUOTE=bagelred]So you think he should be punished more because he's an idiot? I don't.

And everyone LOVES the little banana guy, don't you? :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

This is the same David Stern who didn't punish Isiah Thomas when he was found responsible for sexual harassment....am I right? WTF?

How DARE you Gilbert....How DARE you......finger wagging.........give me a break. Punish the guy....make sure punishment fits the crime....let's be done with it....But a whole rest of season or more would be outrageous.[/QUOTE]
That's not what GoBB said (and I agree with) at all. You remember the phrase, "you play too much" when we were kids? That's Arenas. Whether or not Stern is being fair isn't the issue. What the deal is, is that Stern has the power to punish Arenas severely so Arenas had better straighten his **** out, stop trying to be so damn funny and realize everything he stands to lose. Because sports commissioners will absolutely make an example out of a player like Arenas to convey the message to the public as well as the other players that the behavior isn't tolerated. Is that going to lead to a fair punishment? Probably not. But it's what's going to happen. It's reality. And so Arenas had better deal with it, because Stern isn't going anywhere, and even if he did, whoever replaced him wouldn't put up with **** either.

[QUOTE=The_Yearning]damn are you stupid? without pay means the guy that was paying you stopped paying you...so in this case it would be the owner...seriously...[/QUOTE]

but you know stern has to get some of that. he just dabs the owner and says "we got him, have my money ready".

If he had just said, "no comment", he'd still be playing and getting paid.

Gilberts mouth may have just cost him 80 million and his job.

[QUOTE=bdreason]If he had just said, "no comment".[/QUOTE]


Thats the route I would have taken. NO COMMENT.

Arenas is not very bright...to say the least.

When you are under investigation, and your future monetary contract is possibly in doubt, the last thing you want to do is attract unwanted attention by mimicking a gun shooting in front of 20,000 people and the TV cameras....Joking or not, it's the last thing the NBA and Stern want to see. That had to have been the last straw. Arenas just doesn't get it.

I mean seriously, does he even have a functioning brain?

[QUOTE=chazzy][IMG]http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9690/gilbertarenas0110580.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

The funny thing is Brendon Haywood hinted at this before, when he was singing "I've got a big ego-o-o", that song by Kanye/Beyonce when Arenas was talking to reporters and throwing his teammates under the bus earlier in the season after a string of losses.

It seems like in that picture, the wizards set Arenas up. It was all planned :oldlol:

hahah it does look like they set him up! I wonder what his teammates are thinking now. Surely they saw this coming. Deshawn Stephenson seems like a smart guy...