Gilbert Arenas Promises to Stop Creating Distractions, Compares Self to LeBron James

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Bullets Forever: Front Page Posts found this 7/23/2008 on myespn.go.com [flag]
Dan Steinberg of the D.C. Sports Bog was at the press conference announcing Gilbert Arenas's new contract. Most of the talk, reports Steinberg, was disappointingly bland, in keeping with a new Arenas promise to grow up somewhat, with his big new deal. But I bet some of this will raise eyebrows in Cleveland: The best part was this exchange, after Ivan Carter asked about the responsibility ... [link]

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Player Evaluation: Gilbert Arenas
Published 7/23/2008 by Pradamaster at Bullets Forever: Front Page Posts
... court, yet he may have been the best role player of all time.  One's image is always a flawed sense of both their reality and their basketball abilities.  Nobody really knows Gilbert Arenas, much less bloggers like myself.  I never really cared about what he says in the press or what he does with his free time, so long as he doesn't jeopardize his game or his teammates (and I'm not talking about guarantees).  (I love True Hoop, but why is the second part of this post titled this way?)  Essentially, what I'm saying is that I don't really have a ...

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