It's No Laughing Matter

Wizard star Gilbert Arenas is set to meet with the cops to give his side of the story about a locker-room incident with teammate Javaris Grittenton almost two weeks ago. What has began as a practical joke would have been funnier if Arenas brings a toy gun instead of unloaded hand gun.

Arenas could face a lengthy suspension and risk getting his six years US$111 million deal voided by the Wizards by invoking the moral clause in a standard NBA contract.

Arenas already admitted bringing unloaded firearms to the arena to keep it away from his kids. Keeping them in gun container.

According to Yahoo! Sports, he took them out of the container before a Dec. 21 practice and laid the guns on a chair, then told Crittenton to choose one and make good on a threat that stemmed from a card game on a late-night flight from Phoenix back to Washington two days earlier.

As the game got more expensive, Crittenton joked about what could happen to people who didn’t honour their debts. Arenas has has a well-deserved reputation as a prankster and laying out the guns apparently was his way of trying to diffuse any lingering tension between the two.

Instead, the gesture enraged Crittenton. According to a New York Post report, Arenas and Crittenton wound up drawing guns on each other.

I guess this time Arenas won’t be able to laugh this off.