I've heard this a thousand times... Gil's "woah is me" story about this Kings is old. Gilbert is one of my favorite players and has great character and personality. But I'm so tired of hearing the whole "The Kings and everyone else passed on me, and now look at me..." story.
Teams passed on him when he was in HS, even the hometown team (UCLA).
The whole chip on my shoulder is a boring story. Arenas is a undersized shoot first guard with a "quirky" personality, and that's why teams passed on him, us included. We had no need for him when we had Bobby and Doug on the team and both players played defense. He has said that the Kings questioned his shooting, but still picked the non-shooting Wallace ("a monkey could shoot better" said Arenas in Slam Magazine) but Wallace was ideally a better fit for us at the time. He should be thanking us for passing on him, and allowing him to be drafted by the Warriors. His career could've gone very differently under a more experienced coach.
Gilbert's beef with the Olympic coaching staff probably stemmed partly from his Arizona days, when they lost the Championship game to Duke. If I remember correctly, Arenas was playing hurt, and Duke's backcourt was playing very physical defense. Can’t feel too good to lose out again, because of an annoying injury.
McMillan saw Gilbert’s whining for what it was and shut his butt up and left him blaming his coach for his own big mouth.