Reggie Evans Named NBA’s Dirtiest Player
Why Your Hand Down There The Ball Is By His Face
In a recent poll conducted by Sports Illustrated they asked 173 NBA players who they thought was the dirtiest player in the league was. According to the players it was Reggie Evans. Los Angeles Clippers Chris Kaman and Philadelphia 76ers Samuel Dalembert could not agree more. Here’s the rest of the list:
- Reggie Evans, Toronto Raptors (21%)
- Ron Artest, Los Angeles Lakers (13%)
- Andres Nocioni, Sacramento Kings (6%)
- Anderson Varejao, Cleveland Cavaliers (5%)
- Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers (4%)
Interesting though that Washington Wizards Fabricio Oberto who leads the league in fouls per 48 minutes, averaging 9.1, did not receive a single vote.
Who do you think is the NBA’s dirtiest player?
Caron Butler Says Goodbye To The District Of Columbia
Class Act
The District of Columbia’s tears will be a little more heavier tonight knowing that a man who represented their city to the world now calls Dallas home.
When you get traded, you don’t get time to say goodbye. More important, you don’t get the opportunity to say, “Thank you.”
Thank you, to some of the best fans in the world. Representing you and representing this city has been an honor I will always cherish.
During my 4 1/2 years as a Wizard, I learned many valuable lessons, especially how to give back to the community. The most rewarding part of my time in Washington was meeting the incredible people of this city, and I will miss you all. Thank you to the countless individuals who helped me with the annual Coats for Kids, the Bike Brigade and my basketball camp. The memories are many and will never be replaced.
When I came to Washington, I dreamed of winning a championship. I thought I would play the rest of my career in this city, retire a Wizard and one day see my number hanging from the rafters at Verizon Center. I have learned that in basketball, as in life, nothing is guaranteed.
Thank you for the memories. My family and I will treasure them forever. Washington will always hold a special place in my heart.
Caron Butler, Dallas
Josh Howard Takes DNP Due To Hangover
Smooth
Josh Howard’s lack of production and past infractions may have set things in motion long ago, but the inciting moment that may have led to Howard’s ticket out of Dallas seems to be a DNP-due to hangover.
Several Maverick sources said Howard had a long night of partying on January 19, the night after the Mavericks had won in Boston and less than 24 hours before playing the Washington Wizards. The team officially said he missed the game against Washington on Jan. 20 with a stomach illness. But team officials said that it was a self-inflicted game off.
It certainly be the first time that Howard partying has drawn criticism as his notorious 2008 birthday party that he threw during a playoff series in which the Mavs were getting creamed by the New Orleans Hornets drew the fire from then-coach Avery Johnson and Mavs’ management. Oh, and then there the YouTube video about the national anthem. And the drag racing. And the admission of marijuana use.
Dominic McGuire Traded To Sacramento Kings
Moving Day
The Sacramento Kings acquired Dominic McGuire and cash considerations from the Washington Wizards in exchange for a protected 2010 second round draft pick.
The trade helps continue the process of putting the Wizards in a more positive financial position.
McGuire was initially acquired by Washington with the 47th overall pick in the second round of the 2007 NBA Draft. In 190 career games (58 starts) with Washington, McGuire has averaged 2.5 points and 3.3 rebounds in 15.8 minutes per game.
Wizards: Winners/Kings: Losers
Antawn Jamison & Sebastian Telfair Traded For Zydrunas Ilgauskas & Al Thornton
Moving Day
The Cleveland Cavaliers acquired Antawn Jamison and guard Sebastian Telfair in part of a three team trade that sent center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, a 2010 first-round draft pick and the rights to Emir Preldzic, who was selected in the second round of last year’s draft by Cleveland to the Washington Wizards. The Wizards also received forward Al Thornton from Los Angeles Clippers who in turn received Drew Gooden to the Los Angeles.
The Cavaliers had long coveted an athletic power forward who could play on the perimeter after they were eliminated by the Orlando Magic in last year’s Eastern Conference finals. Jamison, who had been with the Wizards since 2004, was an All-Star in both 2005 and 2008, and averaged 20.5 points in 41 games. He missed the first nine games of this season with a sprained right shoulder. Jamison is still owed $28 million over the next two seasons.
