Packt
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http://my.nba.com/forum.jspa?forumID=400032200
I'm not a big Gil fan but there's some funny stuff in there.
I'm not a big Gil fan but there's some funny stuff in there.
Gilbert Arenas blogs about other peoples business
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Jechtsphere
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Love Gil, he really acts like a regular fan and just has a ball playing in the NBA.
kingsfan916
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lol thats funny
Andriod_KiNg
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LOL "The Wizards are doing well. They’ve been beating up on some good teams lately. They just beat down on the Cleveland Cavaliers, which without LeBron and Larry Hughes … that was like a practice squad."
BritishColumbia
Bench
I do not like Arenas but actually actually, he did a good job and I like what he said about Iggy and other guys. I do not think they will thank him for that 
If it was a fan, it would be funny. If it was a sportswriter, it might be funny. But this guy is making fun of other NBA players and that's not gonna be appreciated, IMHO. I don't like Gilbert Arenas anyway, though, so I couldn't possibly care less if he sticks his foot in his mouth all the way to the number on his jersey.
Jechtsphere
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Seems like people either love him or hate him.
He's just telling it like it is, if their feelings get hurt tough.
He's just telling it like it is, if their feelings get hurt tough.
Gargamel
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He's the guy who has to be the center of attention in the middle of the room. Hot dogger.
He's an active NBA player who should NOT be telling it like it is. It's just kinda stupid to be making those kinds of comments about guys who could end up being your teammate. Shows a lack of understanding of camaraderie and esprit de corps IMHO.
Yea so? Atleast he is entertaining. If you don't like him then don't listen to what he says.
Entertaining is relative. I don't think he's entertaining, I think he's annoying.
Last time I checked, people could post alternative opinions provided they did so in concert with the rules around here. No need to get snippy, is there?
lol I didn't mean to get snippy, so I apologize if it looked that way. I just don't see what is so bad about the guy. But if Slim finds him annoying, that's cool too. I never said people can't have opinions. I just meant that if someone finds him annoying because he's a hot dogger, then why give Gil the attention by reading what he says. That may not have been what I said but that was why I said it.
RaY Z
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I LOVE HIM.... the reason? why he says what he feels, he's honest and has nothing to hide, and like you said who cares if their feelings get hurt tough...
not too mention he's an AWESOME player too.... all the buzzer beaters last year... =) =) =)
acisking
Bench
I agree...he's too full of himself.
And as a player...he reminds me of AI several years ago - when all he did was jack up shots; he scored but did so relatively inefficiently. Hopefully, Arenas will learn to grow as a player like Iverson did - but somehow I doubt that will happen.
Gargamel
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From this point on, I will no longer listen to what he says. Thanks for liberating me.
6th
Homer Fan Since 1985
6th
Homer Fan Since 1985
Psst...6, please PM me his next blog so I can gripe about it in private.
Okay, as long as I don't have to read it first. 
Jerryaki
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"What’s the difference between 12 and 13 or 14? I know it’s $1 million, that’s a lot of money, but if you’re sitting there asking for 13-14 and they offer you 12 and you say, “No” then next summer you get offered, 10 or nine, now you’re going to be looking back like Joe Smith. He would never ever get that money back when he turned down that $90 million from Golden State. Y’all got to start looking at these people man. Sprewell, he turned down $21 million. I think he’s still holding out!"
hahaha
hahaha
TheFifthMookie
Bench
Seems to me that people get too up in arms when players say the exact same things that sportswriters and columnists say. If Gil wants to talk like Stephen A, so what? I ignore Stephen A, I can just as easily ignore Gil if I don't like it.
Oddly, I find the fact that Gilbert talks like this to be fun and interesting. If he was cracking on his teammates or coach like Starbury that would be different, but odds are his comments here aren't going to interfere with his team, and instead provides some kind of information about Gilbert's personality.
I think its cool when athletes aren't that blank slate, saying just the cliche things "One game at a time", "We should step up our defense". Saying "Iggy should take the 12 mil" is much much more exciting. Next time Gilbert and Iggy square off, you know there's a point of discussion.
Good times.
Oddly, I find the fact that Gilbert talks like this to be fun and interesting. If he was cracking on his teammates or coach like Starbury that would be different, but odds are his comments here aren't going to interfere with his team, and instead provides some kind of information about Gilbert's personality.
