Arenas pulls plug on comedy routine (column)

[rise]

On the bright side, no one really cares because Wizards rookie John Wall is quite good at basketball.

ha

Arenas really needs a trade.

[Andrew]

With his contract, who's going to make that trade though?

[benji]

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=24o3ett

There we go, everyone wins.

[shadowgrin]

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=2bloena

or

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=2ufc8y5

[benji]

Some more sensible, everyone wins, trades:
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=3xrpj3s
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=29wbjze
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=26dl86h
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=24txqby
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=2499p2m

[Rip32]

I like that you somehow traded an entire line-up of Rockets' players, ones who are better than the current Wizards' starters, for just Gilbert.

[benji]

Then you'll really like this one: http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=2a73jam

Don't let Joe D see this one: http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=2anjxvk

[Fresh8]

Karma is a bitch

[JaoSming]

surprised none of you did the 1 to 1 trade with Melo.....

[The X]

Karma is a bitch

In that case, I wonder when karma will come back to bite Kobe on the arse

[Lamrock]

Then you'll really like this one: http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=2a73jam

The Nets would win -7 games.

[rise]

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2bloena

If this was the Gilbert from four years ago, I would have said "Go for it!", but it's not.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=29wbjze

My favorite.

[Andrew]

In that case, I wonder when karma will come back to bite Kobe on the arse

A career ending injury when he's on the brink of breaking Kareem's all-time scoring record.

[The X]

In that case, I wonder when karma will come back to bite Kobe on the arse

A career ending injury when he's on the brink of breaking Kareem's all-time scoring record.

I would never wish that on anyone though

[Andrew]

Agreed. How about coming up short on a threepeat this year?

[The X]

That seems fair, where everything goes against the Lakers including a team coming back from 20 points down in the fourth quarter

[rise]

How about seeing the Lakers falling short of reaching the playoffs?
As funny as that would be, I doubt it would ever happen as their bench is so deep their injured reserves would be better than half of the Wolves' starting lineup.

[formx]

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=ygz8y5d
I just laughed at this

[Fresh8]

That seems fair, where everything goes against the Lakers including a team coming back from 20 points down in the fourth quarter

Portland in Game 7 of WCF?

I think that would be ironic... and devastating.

[shadowgrin]

Braces?

[JaoSming]

combo breaker?

[shadowgrin]

[Andrew]

Story has changed.

Last Thursday, after practice in Washington, Arenas told SPORTS ILLUSTRATED that the real reason he sat out wasn't, as he originally told reporters, to rest his thrice-surgically-repaired knee, nor was it the excuse he gave the next day, that he wanted to give backup point guard Nick Young the chance to play. "I was really scared of getting booed," says Arenas. "It's a little crazy because I was here with Kwame Brown when Kwame was scared to go out there. I used to be like, Man, it's just boos. Now here I was six years later, and I was him. I was scared to go out there."

He should've just left that one alone.

[shadowgrin]

There was one other source of inspiration: Undisputed III, a direct-to-DVD movie about a prison fighter who overcomes a grotesque knee injury to reclaim his status as the best fighter in the world. Arenas watched it more than a dozen times over the summer, and the mountain-man beard he sported during training camp was modeled on the facial hair of the film's protagonist, Yuri Boyka. "[Boyka] wanted to prove he was still the man," says Arenas.

Scott Adkins fan!

[benji]

I wish somebody would pay me $100 million to have a public mental breakdown.

I don't even need to use my disorders to do it. Especially with that kind of cash. I can spend 80% of it on the project and make out like a bandit for the rest of my life.

Then in a couple years, VH1 would pay me to have sex with a bunch of sluts on camera.