Highs & Lows

Someone said they were going to shoot me. So since I’m one of those guys who says, ‘I want to see this happen. I want to see you actually shoot me,’ that’s where that came from,” says Arenas, declining to mention that someone by name. “I brought the four guns in and said (in a note), ‘Pick 1, so the day you want to shoot me let me know, I’ll be ready to get shot.’

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Gilbert Arenas in USA Today with his account of the infamous 2009 locker room gun incident involving then Wizards teammate Javaris Crittenton. Apparently the incident escalated to guns when Gilbert called Crittenton’s bluff and went all Reggie Hammond in Another 48 Hours.

But movies are movies:Arenas is a back up point guard in Memphis now and Javaris Crittenton is a murder suspect. It’s hard to believe, but things could have turned out even worse.