Does Gilbert Arenas entertainment value make up for the fact that hes always injured?
Wizznutzz.com: Gilbert is the game’s biggest character. He’s a shameless scene stealer, a clown, a Mad Hatter, and a true eccentric. He is the NBA’s comic relief for the new media age. He has taken his antics online, to blogs, YouTube, MySpace and made himself a national personality almost over night. The fans love it. We have lived through a lot of losing over the past few decades. We don’t need a perennial powerhouse. We just want a winning season and a few good laughs along the way. And the team’s ownership knows this. When they gave Gilbert the max contract last year, trust me, it wasn’t just for his basketball services. Many of those millions were earmarked for pork. Personality pork: the halftime trampolines, the impromptu paintball battles, the talcum donuts, the dogs on treadmills. The only problem is, people don’t find the joke so funny when the guy cracking it is in street clothes and his team is headed for the lottery. And Gilbert knows this, because while there is no one wh
