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Gilbert Arenas: The G League is going to be in trouble. Why would an NBA prospect go to the G League when they can go to college? G League is paying me 49,000. College is paying me a million, million and a half, 500,000. So, if I got eligibility, I'm going to search for it and I'm going to try to get it instead of playing the G League for $49,000.
Gilbert Arenas: Every player, if you know you're going to be done within two years, you should start cutting your losses to try to get back to as close as normal as possible, because if you don't have a job right after that, it's all negative income. When we were talking about hard bills, you're talking about light, cars, insurance, baby mamas, right? Paying your folks, paying their house, paying their cars, right? So some of y'all can leave and your hard bills 100,000, 150, 200, 300, hard bills. You remember like when you're playing in the NBA you're collecting bills. Anthony Davis, the house he just sold, $39 million. What you think that water bill is? That light bill, the grass bill, right? He's spending $45,000 probably a month just to upkeep it. Just that house, not the cars in that house, not family, friends, not other houses. So it's the hard bills that get us at the end. And it normally takes an athlete two years to adjust to his new life, because the embarrassment of selling sh*t cuz you don't want people to think you're broke. So you hold on to sh*t that you don't supposed to and going broke. And that happens a lot.
Given the uncertainty that comes with being dangled in trade rumors, the locker room has to be a very emotional environment. But some players are using this opportunity to pull off some jokes at the expense of their teammates, if Gilbert Arenas' story is to be believed. “You wanted to mess with somebody? All you had to say is [the SportsCenter theme]. Breaking news. What happened. Who? Your a** been traded bro,” Arenas recalled in the latest episode of his podcast. “Every locker room got at least one dude walking around like ‘yo bro, you got traded’ every 10 minutes.”
According to former NBA All-Star guard Gilbert Arenas, this was not always the case, as press people during the 80s and 90s did not engage in negative talk about players or speak ill of them. Arenas cited Michael Jordan‘s performance in the Barcelona Olympics as an example. “There was no negativity in the early 80s, 90s. The game was glorified and pushed positive. They didn’t bash Magic/Bird/Kareem for losing in finals…. Imagine USA ’92 team today, and looking at Michael Jordan box scores are talked about today from how he performed. In ’92, nobody knows MJ was struggling in Olympics and shooting that bad against guys who were wearing AAU uniforms… We didn’t hear struggling,”
Jeff Goodman: USC guard Alijah Arenas is likely to make his college debut Wednesday against Northwestern at home, source told @TheFieldOf68. Arenas, a heralded recruit and the son of former NBA guard Gilbert Arenas, has been out all season after suffering a torn meniscus in July. The 6-foot-6 Arenas is a big-time talent who, like his father, can really score.
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Gilbert Arenas: “The media who watched and covered MJ are still the most prominent voices today, and they push their love for him like it’s the only version of greatness. We never heard how many times Magic or Kareem lost in the Finals—only the positives were shared. But now, any star who might be the ‘next MJ’ gets picked apart. Only their flaws are highlighted.”
Former NBA star Matt Barnes is pushing back on rumors that claimed he was scammed by an AI model. A rumor circulating around the internet got fresh air from another former NBAer, Gilbert Arenas, who addressed the gossip on his own podcast. Apparently, as the internet says, Barnes fell victim to a catfish who managed to walk off with $61,000 of his money. 'I've sat back and watched the internet lie about me the whole year,' Barnes said in a video posted to his Instagram account. 'The whole year -- lies from me being gay, to me talking abortion to me telling some girl not to do a reality show.' 'I get back from Dubai ... I see all of a sudden I'm suing an A.I. model, or I got played by an A.I. model.' 'You guys believe I got played by an A.I. model, and I'm suing 'em? Where the f*** did you guys get this from?!'
Barnes also called out Arenas, saying he eventually reached out to the former Wizards star to ask why he never checked in with him in the first place. 'I told him, 'After all we've been through, bro, like tap in with me to see if it's real.' He apologized,' Barnes said. He added in the video, 'Y'all can't believe everything you motherf***in' hear!!' Barnes opened up about a tough 2025 for him. In addition to the rumors, the 45-year-old revealed in April that his fiancée, Ananasa Sims, broke off their engagement. He was later publicly accused of infidelity by Sims.
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Do you have any regrets in your career?" Gilbert Arenas: "Yeah. Like, I do regret something. I told them—because they’d been… So when I got injured, I was basically boycotted. They took me out of the starting lineup, and I said, 'You know what? I'm going home.' Then my teammates were like, 'No, no. It's not about the coach, man. It's about us. This is about us. You gotta do it for us.' So I stayed, ended up playing… got hurt. And that—that’s what really ended my career. I regretted listening to them. I never did that before. But the pressure is real, you know what I mean? I was the star. Like, I’m not like them. Most of those guys weren’t even gonna be there the next year. But they were acting like, 'This is a team.' It wasn’t a team—it was just me.
Gilbert Arenas: "The defense didn’t get tough until around ‘89, when things started tightening up. Everyone talks about the 'Bad Boy' Pistons like they were always that. Nah, man—the Detroit Pistons didn’t become that team until like 1990 to 1993." "And let’s not forget: 70% of the league was cokeheads. They didn’t know what they were doing. The draft? We draft 54 people now. Back then? 216 players got drafted the year Jordan came in. I swear to God—your uncle probably got drafted."
Gilbert Arenas: Magic Johnson lost four NBA Finals. Same with Kareem—he lost a whole bunch of Finals too. But nobody talked about it… because that wasn’t the narrative." "They just pushed greatness to us. Jordan was horrible in the ‘92 Olympics. Horrible. He was probably the fourth or fifth best player on that team." "But again, it was Michael Jordan, so he was presented as the best player. Why? We just saw that Team USA won by a hundred… and Jordan was there. Magic wasn’t even playing. Larry Bird wasn’t playing.
"You’d be great on ESPN though. Why wouldn’t you want to do that?" Gilbert Arenas: "Man… they don’t pay like that. You’d be working 9 to 12 hours a day. I’d rather do 30 minutes of work and call it a day."