Arenas the Opposite of NBA's Poor Image

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The Gilbert Arenas most NBA observers have known the last nine years did not store guns in the team locker room, or spread them out in a teammate's locker with a sign that read "Pick One,'' or do anything to give David Stern reason to suspend him, much less anything to cast him and his league in a bad light.



The Arenas most knew dunked off of a trampoline at the All-Star Game -- to be exact, in the All-Star Game, while in uniform, during a time-out, along with a bunch of Elvis impersonators at the 2007 game in Las Vegas.



"That's why he's Gilbert,'' TNT analyst Doug Collins said on the broadcast that night when that moment was replayed. "That's the beauty off his game, and that's why you also sometimes shake your head.''



Arenas' career has been filled with head-shaking moments, but the overwhelming majority of them -- up until his public comments, tweets and pregame finger-gun routine prompted Stern to punish him while law enforcement officials were still investigating last month's locker-room incident -- were ones that fans eagerly embraced.

 

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