15, 2010: Several witnesses agree that during an argument on a Dec. ‘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.’ That’s how.’ According to a D.C. I want to see you actually shoot me,’ that’s where that came from,’ says Arenas, declining to mention that someone by name. So since I’m one of those guys who says, ‘I want to see this happen. ‘Someone said they were going to shoot me. It was over a $1,100 pot he just lost.’ Arenas pauses and sighs when asked how the situation escalated to the point of guns. ‘So I jumped in, ‘Why you talking to your teammates like this? We family.’ That’s when (Crittenton) started coming at me, ‘(Expletive, racial slur), just because you got all money, this and this and this.’ That’s when we started going back and forth. You’ve got all my money,’ Arenas says Crittenton shouted at McGee. Arenas says he wasn’t involved in the actual bet. McGee didn’t immediately pay back Boykins as he won the money and an argument blossomed. Wizards guard Earl Boykins loaned McGee $200. This is what he says happened: Then-Wizards center JaVale McGee had beaten Crittenton out of $1,100 in a card game. Arenas, 30, had previously declined to go into great detail. ‘No one actually saw a gun in my hand at all. What Arenas says are misconceptions of what happened in that locker room still bother him. He was suspended for 50 games without pay for 2009-10 by NBA Commissioner David Stern. Arenas also had to perform 400 hours of community service and pay a $5,000 fine. 21, 2009, with then-Wizards teammate Javaris Crittenton. From USA Today: “Arenas spent 30 days in a halfway house after being convicted on gun charges stemming from a locker-room confrontation Dec. However, he did clarify what took place in the Wizards’ locker room on that fateful day that forever changed his life and the course of the Washington franchise. Gilbert Arenas has happily begun to write a new basketball chapter in Memphis, and he understandably doesn’t like to revisit the darker moments of his NBA career.
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