The Washington Times<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Gilbert Arenas culled from Latrell Sprewell's tired material in saying his decision to opt out of his contract with the Wizards after next season is based on securing the financial future of his two children. To which can be said: Give me and all the other workaday lugs a break. Earth to Arenas: With your $64 million contract, you already are in a position to give your children advantages that you never had. It turned out fairly well for you. It gave you a deep hunger. The wealth of the Hiltons produced the opposite effect on Paris.</div>Link
That's what I've been saying all along. Can someone give me a price check on these items?Pampers are like 4 or 5 bucks?Gerber food jars: 1 dollar each?A few extra million dollars won't make the child's development any better, but then again, I understand since it's business.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ming637 @ Jun 15 2007, 07:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Pampers are like 4 or 5 bucks?</div>Not when they're made out of mothafuckin diamonds!
Knowing Arenas I think he was more kidding when he said that stuff about his kids.That writer of that article is an ass. He went on to even call out Arenas and call him a wimp.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Justice @ Jun 15 2007, 08:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Not when they're made out of mothafuckin diamonds!</div>Doesn't matter, you know his bankrooooooooll, gotta lot of zerooooos. ....Teddy Pain.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Amare320 @ Jun 16 2007, 01:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Mabye he's secretly paying for Latrell Spreewells kids.. yes ...........or not.... grow up arenas.</div>What's "growing up" have to do with anything? He just said that was a business decision not a decision he made out of an 8-ball.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ming637 @ Jun 16 2007, 01:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What's "growing up" have to do with anything? He just said that was a business decision not a decision he made out of an 8-ball.</div>64 Million isn't enough for him to support his children? I think by Arenas refering to himself needing a extreme amount of money to just be able to support his family is stupid, by growing up he wouldn't make such silly ''business decisions'' with a poor excuse attached to it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Amare320 @ Jun 16 2007, 03:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>64 Million isn't enough for him to support his children? I think by Arenas refering to himself needing a extreme amount of money to just be able to support his family is stupid, by growing up he wouldn't make such silly ''business decisions'' with a poor excuse attached to it.</div>sh*t, not all of it is going to his infants. The dude does a lot for charity, donates a 100 bucks to a different school for every point he scores in every game of the season. The money comes out of his own pocket, so he might want to donate more? The dude's a lil whack, he throws himself a million dollar party, I don't know.I'm on your side, I don't think he needs the extra money, but don't say he needs to "grow up" because he's definitely a superstar, not just a random all-star.
Amazing he wrote that article without giving any quotes as to what he was talking about.I don't think there is anything wrong with saying he wants to secure his families future...and their families..and their families. What's wrong with saying that? Would you rather him say Yeah yo I need the money because I want a few more cars and some bling?This is very irresponsible of the writer to write crap like this, and this should have never a been printed.If he can opt out and get a longer deal worth more money..why wouldn't he? Please...Sprewell's comments were dumb because he was getting more than he deserved...and then he turned it down and got nothing...Gilbert Arenas is worth every penny of a max deal.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>I don't think there is anything wrong with saying he wants to secure his families future...and their families..and their families. What's wrong with saying that? Would you rather him say Yeah yo I need the money because I want a few more cars and some bling?</div>Probably because to most people, 1 million is simply enough to secure a families future. You watch what you say and don't say anything like that in this situation. I rather he say nothing and go about his business, then say I want more money to secure my families future. Because we know that's not the whole reason for wanting more money. He wants the added bonus of luxuries as well.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Combs @ Jun 16 2007, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Amazing he wrote that article without giving any quotes as to what he was talking about.I don't think there is anything wrong with saying he wants to secure his families future...and their families..and their families. What's wrong with saying that? Would you rather him say Yeah yo I need the money because I want a few more cars and some bling?This is very irresponsible of the writer to write crap like this, and this should have never a been printed.If he can opt out and get a longer deal worth more money..why wouldn't he? Please...Sprewell's comments were dumb because he was getting more than he deserved...and then he turned it down and got nothing...Gilbert Arenas is worth every penny of a max deal.</div>As I understand coming from Wizards fans, he was willing to take a paycut to make the team a contender, now he wants more again? Doesn't make sense to me. I kinda think he's a jackass, but that's just me.