Telfair, who’s 24, will be playing for his fourth team. The former first-round pick has averaged 7.9 points in his career.
Ilgauskas, who is 34, has played his entire 12-year NBA career with the Cavaliers. He was supplanted as the starter center by Shaquille O’Neal this season. He’s averaging 7.5 points and 5.3 rebounds this season. His career averages are 13.9 points and 7.7 rebounds.
Ilgauskas’ agent, Herb Rudoy, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he would work quickly to get a buyout from Washington. That would free up Ilgauskas to sign with another team including re-signing with the Cavaliers, although he’d have to wait 30 days to return to Cleveland.
The 6-foot-7 Thornton has averaged 13.7 in his three-year career with the Clippers.
The Wizards acquired Gooden on Saturday in a multiplayer trade and was reportedly seeking a buyout but before that could happen he was sent to the Clippers.
Cavalries: Winners/ Wizards: Losers/ Clippers: Losers
Juan Dixon Test Positive For Steriods In Europe
"Damn homie, in high school you was the man, homie"
Another athlete has been suspended indefinitely from play but this time the player isn’t affiliated with baseball. It’s former Maryland star Juan Dixon, who is the program’s all-time points leader, tested positive for the steroid nandrolone and was indefinitely suspended by the International Basketball Federation. Dixon is currently playing in Europe for the Spanish team Unicaja. He took the drug test in November.
He was drafted by the Washington Wizards, then played with the Toronto Raptors, Portland Trail Blazers, Detroit Pistons and was cut by the Atlanta Hawks last October before resorting to earning a paycheck overseas.
Dallas Mavericks & Washington Wizards Complete 7 Player Trade
Moving Day
The Washington Wizards completed a blockbuster seven player deal with the Dallas Mavericks. The Wizards sent Caron Butler, Bredan Haywood, DeShawn Stevenson and cash considerations to Dallas for Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, Quinton Ross and James Singleton.
For Dallas this trade gives them hope in of knocking off the Los Angeles Lakers in the playoffs. this spring.Butler is a significant upgrade over Howard,who had fallen out of favor with Dallas and struggled this season. Butler’s salary for next season of $10.6 million is pretty reasonable given what he brings to the table. Haywood also gives the Mavs a defensive center who can give Dallas some toughness inside now that Erick Dampier is dealing with some soreness in his knee. Haywood has long been criticized for inconsistent play but is still a starting-quality center that teamed up with Jason Kidd, I think you’ll see Haywood surprise a lot of people. Stevenson helps the Mavericks in depth department.
On the flip side, Wizards’ GM Ernie Grunfeld continues to perplex me. When he was running the Bucks, he was the mastermind behind the disastrous Ray Allen-for-Gary Payton swap, and in the last two years, he signed Gilbert Arenas to an outlandish contract (for a guy coming off of knee surgery) and now, in an effort to “rebuild,” he’s trading away a very good 29-year-old small forward for a decent 29-year-old small forward. For Washington, this is a clear cost-cutting move that will save the Wizards about $13.5 million in salary next season it could be more but I don’t see Ross declining his player option on $1.1 million.
The players physicals were waived, meaning every player should be in their new uniforms right after the All-Star break.
Wizards: Losers/Mavericks: Winners
Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas Writes Online Apology
Making Amends
Suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas wrote a piece for The Washington Post that he would try to rebuild his relationship with D.C. youth following his guilty plea on a felony gun charge.
Arenas wrote in The Post that he realized he had let down the youth in the D.C. area and would work hard to regain the trust he had built with them.
“I understand the importance of teaching nonviolence to kids in today’s world,” Arenas wrote.
“Guns and violence are serious problems, not joking matters — a lesson that’s been brought home to me over the past few weeks. I thought about this when I pleaded guilty as charged in court and when I accepted my NBA suspension without challenge. That message of nonviolence will be front and center as I try to rebuild my relationship with young people in the D.C. area. I know that won’t happen overnight, and that it will happen only if I show through my actions that I am truly sorry and have learned from my mistakes. If I do that, then hopefully youngsters will learn from the serious mistakes I made with guns and not make any of their own.”
