<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Gilbert Arenas is warming up to the NBA's new synthetic basketball. Well, kind of. As with just about anything having to do with the mercurial Arenas, his response to playing with the new ball is complicated. "The ball doesn't slip out of my hand as easy, so it's easy for grip and guiding," said Arenas, who claimed to hate the ball when it debuted in the preseason. "It's a shooter's ball. If you get it on the rim, it's going to go in, just like Vince Carter's shot the other night." However, Arenas did say the ball can be a problem once it gets sweat on it. At that point, he and other players have asked the referees to replace it with a dry one. He also thinks the new balls are wildly inconsistent. "If you go into a rack before a game and touch them all, they'll all be different," Arenas said. "None of them are the same, so you never really know what that ball is going to be like."</div> Link
