I have respect for Gilbert, but the day that the league ripped us off was the day I stopped tolerating david stern. If we had been allowed to keep Arenas this would have been a totally different team. Just another chapter in the history of the unluckiest and worst managed team in basketball.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Dec 20 2006, 10:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>How come whenever anyone discusses Gilbert Arenas...people always talk about how he's come from nothing and had a lot of hardship and roadblocks...etc... Most NBA players have come from absolute sh*t and faught hard to be where they are...a lot of them didn't have fathers or family and a lot of them were lied to going through the draft...etc...It's always seemed like Gilbert Arenas wants people to feel sorry for him.</div>I've never got that impression about him whatsoever. I've heard people say stuff about those matters, but I've never felt he wanted people to know how hard his life was, etc.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Dec 20 2006, 07:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>How come whenever anyone discusses Gilbert Arenas...people always talk about how he's come from nothing and had a lot of hardship and roadblocks...etc... Most NBA players have come from absolute sh*t and faught hard to be where they are...a lot of them didn't have fathers or family and a lot of them were lied to going through the draft...etc...It's always seemed like Gilbert Arenas wants people to feel sorry for him.</div>Because it's not so much where he came from, it's how he came into the league. He was always looking to get revenge on everyone who doubted him, he wasn't all that good as a young kid, it's a rare thing to find an all star who was told he would never make varsity. It also helps that his story has been told on "The Run" a few times.
