The Wizards' Bullets

We are getting closer and closer to a real life replay of the Last Boyscout. And when it does, is there any doubt it will involve a NBA player.

Here's the latest on the Gilbert Arenas incident from the Washington Post, an account that raises more questions than it answers. For instance, the ONLY player that actually loaded a gun - chambered a round and cocked it - was Crittenden, not Arenas. Why hasn't the NBA issued any discipline for Crittenden? It also appears from the account below, that Arenas wasn't so much threatening Crittenden but taunting him to carry out the threat Crittenden previously made to shoot Arenas in his bad knee. Crazy.

It also might help explain why Arenas has tried to joke about it - the finger-gun shooting during the Philly introductions only added to Stern's urgency to act. Arenas didn't take things seriously cause he was the one that didn't make the serious threat, i.e, shooting him in the knee, nor the one that actually brandished a loaded gun in the locker room (though he did bring in four unloaded ones)

The dispute between Arenas and Crittenton began on the team plane during a popular card game between players called "Boo-ray." Crittenton lost roughly $1,100 to JaVale McGee, a Wizards center, in the game, according to a player who watched the game and who also spoke on condition of anonymity. Crittenton, already angry over a dispute over the game's rules, became irate when Arenas began needling him.

Their barbs escalated to a point where Arenas, smiling, said he would blow up Crittenton's car, according to two players on the flight, who requested anonymity. Crittenton replied that he would shoot Arenas in his surgically repaired knee.

Walking into the locker room two days after the dispute on the team plane, according to two witnesses, Arenas laid out the guns in Crittenton's locker. Two other teammates eventually sauntered in and, while Arenas was writing the note in front of Crittenton's cubicle, in walked Crittenton, according to their account.

Asking Arenas what he was doing, Arenas replied, "If you want to shoot me, I'd just thought I'd make it easy for you." As other teammates laughed, Crittenton crumpled up the paper, tossed one of Arenas's guns across the room, where it bounced in front of a team trainer, and said he didn't need any of Arenas's firearms because he had his own, according to the witness accounts.

Crittenton then drew his weapon, loaded it and chambered a round, the witnesses said.

Neither witness said the gun was ever pointed at Arenas, but both said Crittenton began singing as he held the gun.

Arenas began laughing, the witnesses said, telling Crittenton, "Look at that little shiny gun," as two other players slowly retreated to the training room.

Arenas eventually followed. By the time the players came back out, Crittenton was gone.