Rick Raw: Gilbert Arenas Pleads Guilty to Gun Charges– Another Mindless Thug Infecting Professional Sports

By Rick Grant Commentary rickgrant01@comcast.net

In the past, my utter disgust at the behavior of professional athletes has led me to write scathing commentary and personally boycott pro sports all together. Now, another million dollar basketball player, the Wizards guard, Gilbert Arenas has committed a string of felonies so egregious and stupid it defies common sense.

In 2003, Arenas (now 28) signed a $111 million contract to play professional basketball for the Wizards. So what does this golden boy do? He goes out and buys a fist full of guns and doesn’t bother to get permits to carry them. And then, as if he was a complete moron, he brought four guns into his team’s locker room.

What follows is an account of the incident that got Arenas arrested. Remember, these are grown men making millions of dollars playing professional sports acting like punks from the hood. Why?

Why indeed. It’s what happens when team owners throw truck loads of money at the unworthy.
The truth is: They are lowlife scum from the ghetto who just happen to have a talent to play basketball better than most of their peers. They cheated their way through college to get signed in the NBA.

These NBA millionaires come from the thug mentality of the hip-hop culture that feeds a billion dollar rap industry. This whole scene encourages violence, abuse of women, and criminal behavior. They call themselves the N word, and it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The events leading up to Arenas being charged with four felonies are incredibly juvenile. It’s a classic case of two fools with guns acting like street corner drug dealers. The headline could read: Basketball Thugs Brandish Guns to Prove Their Manhood!"

On Dec.19 the team (Wizards) flew on a chartered flight to the Washington area from Phoenix. Arena and a teammate, Jarvis Crittenton got into an argument over a card game.
The argument escalated to an exchange of threats involving guns. At the Verizon Center, Arenas brought four unregistered hand guns into the locker room. He placed the guns on the bench to intimidate Crittenton, who took one of the guns and threw it across the locker room. The two bozos exchanged threats which ended the locker room incident.

Wizards’ management heard about the guns and called the U.S.Attorney. The police were dispatched to Arenas’ home where they confiscated his guns. Arenas was indicted and charged with four felonies for owning unregistered firearms.

Finally, the U.S. Attorney offered Arenas a plea deal to plead guilty to one felony count, which he accepted. It’s up to judge Robert E. Morin’s discretion as to what sentence Arenas receives, but he’ll likely serve time–maybe six months. Since Arenas arrest, he was suspended from the NBA indefinitely. Arenas remains free on bail until he is sentenced on March 26, 2010. What a cretin punk.

This entire incident reads like a twisted grade B movie. These guys may be great basketball players and make obscene amounts of money, but they act like dumb-assses. Clearly, a high IQ is not a prerequisite to playing professional basketball.

I ask: What the hell was Arenas thinking and why did he bring four guns into the Verizon Center locker room? Did he want to be considered a badass? Probably. Was it an elaborate prank? Not likely.

With the gun culture out of control in the ghettos, Arenas’ behavior was unconscionable. It’s not the message community leaders, who are trying to stop the senseless murders in the projects, want to encourage. Arenas’ loutish behavior only verifies my criticism of the pervasive amorality in professional sports.

The rogues gallery of thugs in professional sports is long and shameful. Examples abound: Michael Vick’s sadistic cruelty to dogs in his dog fighting conspiracy. Tiger Woods’ hypocrisy for claiming to be a devoted family man, while he’s banging every VIP whore in Vegas. Kobe Bryant’s expensive lawyer getting him out of a rape charge. It goes on and on.

And just when I’ve had enough of these overpaid punks, the bloated steroid goons in pro baseball finally came clean. Mark McGwire’s tearful confession made me sick. What a cur. Yeah, he’s a sorry–a sorry excuse for a human being.

It’s time to put a stop to these overpaid criminals in professional sports. If everyone stops buying tickets to the games and refuse to watch the pro-sports on televison, the big money will dry up and players will make a reasonable wage for their craft. Ha! This is as likely as Lindsey Lohan will stop whoring and drugging herself stupid.

Yes, I know, a unilateral boycott is not going to happen. My one voice will be drowned out by the crazed sports fans who could care less if these thugs brandish weapons or abuse and hang dogs. The hysteria revolving around sports drowns out any concern about the behavior of the athletes.
Morality is lost in the cheap thrills fans get from watching pro-sports. If the fans don’t care about the morality of the athletes, then why should they care about their misbehavior. It’s something to ponder as you are chugging beers and cheering on the home team.