I think its cool when athletes aren't that blank slate, saying just the cliche things "One game at a time", "We should step up our defense". Saying "Iggy should take the 12 mil" is much much more exciting. Next time Gilbert and Iggy square off, you know there's a point of discussion.
Good times.
Sometimes he does seem a little too full of himself. But I find things like these rather entertaining. What I don't like about Arenas is his whole must take revenge on everybody who underestimates me thing. Like talking about going back to college to score on duke because he got cut from the national team and what not.
I kind of disagree.
I think some guys might get upset about having someone like Arenas talking about their contract situation like that. Guys like Kobe or ...... yeah, pretty much just Kobe.
But I don't think this is anything that he wouldn't say to their face. I think that he makes a very valid point, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear Arenas and Iguodala mic'd up during the All-Star Game, having a very similar conversation. I don't think this something that has the potential to cause a rift between Arenas and Iguodala, or that would keep them from playing well together if they had to.
I'm personally tired of the "Politically Correct", white-washed interviews that we have to listen to everyday. I don't dislike Arenas like a lot of other people do (although he has crossed the line in the past, and probably will in the future). I enjoy it when someone is willing to express themselves honestly, without the intention of forcing a trade or throwing someone under the bus. I think Arenas is just talking about what's going on around the League from a fan's standpoint, and that's why his blog gets read by so many people.
He is an attention hog, and he does love the limelight. But that doesn't mean that he can't be entertaining. He might be annoying to some, but I don't think his comments about other players in the League are inappropriate.
I too prefer when athletes speak frankly, but I also prefer when athletes are at least somewhat in reality, which is basically the opposite of Gilbert Arenas.
Athletes who "keep it real," I kind of like. Athletes who talk out of their *** like Arenas, not so much.
Geoff
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Actually, I just went to read the part of the blog that everyone was talking about (first time I'm reading his stuff)...and he made some pretty good points. It's more than just the funny and wit.
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Let’s Talk Contracts
I know a lot of people, you know, you hear about the Bulls team and why they’re losing because of their players entering free agency … You know, I want to say something to some of the young players out there in this game today. Especially somebody like Luol Deng who turned down that big contract. You don’t turn down $12 million. Period. That’s me, personally. I learned when I did my deal: Don’t look at other people’s money when you do your deal. Unfortunately, that’s what this league is about. They see a player that they think they’re better than, and then try to jump over them.
So now, Luol, you’re over here in a contract year and you’re not doing so well as a team. You get paid as a team. Now you’re going to be a free agent, and if you keep this up, that $12 million might not be on the table. So he turned down $12 million, Okafor said he wants Dwight Howard’s money … I mean, you ain’t Dwight Howard. It’s like them two had a discussion together about turning down the $12 million. Then Iguodala turned down $12 million … What is going on in the NBA? Iggy, you’re from Arizona, baby. You don’t turn down that much money. I don’t know who your agent is, but Agent Zero says you don’t turn down that $12 million.
I just don’t understand it. Then Varejao, he asked for $60 million and ends up with three years for $17 million. You could have got that contract last summer! You done missed 20 games of the season getting paid the same money you could have got last summer. For the deal you just signed, you could have got that this summer from the Cleveland Cavaliers without losing no basketball time. By the time you’re playing again and are ready back in your form, I’m going to be playing again! It’s a damn shame.
If I was they parents … Whooo! They would get some nice little butt whippings. Not trying to be funny here, but what’s the difference between 12 and 13 or 14? I mean, I know they’re all looking for max deals … but it’s like Charles Barkley says, max players put people in them seats. If you’re not putting people in them seats, you are not a max player.
If you average 15-16 points, you’re not a max player. It ain’t just about scoring, but I know Okafor is asking for Dwight’s money, but he’s doing what Dwight does. If you did what Dwight does, then that’s an argument, but you don’t. So don’t ask for Dwight money, $12,000,000 is what you get.
Same thing with Luol. I love the way Luol plays, but right now if you’re not better than Tayshaun and Carmelo and the best threes out there, if you aren’t valuable to your team like that … I mean he’s valuable to the Bulls, but not in the ways that those guys are. So, $12,000,000 is what you got.