Arenas said he had let down his teammates with the Wizards as well as Irene Pollin, the widow of longtime team owner Abe Pollin. Pollin, who changed the team’s name from Bullets in 1997 because of D.C.’s violence. After Pollin’s death, Arenas said he called his father on the West Coast because Pollin was the father away from California.
“I said that I lost sight of the lesson I learned from Abe Pollin about how the responsibility to be a good role model comes along with the opportunity he gave me,” Arenas wrote.
For the full transcript of the Arenas written post, click [here]
WTF: Nike
Perfect Timing
Yes Kobe Bryant is the front man in the ad for Nike but they all the creative control. So Nike is the “Prepare for Combat” and the following quote at the bottom of the poster coming at the right?
“I’ll do whatever it takes to win games. I don’t leave anything in the chamber.”
Especially in the wake of Bryant’s former teammate Washington Wizard Javaris Crittenton, one of the two Wizards players suspended, pleading guilty to a gun charge after he brandished a loaded gun and chambered a bullet during a locker room confrontation with Gilbert Arenas.
Washington Wizards Javaris Crittenton Finally Charged With Weapons Violations
You Got, Got
The Washington DC district attorney hadn’t forgotten they was another Washington Wizard involved in the whole Gilbert Arenas locker room gun showdown.
That’s because an attorney for guard Javaris Crittenton says the player will plead guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge just 10 days after teammate Arenas pleaded guilty to a felony gun charge.
Crittenton was charged with two misdemeanors, possession of an unregistered firearm and attempted carrying a pistol without a license.
Crittenton’s lawyer, Peter H. White, says prosecutors plan to drop the second charge if Crittenton pleads guilty.
He says Crittenton brought a legally owned, handgun to Washington “only because he legitimately feared for his life.”
He says the player accepts responsibility for his conduct.
Arenas pleaded guilty on January 15 to a felony gun charge connected to a locker-room argument that is believed to have involved Crittenton.
BLOCK CITY: Your Victims-Caron Butler & Antawn Jamison
Marcus Camby, you have been charged with multiple crimes of Representin.
And the verdict is Guilty.
A Whites-Only Basketball League In Gerogia
The Days Of Fundemental Basketball & Scores Of 4 To 2
A whites-only basketball league aims to launch in twelve cities this summer, according to a report in the Augusta Chronicle. The All-American Basketball Alliance would also ban players born outside the United States.
The league’s commissioner, Don “Moose” Lewis, claims that he doesn’t “hate anyone of color. But people of white, American-born citizens are in the minority now.” Thus, he says, the All-American Basketball Alliance would be “a league for white players to play fundamental basketball, which they like.”
The report includes additional shocking quotes from the commissioner:
Lewis said he wants to emphasize fundamental basketball instead of “street-ball” played by “people of color.” … “Would you want to go to the game and worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grabbing their crotch?” he said. “That’s the culture today, and in a free country we should have the right to move ourselves in a better direction.”
He points to recent incidents in the NBA, including Gilbert Arenas indefinite suspension after bringing guns into the Washington Wizards locker room, as examples of fans dissatisfaction.
Excuse me while I lose my mind her “street ball played by people of color”? Who fuck does this guy think he’s fooling, especially when it’s coming from Augusta, Georgia.
What does this say to little Tommy?
WTF: Nike
Missed The Point
I apreciate Nike trying to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day but why are they the Pan-African flag colors? Martin Luther King Jr. was about bringing all races together not a solidarity state.
Martin Luther King was not a leading Pan-African thinker. King was focused on ending racism in America, not with creating African brotherhood worldwide. Nike essentially honored King for something he was not.
Washington Wizards and North Carolina graduate Brendan Haywood was asked how he felt about Nike honoring Martin Luther King with Pan-African shoes. He paused for a long while, almost as if he didn’t want to say something he regretted, and finally said “It was the idea [that counted].
Adidas Drops Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas
Behind Bars
Adidas has ended its endorsement contract with Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas.
An Adidas spokesman told celebrity gossip blog TMZ on Friday that the company has decided to “terminate its agreement with Arenas effective immediately.”
The move came hours after Arenas pleaded guilty to a felony charge of carrying a pistol without a license.
