More on the NBA Locker Room Thing
Multiple sources told ESPN.com that an argument commenced during a card game on the team’s overnight flight back to Washington from Phoenix on Dec. 19 and escalated into a heated exchange between Arenas and Crittenton. The Wizards had Dec. 20 off, but sources say hostilities between the two Wizards guards resumed Dec. 21 in the locker room on a practice day.
Sources say that Arenas, in response to what was said on the flight, placed the three guns on a chair near Crittenton’s locker stall and invited him to pick one before practice on Dec. 21. Sources said that Crittenton subsequently let Arenas know that he had his own gun.
Though that’s a lot different than earlier reports that “they drew guns on each other,” it still shows an incredible amount of poor judgment.
I haven’t seen whether these were DC-legal guns. Plus NBA rules forbid guns in locker rooms.
Do these guys think they live in the old West? Drawing their six-shooters to shoot a card-cheat. They should have taken it out to the dusty street in front of the saloon before drawing on each other.
what ever happened to just… beating the piss out of someone? i play my share of poker in home games and underground cardrooms (alas, no legal poker in texas) and beating the piss out of a cheat is usually the go-to option. i mean, at my level of play, anyway. i suppose if youre talking tens of thousands of dollars the situation might be different… but still… simple assault has been settling these kinds of disputes effectively pretty much forever.
Lots of immature people with money in sports now