Same thing with Iguodala. I know after A.I. left, you were supposed to be that No. 1 guy, but, the way he plays the game, he doesn’t have that. He’s not that type of player. He’s a second guy. An assistant coach told me a great story about him. When he was in Arizona, he said he was like 9-for-11 from the field and he apologized to the team for shooting 11 shots. From that day on, I just called him Scottie Pippen. He’s a Scottie Pippen type of player. A great, overall player. He’s your glue player. You need a superstar and then you need him. So $12 million is good for you. Nothing more and nothing less. Be happy with the $12 million.
With me, everybody was like “Oh, they overpaid!” And then two years later it was like, “Oh, they underpaid!” No! At the time, that’s what they offered me and that’s what I took. So if I become a four or five-time All-Star after that, hey, I wasn’t underpaid. At the time, that’s what I was worth. I might have increased my value since then, but at the time, that’s what I was worth.
At this time, $12 million is what they’re all worth. Nothing more and nothing less.
Same thing with Ben Wallace when he got paid his $60 million through four years. At that time, at that moment, that summer, he was worth that. I’m not saying that’s what he’s worth now, but at the time he signed, that’s what he was worth.
This is where when keeping it real goes wrong. Sometimes holding out is for the good, sometimes it backfires which is happening now to some players. This year has been the weirdest year I’ve ever seen with Matt Barnes signing a one-year deal, with Pietrus – who did well – signing a one-year deal and then I don’t know if you all even know this, when Jameer Nelson went at Devin Harris and said, “I should be getting paid like Devin Harris, what does he do?” At the end of the day, Devin Harris got paid what Dallas wanted to give him. That’s not Devin Harris’ fault. Don’t blame Devin Harris.
That’s what players don’t understand. You’re sitting there worrying about what somebody else is getting and you end up not seeing what’s in front of you and you’re going to be mad at the end of the day.
What’s the difference between 12 and 13 or 14? I know it’s $1 million, that’s a lot of money, but if you’re sitting there asking for 13-14 and they offer you 12 and you say, “No” then next summer you get offered, 10 or nine, now you’re going to be looking back like Joe Smith. He would never ever get that money back when he turned down that $90 million from Golden State. Y’all got to start looking at these people man. Sprewell, he turned down $21 million. I think he’s still holding out!
People don’t realize, these people do exist.
Samaki Walker – I played with Samaki. He told me the story. He turned down the money in Dallas because he was looking at all these other people getting paid. There’s all these other people getting max deals and he’s thinking, “Man, I was killing for Dallas so I wanted to hold out and then I end up signing a $3 million deal, got traded to the Lakers where I’m sitting behind Shaq, from there I came over here as a free agent.” He never made that money back. He ended up losing $40-some million.
You never know what’s going to happen. Nothing is guaranteed. I’m talking to three players that are trying to get $12 million and I gave you three examples of players who lost a total of almost $200 million. One lost $90 million and he ended up signing a $20-something million deal – Joe Smith. Samaki lost $40-something million and ended up signing a total of $8 million and Sprewell turned down $21 million.
That’s what I’m saying, people be looking at other peoples’ money. You’re looking at other peoples’ things and you’re trying to do your contract off of their contract. People are put in different situations. You don’t know what their situation is. When I signed my deal, I was happy to sign my deal. I wasn’t looking around to see who was getting paid, I didn’t care because I knew they shouldn’t be caring about mine.
The person who taught me that lesson was Jay-Z in one of his songs, “Where is the Love?” It’s something funny like, “I don’t (bleep) what you eat” or “What you eat don’t make me (bleep).” That’s basically the same thing I think.
It ain’t about just Iggy, Deng and Emeka, it’s about everyone. It’s about all young players out there who are going into negotiating and who are be going to do it in the future. If somebody offers you $12 million and you think you’re worth more than that, somebody should punch you in your face if you turn down that money. What if you get hurt and you can’t play basketball again? You just lost $60 million. You just threw away a great lottery ticket. That’s what people don’t understand.
TheFifthMookie
Bench
outside of some of the guys he talks about in that blog getting their feelings hurt, I don't see what the issue with this blog is. What Gil says in there rings true to me.
kennadog
Dog On It!
Personally I like honesty, too. I also like people that know when to shut up. I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe in self-censorship. Just because it's "real" doesn't mean people should blurt out every little thought in their brains. Good judgement and restraint have their place, as well, although clearly under-valued these days.
Lamar_Odom
Bench
Can you please elaborate?
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