Kwame Almost Ready to Strike Arenas

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With Kwame Brown now out of the nation's capital, he's sharing his side of the story as to why he suspended for the playoffs.

Brown told The Washington Post that he wasn't ill after Game 3 of the Wizards' series with the Bulls, as the team reported, but was so upset with guard Gilbert Arenas, he feared he would have attacked the guard.

"The thing is, the whole thing stems from Gilbert telling them not to put me in the game. I didn't come to practice because I was going to be a distraction. I was going to slap the [expletive] out of him," Brown told the paper. "I'll admit it, what I did was wrong -- not showing up was wrong -- but I ain't saying what I would've done if I showed up would've been right. Being that I didn't show up I didn't put my hands on nobody. How a teammate, a supposed friend, would go to a coach and tell him don't put me in a game, I would've done something seriously wrong to him."

When told of Brown's accusation, Arenas denied his former teammate's recollection.

"That's the coach's decision. I'm not the coach. I'm not the GM," Arenas told the paper. "If he feels I have that much pull that I could pull him in and out of the game, then I guess he would blame me. If that's his excuse for missing practices -- to blame me -- then I'm strong enough to take the responsibility. But I never told Coach to put him out the game."

Coach Eddie Jordan said that Arenas had no input into the decision to not play Brown.

"That's not true," he told The Post when informed of Brown's comments. "I didn't make my decision based on what [Brown] thought Gilbert said, and I never heard Gilbert say that.

"The fact that he didn't play is because somebody else was playing better, and he wasn't playing as well. I can't recall every minute, every decision I made in Game 3, but certainly, I made my decision based on how the game was going and how players were playing. Not because of what somebody told me."

Brown also believes his problems with Arenas brewed off the court. At one point during the season, Brown entertained the thought of firing his agent Arn Tellum and hiring Arenas' agent Dan Fegan. But when Brown decided to stick with Tellum, Brown said Fegan later told Arenas to stop passing Brown the ball so that his statistics wouldn't look good entering the free agent market.

"How silly does that sound?" Arenas told the paper. "I'm not going to give him the ball because he didn't want to go with my agent?"

After signing a three-year, $25 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers in the offseason, Brown is eyeing Dec. 26 when he returns to Washington.

"It's going to be the same. I'm going to get booed.... And I'm going to whup their [butts]," he told the paper.</div>

Here's the source:
http://http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2178688

 

This is a very interesting article. I don't know which side of the argument to believe. Either way I think Brown should have shown up to practice even if you do hate Arenas, you are a grown man and should be able to restrain yourself and keep yourself from attacking another teammate. He should have gone to the practice pulled Arenas aside and had a talk with him about why he was mad at him. Regardless of whether Arenas asked for Kwame to be benched, Kwame should simply just work harder and play harder and he will get playing time no matter if anyone tells his coach to bench him.

 

^^ Agreed, it's pathetic when you can't show self-control and behave like an adult.

 

Sure, he should have turned up and kept his cool, but it was at a point in his career where nothing was going right for him and everything he ever did turned out to be a failure. He should have turned up, but thats all in the past now. He's about to start his real career(as I like to say) now. Washington is over and LA is about to begin. Stop complaining, he said he's going to turn things around, so just sit back and give him a chance.

 

Kwame is just being an idiot, really, reading the whole article, I don't know how I can even support him at all. He's saying Arenas wasn't giving him the ball because he left Arenas' agent? Then Arenas the guy who went to his house, pleaded for him to not get suspended, and told people not to boo him was the one who got him pulled out of the game?

Kwame really has some interior problems he needs to solve with himself, he should be a literature writer with the way he comes up with these conspiracy theories.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Kwame really has some interior problems he needs to solve with himself, he should be a literature writer with the way he comes up with these conspiracy theories.</div>



Kwame Brown has really got some growing up to do. Making excuses up to get mad at someone whos just doing there job is immature, especcialy if its a teamate. He should have been man enough to talk this over with his teamate and keep things going, this situation is proof that Kwame like og15 said is just "an idiot"

 

Brown never takes responsibility for his actions. When he was not successful during the Jordan days it was because ? Jordan and Collins intimidated him, and made him feel bad? now that he was not successful in the post Jordan days he blames Arenas, and Arenas? agent for him not being successful?

 

All I know is, his playing better be doing al the talking... Because if he doesn't show up and starts to play like a btch, than man!!!!! I don't know, I think the season is just going start out like last year...

 

This thread is just looking at the past again. Why don't we leave it where it is instead of bringing it up again? Just leave it as it is, we all agree Kwame acted bad before and was treated bad before. Let's just look forward to his career in LA. Hopefully he can make it a successful one.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5093001143.html

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Michael Wilbon: I'm glad you brought up Kwame Brown, since he popped off in The Post Sunday to Michael Lee. Kwame Brown's problem isn't primarily a problem of technique.

Kwame Brown is a jerk. He behaves like a bum toward his teammates. He's irresponsible. And he's a liar. He called Gilbert Arenas last night to say he was misquotes. Kwame is a liar and a bum. Gilbert Arenas, who is a stand-up kid, went to Kwame's house after Kwame had been suspended for quitting on his team, and picked him up and brought him to practice...Went TO KWAME'S HOUSE...Called Kwame all the time to check on him,

Kwame Brown is a bum, and I can't say it any other way. And guys who aren't accountable, are lazy, and know it all while talking trash about what they're GOING to do never amount to anything in any area where competition is ongoing.

Glad I got that off my chest.</div>

Kwame just put himself in the hated section for Wizards fans. The sad thing is that many people were rooting for him, including me. Kwame's whole conspiracy thing about him not getting the ball, and Gil asking the coach to take him out still puzzles me. Kwame got the same shots per minute last season as he did in 03-04, he just shot a lower percentage and had more turnovers.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "WizKev":</div><div class="quote_post">Late in the season when I was working on my defense article, Gil spent 5 minutes telling me how great Kwame was playing in practice and that if he could keep it up, he'd be like a secret weapon in the playoffs.</div>

Last season, all his teammates, and even the coaches were saying he should shoot more. Etan was saying he had a very good jumper, and Arenas said he wanted him to start taking mid-range jumpers because he makes them all in practice. Not in drills, but in scrimmages, and while contested. Kwame really needs to start taking responsiblity.

 

Kwame just doesn't learn. He thinks he left all that drama but it'ls gonna be worse in LA. Kobe is not an improvement from Jordan or Arenas.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">Kwame recently made these statements, instead of keeping it in the past and moving on as you suggested.

This writer put out the bait and got the controversial bite he wanted from Kwame Brown. It just paints Kwame Brown in a negative light once again. It shows him as a person who doesn't take responsibility, is immature, and has not let go of the past. He could have simply ended his reply with "I was wrong." and not get into the details of wanting to slap Arenas, and then go on to ramble about his conspiracy theory. He should have deflected the comment and said he's looking forward to moving on and letting his play on the court speak for him.

I just hope this doesn't become a distraction heading into training camp.</div>

I understand he recently made the comments but they are still talking about his past, instead of his future.

 

Okay? He is the one that decided to do the interview, no one forced him, so he's still talking about his past, and not the future. Like Shape said, he should've just said I was wrong, and he's moving on, instead he elaborated on the whole thing, and told a whole story.