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Those who pay any attention at all to basketball know Gilbert Arenas since he is consistently one of the NBA’s top players (when he’s not injured).  But what many basketball fans don’t know is that Arenas is a big-time gambler who spends a lot of time in the Washington Wizards locker room playing high stakes poker.  More recently, Arenas has been playing a lot with teammate Jaravis Crittenton.

Unfortunately for Gilbert, he racked up a $25,000 debt to Crittenton as the two have been playing.  According to sources, Arenas has been slow to pay his gambling debts which resulted in a huge feud between Jaravis and him.  Things boiled over on a team flight when the two started arguing with Crittenton screaming out, “I’m not your punk!”  A couple of days later, Arenas placed 3 guns by Crittenton’s locker and told him to pick one. 

But nothing even compares to what happened a few days ago when the two teammates pulled out guns on each other.  Luckily, things didn’t go any further than the two pulling out the guns, but it was definitely a bad experience for the entire Wizards organization.

Since the gun incident, Arenas has had to do some backpedaling in an attempt to save his 6-year, 111 million dollar contract.  He told reporters that him and Crittenton are still friends in addition to saying about the situation, “I can’t speak on that.  But if you know me, you’ve been here, I’ve never done anything (involving) violence.  Anything I do is funny…..well, it’s funny to me.”

He also said that the guns were in the locker room because he didn’t want his kids to get a hold of them.  He stated this by saying, “That’s bad judgement on my part to store them in here, and I take full responsibility for that.  I have to deal with the police investigation.”