Gilbert Arenas is one of the most notorious players to play in the NBA, his antics are probably more famous to this generation than his excellence in basketball
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After playing two years with the Arizona Wildcats and making it to the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team in first and First-team All-Pac-10 in the next, the 6’4 point guard would enter the 2001 NBA Draft after leading Arizona to the national championship game, where they lost to the Blue Devils, 82–72.
The future 3x All-Star could just go as high as the 31st pick in the second round for the Golden State Warriors, but would soon become one of the best scorers in the league. Agent Zero believes he alongside Allen Iverson has changed how the point guards play the game, and there are more hybrid guards in the league since their dominance as the team’s leading scorers.
Not only that, but he could have been one of the best guards in the NBA ever, if he stayed on the trajectory he was in, in the first 6 years of his career. But he couldn’t after one of the craziest locker room incidents that could have ended with an NBA getting shot or killed.
When Gilbert Arenas brought guns into the locker room and ruined two careers for good
After averaging well over 27 points from 2004-07 and having two injury-plagued seasons after that, Arenas drifted off from rhythm and had played just 32 games in the regular season averaging 22.6 points a game when an incident between him and his teammate Javaris Crittenton wrapped the season and eventually the career for both the players.
Have a read at one of the most mind-boggling stories in NBA in this thread of Tweets which richly explains the incident that took place just because of a card game.