Adidas originally signed Arenas in ‘03.
Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas Pleads Guilty To Felony
Behind Bars
Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas has officially entered a “guilty” plea in a Washington D.C. courtroom to his single felony count of carrying a pistol without a license.
Without a jury trial, Arenas is expected to be sentenced on March 26. Despite Gil being a repeat offender (he was convicted of a gun charge in 2003), the prosecution reportedly recommended a lower-end sentence; the minimum being six months in jail and the max being five years.
“He accepted full responsibility for his actions, acknowledged that those actions were wrong and against the law, and has apologized to all who have been affected by his conduct,” Gilbert’s lawyer, Ken Wainstein, said in a statement. “Mr. Arenas appreciates the professionalism of the authorities handling this matter.
Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas Charged With A Felony
Behind Bars
Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas is charged with carrying a pistol without a license outside home or business which comes as a felony that brings a maximum of 5 years behind bars.
The NBA suspended Arenas indefinitely on January 6. At the time, NBA commissioner David “The Goon” Stern said Arenas “is not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game.”
The suspension followed reports that he and teammate Javaris Crittenton drew guns on each other in the Wizards locker room in which Crittenton gun was loaded and one in the chamber. For his part, Arenas has said the episode was a “misguided effort to play a joke.”
Arenas has drawn support from at least one teammate. Before a game last Sunday, DeShawn Stevenson took to the court with “Agent Zero” written on his shins, a reference to his embattled teammate.
Shaquille O’Neal Has Tiger Woods Size Women Problems
Fatal Attraction
Cleveland Cavaliers Shaquille O’Neal has enjoyed a lot of success on the court but off the court it’s a different story with his well documented breakup, makeup, breakup marriage to Shaunie O’Neal as well as his affairs with Laura Govan, the fiancee of Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas, Atlanta stripper LaTosha Lee and nude model Dominica Westling. Now his off the court relationship has hit center court once again with model Vanessa Lopez who has now hired Gloria Allred, the same woman representing several women linked to Tiger Woods including Rachel Uchitel,to represent her because she claims Shaq is harassing her.
Lopez has been connected with other NBA stars like Denver Nuggets Kenyon Martin, Orlando Magics J.J. Reddick,and O’Neal’s current teammate Delonte West, who had a brief relationship with Lopez in 2006 when he was a member of the Boston Celtics.
The alleged problems started when Shaq thought Lopez was seeing another guy, who had thoughtwas pregnant with the basketball player’s child, which prompted O’Neal and his sister to allegedly begin to harass her. The lawsuit also claims that Shaq hacked into her voice mail and text messages.
In 2004, she says she met O’Neal again while out at a club and says that he approached her and offered to buy her drinks. When Lopez told him she knew he was married, O’Neal told her he had an open marriage and that his union with wife Shaunie was for public image only. Lopez and O’Neal then began an “intimate” five year affair
Allred went on to reveal that in September 2009 “Ms. Lopez was late with her period and thought that she might be pregnant. She communicated this to Mr. O’Neal who responded by stating that she needed to tell the baby’s father and then went on to state that there was no way that the baby could be his.”
“Mr. O’Neal knew that he and Ms. Lopez engaged in unprotected sex and that they had been together numerous times in the preceding months and that she had not been with anyone else during this period of time. She felt that his response was very disrespectful and she was deeply hurt and offended. Though he apologized to her for his reaction she told him that it was over and that she wanted him to leave her alone but told her that he wanted to always have her in his life.”
Allred claims this is when the harassment started.
Tiger Woods is not impressed.
DeShawn Stevenson Shows Support Of Teammate Gilbert Arenas
Blow The Whistle Part Deux
I think we are beyond the point of rehashing what Gilbert Arenas did it should be noted that at the Verizon Center, home of the Washington Wizards, the team has removed virtually every image of Gilbert and even removed all of his jerseys in the teams merchandise shop.
That hasn’t stopped teammate DeShawn Stevenson from showing his support for his suspended teammate. When his team hosted the New Orleans Hornets today Stevenson took to the court during pregame warmups with the words “AGENT” and “ZERO” written in red capital letters on tape wrapped around his shins.
