'What'd I do now coach?'
Just when the dust had begun to settle from New York Giants Wide Receiver Plaxico Burress' (accidentally) self-inflicted gunshot wound to his leg last year, NBA guard Gilbert Arenas has stirred the pot once again. The Washington Wizard pulled two handguns on teammate Javaris Crittenton in a heated dispute over a supposed gambling debt Crittenton had incurred during a card game on a team flight.
I really don't want to spend much time on this one except to say that I hope NBA Commissioner David Stern throws the book at Arenas. Make an example of him, because the NBA cannot afford another similar occurrence. Arenas has to be suspended at the very least for the remainder of this season. And if it were up to me, I might suspend him for life for putting other players in harm's way.
From every angle, this looks terrible. From a league perspective with regards to marketing, professionalism and sportsmanship. Furthermore, racially, as there countless young upstanding Black basketball players who will inevitably feel the racist tremors from the shock-wave that Arenas' embarrassingly idiotic actions will invoke in the United States. You know, they'll go something like: "Oh, the NBA has gone too Hip Hop" or "Just more Black men shooting at each other". Way to go Arenas!
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