Gilbert Arenas is awesome. In his latest blog post, which thanks to the NBA’s technologically-backwards website* is really just one of a number of entries all stuck on his main page, Arenas assures his DC fans that he intends to stick around. He explains that his purpose in opting out of his current contract is entirely financial and does not indicate any desire to leave the team:
I want to make sure that they get all the people they can get before I sign my deal because if I sign first and then eat up all the money, then we can’t get anybody.
If I let them pick out who they’re going to pick, like get the draftees and sign the free agents, the money will still be there.
Abe Pollin believed in me after Michael Jordan. He told me that I was the guy he wanted to build around after Jordan was gone. I’m a loyal player.
I don’t have an agent. My counsel is myself. I just go through all the rules and read up on stuff. I just sit there and read stuff that happened in the past and why things didn’t work out and why things are the way they are.
You’ve got to love this guy. Incidentally, he mentions that he’s hoping to get a reality show on ESPN. I think I speak for everyone when I say that would be awesome.
He also updated us on his rehab status:
I had to get motion back in my legs and get the strength back up so I’ve been biking probably about 18 miles every two to three days.
Me and my trainer have been doing it for the past three summers.
My fear that I was having was falling, that was my biggest fear – falling on my leg. Wouldn’t you know, we were riding on the freeway and I had to get off and go on the pike towards the airport and Crystal City. The people behind me were too close so I couldn’t break and I had to just jump the curb going at least 15 miles an hour.
Whoo! That wasn’t a pretty sight. I had grass stains and all sorts of stuff. I fell on my good leg so it was nothing to worry about. All the cars were stopping and asking, “You alright?” I was like, “Yeah, you know, my ego is hurt but that’s about it.”
I wasn’t wearing a bike helmet. The only people who wear bike helmets are 13-year old girls and Tony Hawk, but that’s skateboarding and he’s doing flips and stuff. I’m going straight.
I swear, if the Wizards don’t sign Gil to a max contract, they’ll be making an enormous mistake. I don’t even care how he plays–he’s such an appealing, open, and weird guy that we can’t afford to lose him. And although the Wizards have been making pretty good decisions of late, I wouldn’t put this kind of horrific miscalculation past them. Let’s just cross our fingers and hope for the best.
Speaking of which, it sounds like this might finally be Rocky Macintosh’s year. Go Skins.
* This is how stupid the NBA blog setup is: if you click on the link to get to the post from your RSS reader of choice, you get an error message. As far as I can tell, individual blog posts don’t even have their own URLs. Like I said above, they just put them all on one page, with # anchors to particular entries. It’s MADNESS, people.
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