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As I've stated here, there and everywhere, Gilbert Arenas is my favorite NBA player and Wizard/Bullet of all time (sorry, T-Nes!), so it's with great concern that I've been following the story of his arrest in Miami during Urban Beach Week. Today Michael Wilbon blew the lid off the thing with a column in the Washington Post that was read more intently by me than anything since that Frank 151/No Mas drugs-in-sports piece. Here are some excerpts...

  Arenas on SBL

"When I was taken in, I said, 'I don't mean to be rude, but can I talk to the officer who arrested me?' And the officer says, 'You were being nosy.' And I said, 'Are you putting that in your official police report, that I was being nosy?' And then he keeps asking me questions:

" 'Do you have tattoos?' I said, 'Yes, I have three.' And then, 'What is your street name?' I laughed. Of course I laughed. My street name? What? Okay, it's Zero Hero. [Arenas wears "0" on his Wizards jersey.]

" 'And he says, 'Oh, everything is funny to you, huh?' "

Anyway, what we all wantto know is whether he said it -- whether he said, as the police report stated, "You can't arrest me. I'm a basketball player. I play for the Washington Wizards."

Arenas took a deep sigh. "You know I didn't say that," he said. "It's so dumb. . . . Have you seen the movie 'Anchorman?' There's a scene where Ron Burgundy says, 'I'm kinda of a big deal; people know me.' It reminds me of that. It doesn't work in the movies or on TV . . ."

I, like Wilbon, totally believe Gil's side of the story, and you have to appreciate the Ron Burgundy reference. It's refreshing to know that we share the same taste in cinema. Although I would like Arenas to start referring to himself as Agent Zero when called upon to reveal his street name, even if Black President is way funnier. Either would be better than Zero Hero. That's just lame.

Anyway, kudos to Wilbon for getting the story out there.

Bonus: Wizznutzz have interviewed Gilbert Arenas Sr., who used to be an extra on Miami Vice.

Related: In other DC-sports legal news, Sean Taylor isn't going to jail. Which unfortunately means DCSportsFan.com may stop selling these t-shirts now...

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• #4 Comment from monponsett
  6/2/06 11:08 PM | Permalink

  I thought he called someone a smelly pirate hooker.
• #3 Comment from rebelk9
  6/1/06 4:08 PM | Permalink

  whacky germans
• #2 Comment from knemeth00
  6/1/06 3:18 PM | Permalink

  How can one not love G.A.? I don't like any DC teams really, but Arenas is a God amonst men around here! San Diego... which translates into "A whale's vagina"
  http://journals.aol.com/knemeth00/TheLushFactor/
• #1 Comment from rebelk9
  6/1/06 9:47 AM | Permalink

  Thank god for DC bloggers