I still prefer his showing of support of our 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln with the neck tattoo.
Antawn Jamison Apologizes To Washington Wizards Fans
A class move by Antawn Jamison but my god he was sweating bullets.
NBA To Outlaw Gambling On Team Planes? New Jersey Nets Does So
What Is A NBA Player To Do?
In the aftermath of the Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton wild west gun showdown in the locker room over a gambling debt, the New Jersey Nets have banned all gambling games on team flights.
Rod Thorn the Nets president and former the chief of discipline for the NBA, said “I think after this incident with the Wizards that we just decided that we would not have any on our planes. We’ve never had a problem with it. But obviously, you can see what can happen.”
The NBA reportedly is considering to push that restricts gambling on team premises due to the Arenas and former referee Tim Donaghy situation.
One reason the gambling and card playing is so common is that players receive their daily per diem of $113 at the start of most road trips in one lump sum. A typical eight-day trip means that all players are boarding the first flight with more than $900 cash from the team. Losses can be settled quickly.
Orlando Magic general manager Ottis Smith said his team already does have a rule that discourages big wads of cash visible on the table but doesn’t look to ban the card games unless it becomes a requirement from the NBA.
“This whole thing has raised everyone’s awareness,” Smith said. “We’re constantly trying to educate our players, not just about guns, but about everything that’s out there. Have we done everything we can to avoid problems? Probably not. But with all this out there now, this is probably a good time to do it.”
Gilbert Arenas ‘Gun Show’ Will Cost Teammates Money
Bang! Bang! Where The Cash At?
The above photo has been making its rounds all over the web except for this site, because I decided to go with the PETA photos instead, until now depicting Gilbert Arenas and his teammates laughing it up while he shoots imaginary six shooters will now be costly.
Arenas already has no idea when he will start to receive his paychecks again and there’s word that Washington Wizards are exploring the moral clause he signed in his contract to void out the remaining $96.3 million owed to him.
Now it will cost some of his teammates as the Wizards plan to fine the players involved for participating in Arenas on-court antics that made light of his gun troubles, an NBA official said.
BANG! BANG! Where the cash at?
PETA Still Rolls With Gilbert Arenas Campaign Even After Suspension
PETA Doesn't Value Human Life
So let me get this straight PETA, you don’t endorse the killing or the abuse of animals but you do endorse a man who playfully points a gun in a teammates face? Let Arenas playfully point a weapon at an animal and see what kind of outrage comes from PETA instead of at another human being. Yep it looks like you have your priorities straight once again.
I don’t wanna hear how the photos where taken months ago and Gilbert Arenas is part of a promotion in winning a signed basketball by Agent Zero. PETA knows this is about the timing and is still willing to trot these photos out so they can help their own cause by capitalizing on the Arenas situation. PETA doesn’t care if its good press or bad press, they just want it and they don’t care if the use a human as an object to achieve that just as long as no bats where hurt in the process.
David “The Goon” Stern has suspended the Washington Wizards guard indefinitely while I’m was busy out shopping for mink and ink.
PETA Doesn't Value Human Life
David Letterman’s Top 10 Wizards Gun Explanations
It’s a toss up between Number 3 “wanted gun close by in case team tried to trade me to the Nets” and Number 2 “coach didn’t specify what kind of pre-game shootaround it was.”
Gilbert Arenas Pulls Gun On Teammate In Locker Room
Living Out Lyrics
Early this past week the news broke that the NBA was undergoing an investigation into Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas had a possession of a gun inside the teams locker room. According to the New York Post it has learned that Gilbert pulled the gun on teammate Javaris Crittenton over a gambling debt on Christmas Eve. Yeah Merry Christmas too you Javaris.
The duel in DC was sparked when Crittenton became enraged at the Arenas for refusing to make good on the debt and shouted Jarvaris shouted
“I’m not your punk!” at Arenas.
That prompted Arenas to draw on Crittenton, who then also grabbed for a gun and you had a good old fashion western standoff in an NBA locker room.
WOW!
Have you ever heard of anything like this? I’m under the assumption Gilbert can pay since he recently signed a $100 milli contract but it’s more about principle than the cash I would believe.
