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It's a Small World After All
Posted by Gilbert Arenas on July 2 2007, 9:19 p.m. ET
Woooo! That's two good looking people. I should have been a twin.
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Welcome to the Wizards, Nick Young
It’s a small world man. My dad coached Nick Young when he played AAU ball during the summer when he was in high school. He’s from where I grew up. He went to Cleveland High, I went to Grant. It’s funny, the same coach that recruited me to go to Grant ended up getting a job with USC and recruited Nick to go to the Trojans. He’s a really talented kid and he’s that scorer we needed, so I’m excited to have him come play with us.
Back from Vacation
I’m really serious when I say this: I’m trying to buy an island.
Diana Ross has one. You know, if you look at property in the states, if you look at my house, I paid $2 million for it and then there’s an island for $1 million. I’m like, “Woah, I have to buy an island.”
I’m really looking into that.
Otherwise, I’m doing good. I’m doing a 90-day trial period diet up until when training camp rolls around. I’m drinking water and eating salads and lean meats. I’m trying to get cut and ripped and get healthy. This is the new year.
I know I said was was afraid of the stingrays and sharks, but I actually got into the water with sharks on my vacation. I was swimming every morning with them. They were little 3-foot long sharks called blackheads. The locals said nobody has ever been bitten by a shark, there haven’t been any shark attacks, you know they’re not aggressive sharks.
So I was like, “All right, let me go in and give it a try.” But that was after I’d seen little kids in there swimming already, then I knew I could go in. I wasn’t going to be the first one in, that’s for sure.
Thoughts on Kobe
During vaction, mostly I just relaxed. I read a little bit, you know, hung out by the beach and then I came back to the states and I was like, “Damn, everyone’s getting traded!” I was on a trade rumor, a trade of me for Kobe and I was like, “Woah, what’s going on? I’m being traded?!”
I guess he really wants out of L.A., huh? Are the L.A. fans happy about this? It’s basically “he said, she said,” and you’re going to leave a city that embraced you because of “he said, she said”? I mean, I just think it’s a bunch of hocus pocus.
I mean, Shaq leaves, Phil Jackson leaves and now you want out? You know, I grew up an L.A. fan and as a fan of L.A. I don’t know what to feel like. I’m like, “Now wait a minute, you want to leave now?” I’m thinking as a fan, not a player. Wait a minute, I bought the 24 collection, you know? He signed 24 jerseys: 24 white, 24 purple, 24 yellow. I got all three colors. I’m a fan! I came back and it’s like, “Damn, he wants to leave no matter what?”
Any team he goes to, they’re going to have to get rid of a whole team to accommodate him. So he’s going to be most likely be in a worse situation than he was before. That’s how I look at it.
But with KG, I think it’s a great move to get into a bigger market. He’s been averaging 20 and 10 for the longest and people don’t recognize it like they should have.
I Was Named of the 50 Best Latino Athletes
I don’t speak any Spanish, but I have Cuban in my blood. My grandparents were Cuban. I’ll take it. I’ll take Top 50 beautiful something, I don’t care what it is.
Interesting Hair Cuts
What are my teammates doing with their hair? First Andray Blatche gets the Anthony Mason cut, and now I hear DeShawn Stevenson has a mohawk. It’s like, “What are you doing?” You have that much time on your hands that you go to the barber and say, “Can you carve in all this stuff into the back of my head?” I don’t have that kind of time. If they want to go outside looking silly, let them look silly.
Loving NBA LIVE
I played NBA LIVE ’08 against Kevin Durant and I lost bad. I sucked. It was the first time I played it though. I didn’t play ’07, I didn’t play ’06, I didn’t play ’05. After a while I thought that it wasn’t getting better so I became a 2K fan. But then the people at EA Sports came and told me they wanted to make the game better, I came on board because my first basketball game was NBA LIVE ’95. So once they started getting out of character it was like they weren’t progressing with the game so I became a 2K fan and then now I’m back to LIVE and I think all the 2K fans are going to come back to LIVE again because they’re going to see they made progress. It’s a lot smoother. It’s not as choppy as it used to be. It’s realer now. It’s not like, “Oh, this is fake. That doesn’t happen.” That’s all you used to say. You can’t say that now.
Odds and Ends
If you got your Gil Zero or Agent Zero jersey that wasn’t signed I want you to call this number: 202-369-7156. Her name is Sasha Jones and she is the lady who was supposed to make sure everything that got sent out was perfect. So, blow her phone up. Please. She will ask you to email her a digital picture of the item that wasn’t signed along with the packaging and receipt it came with to verify that you got it from GilsArena.com.
I just signed a four-year deal with Spalding. Me and Greg Oden. It’s commercials, product spots, etc. I am the “It Boy” of ’08 now. Oh, and I changed next season to The Sequel to The Takeover Reloaded because I didn’t get to finish last year the right way, I got hurt. So watch out for The Takeover Reloaded.
Arenas: It's A Small World After All
j/k of course. i like Gil he seems like an ordinary guy, who likes to talk a lot. and very open minded. 
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