The Washington Wizards of the NBA recently awarded star player Gilbert Arenas with a $111 million contract, trusting and expecting the player to lead the team back into contention for an NBA title.

Instead, the troubled player has his team sitting in the cellar of the Southeast Division with a dismal 10-20 record, four teams away from the nearest playoff spot.

To make matters a whole lot worse, Arenas interviews this week will be including law enforcement officials.

The New York Post report that Arenas had a confrontation in the Wizards’ locker room with teammate Javaris Crittenton that led to both players having guns in their hands has been confirmed by a league source. According to that source, the incident may have involved a debt of $25,000 that Arenas owed Crittenton.

NBA VP of communications Tim Frank released a statement Friday confirming that law enforcement is involved. “There is an active investigation by D.C. law enforcement authorities, which we are monitoring closely. We are not taking any independent action at this time.”

Anyone reading this must certainly be wondering what cave Arenas was hiding in during all the media coverage of the Plaxico Burress incident. How Plaxico, an NFL star, was charged with a felony, prosecuted and sentenced to serve time. How that series of events involving a handgun had squashed the man’s career and more importantly, his life.

Arenas certainly must know as much or more detail about the Plaxico event than most of us yet he still felt above the law, stored a weapon in his locker and made the decision to pull it out in view of others in the room.

Slllaaaaaaaappp!!!!!!

That was the sound of a Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week.

Sllaaaappp! And there’s another, your team isn’t called the Washington Bullets anymore!  (Washington changed the team name from the Bullets to the Wizards in 1997 because the owner didn’t like the violent overtones of the name ‘Bullets’.)

There comes a point and time where the general public, fans and the media stop feeling sorry for some of these players and this may be that time. If Arenas is found to have broken laws and is prosecuted for this asinine ordeal, the Wizards could come out big winners.

The first word you go to the team’s website is the word “character”. Imagine how much “character” the organization can buy with the $100 million of cash that would be freed up if Arenas ends up out of the league, down the same path as Plaxico.

Sllaapp! Had to throw an extra one in there on this one.

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