![]() ![]() Even if it’s legal, it absolutely shouldn’t be. Plus, they basically already have control over life and death, so the fact that this wizard is just out and about holding both a wand and a pistol is beyond unfair, as no guy should have that much power. To begin with, wizards already have a major advantage over regular people because their knowledge of spells and other forms of devilry allows them to do pretty much whatever they want all the time-and certainly having a gun tips the scales even more in their favor. Never do guns factor into archetypical depictions of wizards, presumably because it’d look weird and unnatural for them to pack heat, as is clearly evidenced by this magical oddball here, whose gun-toting demeanor feels so jarring and wrong that you’d assume it must be in violation of some unspoken rule or warlock oath. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.For several hours now, the wizard has been waving his gun around and making “ pew pew pew! ” sounds, brazenly defying society’s widely agreed-upon understanding of wizards as spooky, bearded grandpas armed only with small wooden wands that are used for shooting magic spells and turning various objects into frogs. ![]() McGee has bounced around the NBA and signed with the Lakers this offseason. He is serving a 23-year sentence.Īrenas retired after the 2011-12 season and is now hosting an internet sports show for Complex. The locker room cleared out, and no shots were fired, but the incident made big news at the time.īoth players were suspended by Commissioner David Stern, and both also got probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor weapons charges.Ĭrittenton never played in the NBA again and, in an unrelated case, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2015 in Atlanta. “You say you’re going to shoot me? Fine, I’ll bring you the guns to do it.”Īs it turned out, Crittenton didn’t need one of Arenas’ guns - he pulled one of his own, cocked it and aimed at Arenas. “It was about me calling his bluff,” Arenas said. That’s what led Arenas, a few days later, to bring four guns into the Wizards’ locker room, he told The Action Network. “I said, ‘Man, I’ll bring you the guns to shoot me!’ ” Arenas recalled saying. “And then he says, ‘Well, I’ll just shoot you, then.’ Then we’ll find an extinguisher to help ya ass out,’ ” Arenas said. “I was like, ‘Javaris, I will burn your car, while you’re in it. “I scream, ‘Oh, s–t, I think he’s gonna choke himself with the seat belt,” Arenas said, referring to Crittenton.Īs Arenas recalled: “The plane lands and now Javaris says to JaVale, ‘So now you just gonna let me lose my money like that? You ain’t even gonna … give me a chance to get my money back? Aw, hell … this is the type of s–t that gets you f–ked up in the streets.’ ”Īrenas said, at that point, he jumped in to talk more smack. ![]() In his first extensive comments on the episode, Arenas told The Action Network this week that the shocking showdown grew out of a card-game dispute involving him, Crittenton and teammate JaVale McGee - but that, ultimately, it was about trash-talk and bluff-calling, not a gambling debt, as had been widely believed.Īccording to Arenas, the three had been playing a card game called booray - a cross between poker and spades - on a team flight.Ĭrittenton was losing big and steaming bigger.Īfter McGee won a hand, and a pile of Crittenton’s money, Arenas piled on with trash-talk. ![]() Ja Morant gun video prompts concern in sports worldįormer NBA star Gilbert Arenas has finally offered up some details into the infamous December 2009 gun incident in the Wizards’ locker room between himself and ex-teammate Javaris Crittenton. Zion Williamson: Dieting 'is hard' when you have moneyĮx-NBA star on why pros date the 'worst women' as Zion drama festersĮx-NBA All-Star who had 50-game gun suspension has advice for Ja Morant ![]()
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