This is nothing like what Sprewell said. Spre said he needed more than 3 years and 21 Million to feed his kids. Yes, feed them. Thats what made people laugh at him. Gilbert saying that having kids make him think long term more than he did before is about a newsworthy as traffic. Sure its not the ordinary everyday reaction (I need 50 more mil!) but in his world its about the same as a guy quitting smoking or finally getting his ticker checked because all of a sudden there is a lot more to live for.
from his blog last week...<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Opting Out is a Business Decision What is hard for anybody else to understand besides people in the NBA industry to understand that, on my contract, it?s basically the same thing that Ben Wallace did but without the trade and the same thing that Chauncey is doing. The NBA allows a 12.5 percent increase on what you make. So for any player who is making the max, all they do is extend. They get the extension and get the 12.5 percent increase on what they already make. Now, if you don?t make the max money but you become a max player during the time frame of your original contract, you have to opt out to get the max money. When I signed my original deal, I believed that I would become a max player so I had a player?s option. So, I make 11 and 12 million the next two years and then the extension would put me at 12.5, 13, 14 in the three years of the extension. The part that I got frustrated about the extension was that I have to play next year at that figure no matter what and then if I extend, all I?m getting is four years guaranteed. But, if I opt out after next year, I?ll have six years guaranteed because I?ll sign a whole new six year contract. So at the end of the day, it will be a six-year deal instead of a four-year deal and instead of starting at 12.5 or 13 million, I?ll be starting at 14 or 15 million and I?ll be a max player. This has nothing to do with me leaving or trying to look for other teams. I have to do it: 1. To get more years and 2. To increase my pay. It?s the same thing Chauncey was doing. Chauncey was getting paid four to five million dollars in his contract, and if he extends he?s only going to make 12.5 percent on that amount, which will put him at six million or so. But, if he opts out of that contract, he could possibly start at 10. It?s a little loophole that they might fix in five years. It was the same thing with Ben Wallace. Ben Wallace was like, ?Well, I?m only making three million and I?m worth max. Why am I going to extend? That?s pointless. Instead of being increased to four million, I can go out and get paid 14 million.? The extension only works with the players that are making max money already. Like if Antawn says, ?I?m signing an extension,? you say, ?OK,? because he makes 17 million. So he goes 18, 19, 20 in his three years. If Antawn says, ?I?m opting out to sign a new deal,? you say, ?You?re crazy,? because he?s already making 17 million. If a max player opts out of his deal there are only two reasons he could be doing it: 1. He?s leaving 2. He?s trying to sign another six-year deal. He don?t want three years. He wants another six. Meaning that that?s most likely going to be his last six. Like Vince Carter, he?s opting out because he wants to sign another six-year, max deal. He don?t want to sign a three-year extension. This becomes like football. You try to get the most years out of what you can do. This is going to be the last thing I do. I know my history and I don?t want to make the same mistake that Miami almost made about seven years ago with the Juwan Howard thing when Miami decided to sign Howard before they signed their own player, Alonzo. If the league would have let them sign Howard to the $100 million contract he was going to sign, they wasn?t going to be able to afford Alonzo. But if they would have signed Alonzo first and then signed Howard, they would have had them both. My situation is flip-flopped. I want to make sure that they get all the people they can get before I sign my deal because if I sign first and then eat up all the money, then we can?t get anybody. If I let them pick out who they?re going to pick, like get the draftees and sign the free agents, the money will still be there. Abe Pollin believed in me after Michael Jordan. He told me that I was the guy he wanted to build around after Jordan was gone. I?m a loyal player. I don?t have an agent. My counsel is myself. I just go through all the rules and read up on stuff. I just sit there and read stuff that happened in the past and why things didn?t work out and why things are the way they are.</div>I couldnt have said it better.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Justice @ Jun 21 2007, 02:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That explains why he is opting out. Now where does he explain why he is such a jackass?</div>Why is he a jackass? A clown is more like it. He just messes around.Liek I previously said. The writer to the article is very irresponsible in his journalism. He also did not provide a single quote to anything to back what he was saying up.It's like he said..ohhh Arenas is opting opt. OMG he wants MORE money? I only make ___ and I work 60 hours a week. And he's not happy with 64 million? Screw him I'm gonna write a mean article. I'd guess that is the reason the article does no longer appear when I click the link. I'd assume it was takin down and removed.Ib reality all he is doing is getting an extension for what is currently max dollar.
