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Richard Jefferson: So 6 a.m. there's 40 federal agents at your house. Was there a helicopter, a batter ram? Gilbert Arenas: No the batter ram. It took them too long to get up the stairs, so I figured they set it… Jefferson: Over a speaker, like ‘we have you surrounded’. Arenas: Surrounded. Come outside with your hands up. Jefferson: I'm fascinated by this. Arenas: I just thought they came and got me. Jefferson: 6:00 AM they say, "We have you surrounded. Come outside." Gilbert Arenas: I knew they didn't have me surrounded though cuz the house is kind of big. So, you know what I mean? Like, I know they didn't get in the backyard, but I understood what they were saying. Jefferson: So, after that, they said, "You have you surrounded." They told you to come outside. Did you know why you were getting arrested? Arenas: No. This wasn't like we're telling people that we brought guns to an arena. This was completely different. Like even when I'm running down the stairs after you guys seen me like I'm running. Hey, I still didn't know why I was arrested. I just be honest. I wasn't shocked. (Laughs) When I got out and I was looking online, I was like, "Oh my god, I thought it was the…’.
Gilbert Arenas: Manu Ginobili, did he actually fit the Spurs program right or was Pop that brilliant to understand what he had and just let him play? And these guys are fit around your style because, you know, we're all smart enough to do it because Ginobili from Argentina, he is like the number one option. So, his style fits how he played: ISO player, let's get it, pick and roll, I'm going downhill. There was no Tim Duncan he passed the ball to. There was none of that. Think about his style of play. Flashy, up and down, speed, energetic, electric. That was his style of basketball. That wasn't the Spurs style of basketball. Those shooting guards and three men, you sit your ass in the corner, you pump, fake, one, dribble shot, right? Pass and swing shot. Ginobili was a wild card, but they recognized it. Let him do him. And you have to be a smart coach to understand when you have a guy like that on your team to utilize him. And then you get your Kawhi Leonard. I mean Kawhi was the Spurs player, right? That's your typical Spurs player. Derrick White, that's the Spurs motto, right? But sometimes, hey, we need a little bit of different here.
Gilbert Arenas: I naturally just have this weird energy where I can just go all day. So, Chris Mullin is the one who honed it in. When I was my first couple years at Golden State, when I found out what Kobe did, I just stayed in. I was sleeping in the gym. I just stayed there. And then Chris Mullin had to teach me how to like confined it. Like going 70% for five hours is… that's stupid. Go a 110 for 40 minutes at a time. Do it. Go home, rest three hours, four hours, come back, go home, rest, then come back. Instead of just sitting here and saying you worked out for seven hours because it has to translate. And I didn't understand what he was talking about. And he said, "Yeah, you can shoot a thousand shots practice style. What about the game style?"
Gilbert Arenas: So when Luke Walton was basically telling about Kobe Bryant’s workouts, I had to see it for myself. So, we were in town and he said, "Yeah, Kobe comes at 3:00 AM.” I remember saying that. So, I took a cab over there and sat in the stands, right? Got there at 2:30 AM, sat in the stands, right? And then sure enough comes walking in and it's like, damn, it's the way he was working out. Imagine a Game Seven, a million dollars on the line, point game, going against each other. That's how it looked against him and his trainer.
Richard Jefferson: What is a bigger in your ear moment? Is it Lance Stevenson blowing in LeBron's ear or LeBron whispering sweet nothings to you at the free throw line before you brick those free throws and lost the playoff game? LeBron tapped you and said, "If you miss this, you're going to lose." And you did. Gilbert Arenas: I mean, you should give credit to him. That's like psychic stuff.
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Gilbert Arenas: The G League is going to be in trouble. Why would an NBA prospect go to the G League when they can go to college? G League is paying me 49,000. College is paying me a million, million and a half, 500,000. So, if I got eligibility, I'm going to search for it and I'm going to try to get it instead of playing the G League for $49,000.
Gilbert Arenas: Every player, if you know you're going to be done within two years, you should start cutting your losses to try to get back to as close as normal as possible, because if you don't have a job right after that, it's all negative income. When we were talking about hard bills, you're talking about light, cars, insurance, baby mamas, right? Paying your folks, paying their house, paying their cars, right? So some of y'all can leave and your hard bills 100,000, 150, 200, 300, hard bills. You remember like when you're playing in the NBA you're collecting bills. Anthony Davis, the house he just sold, $39 million. What you think that water bill is? That light bill, the grass bill, right? He's spending $45,000 probably a month just to upkeep it. Just that house, not the cars in that house, not family, friends, not other houses. So it's the hard bills that get us at the end. And it normally takes an athlete two years to adjust to his new life, because the embarrassment of selling sh*t cuz you don't want people to think you're broke. So you hold on to sh*t that you don't supposed to and going broke. And that happens a lot.
Given the uncertainty that comes with being dangled in trade rumors, the locker room has to be a very emotional environment. But some players are using this opportunity to pull off some jokes at the expense of their teammates, if Gilbert Arenas' story is to be believed. “You wanted to mess with somebody? All you had to say is [the SportsCenter theme]. Breaking news. What happened. Who? Your a** been traded bro,” Arenas recalled in the latest episode of his podcast. “Every locker room got at least one dude walking around like ‘yo bro, you got traded’ every 10 minutes.”
According to former NBA All-Star guard Gilbert Arenas, this was not always the case, as press people during the 80s and 90s did not engage in negative talk about players or speak ill of them. Arenas cited Michael Jordan‘s performance in the Barcelona Olympics as an example. “There was no negativity in the early 80s, 90s. The game was glorified and pushed positive. They didn’t bash Magic/Bird/Kareem for losing in finals…. Imagine USA ’92 team today, and looking at Michael Jordan box scores are talked about today from how he performed. In ’92, nobody knows MJ was struggling in Olympics and shooting that bad against guys who were wearing AAU uniforms… We didn’t hear struggling,”
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Jeff Goodman: USC guard Alijah Arenas is likely to make his college debut Wednesday against Northwestern at home, source told @TheFieldOf68. Arenas, a heralded recruit and the son of former NBA guard Gilbert Arenas, has been out all season after suffering a torn meniscus in July. The 6-foot-6 Arenas is a big-time talent who, like his father, can really score.
Gilbert Arenas: “The media who watched and covered MJ are still the most prominent voices today, and they push their love for him like it’s the only version of greatness. We never heard how many times Magic or Kareem lost in the Finals—only the positives were shared. But now, any star who might be the ‘next MJ’ gets picked apart. Only their flaws are highlighted.”
Former NBA star Matt Barnes is pushing back on rumors that claimed he was scammed by an AI model. A rumor circulating around the internet got fresh air from another former NBAer, Gilbert Arenas, who addressed the gossip on his own podcast. Apparently, as the internet says, Barnes fell victim to a catfish who managed to walk off with $61,000 of his money. 'I've sat back and watched the internet lie about me the whole year,' Barnes said in a video posted to his Instagram account. 'The whole year -- lies from me being gay, to me talking abortion to me telling some girl not to do a reality show.' 'I get back from Dubai ... I see all of a sudden I'm suing an A.I. model, or I got played by an A.I. model.' 'You guys believe I got played by an A.I. model, and I'm suing 'em? Where the f*** did you guys get this from?!'