His Agent Zero Blog File was there for his scoring predictions, his 25th birthday bash and his All-Star experience in Vegas and continues to be considered the top blog of any pro athlete today.

ET PERMALINK Helping out kids is worth every penny. I usually have a raffle for schools that are participating in it. Last year it was total schools, this year it was actually schools. I have 41 home games and Abe Pollin took over 41 games, the other half, for the road games. It was just great that they took the time to draw up signs for me. You try to better their chances of making it in life.

I think every athlete should give back to schools. That means you have nothing. To all of my friends back home who want me to become a Laker: Just Stay in the West, Kobe I try not to look at the Western Conference teams.

I do want to see how Kobe responds to all these trade rumors. We already got rid of A. If Kobe comes, who does that hurt? Come on Commissioner Stern, please?

That only hurts me if he comes here. Come on Kobe, I understand you want to come East but go ahead and stay on the West. Look out for your No. Big Three When I said we were going to beat the Celtics on November 2, was that really a prediction? Me and my handsome self. I got a fresh cut for the Boston and Indiana fans. Break out the Arenas jerseys. You still have to play the games. He hit a triple-double once and he was one rebound and one assist away from a triple-double the game before that.

Once you get your knee drained it takes a while for it to effectively heal. You have powerhouses now who are pretty darn good like your Torontos. But you do it anyway. Last year I was 2-for on Opening Night and I was up till four in the morning the night before working on my ball handling.

I just got to go out there and just play. They get a fresh start to life again. Read This Mike Wise did another great job capturing the basketball side of my life coming into this league. Preseason Basketball Posted by Gilbert Arenas on Oct. ET PERMALINK We're back.

It takes a while for the grill to get back cooking again. It's like riding a bike. Once you start riding again, it's all good, but right now I'm rusty. I'm trying to get the rust off my bike chain. Truthfully, I'm playing like terrible trash right now.

I don't want to make an excuse, but the rims are broken in every arena I'm playing in. That's why you call it preseason. I'm Wearing a Leg Sock I'm wearing it on my leg for compression. It's not like the one A. I'm just trying to keep the blood circulating when I come off the court to the sideline. I just want to keep the blood flowing throughout my knee. I might wear it all year, it depends. Some of these arenas are cold. Can you please take the hockey teams out of basketball arenas?

Basketball is not supposed to be played on ice. I don't know if it's just me, but I hate going to arenas where it's 60 degrees outside and it's 50 degrees inside. That is not a sport. The coldest arena is Phoenix, you'd be surprised. The city is hot so they keep the gym cold. Why have hockey inside a basketball arena? The Real Big Three Our Big Three is just trying to get back in sync with each other because we haven't played together since April 2.

We're just trying to get our mojo back and get our confidence back so when we start off this season we can compete with that other Big Three that's out there trying to take our crown away from us. He just had a hand injury, that's easy to come back from. Racking Up the DNPs I sat out last night because I drained my knee on Wednesday to get the fluid out.

It hurt a little bit. They shot the needle in me to put the numbing medicine in and then they went and drained it and then they put some cortisone in to break up whatever is in there so I can get ready for the season. Then I missed the game in Philly because of my toe. It's a phobia I have. It's one of the phobias that gives me the Gilbertology or whatever you want to call it. When I was little, whenever I got out of the shower I never wanted to touch the floor because once you touch the floor your feet are dirty again.

So in the shower I used to put my socks on already without drying them off. And I had to have a new pair of socks every day. Every time I take a pair of socks off, I have to put a new pair on.

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A brand new pair. Since I was little I always needed a brand new pair of socks. So I had no clothes, but I had a million pairs of socks. So anyway, what happened in Philly was I was starting to get athlete's foot from all the moisture that collected from putting my slippers on around the house as soon as I got out of the shower.

It started aching me so I had to sit out and let them dry for two days. It's one of those weird, kind of nasty stories like, "Ugh, nobody cares about your toes," but it sat me out a game. Funny Story A fan sent a pair of his grandmother's underwear over to me when I was on the bench during a game the other day.

He wanted me to sign them. It was a little awkward, but it was funny and cute -- kind of. In a weird way. That's something you're not expecting. You're expecting to sign a video game and you have a pair of panties on your lap. Clearing Something Up When I told Complex.

If something did happen weird where Antawn left and we lost our team and it wasn't a good situation for me to come back, those are the four cities that I would want to play in.

I would want to go back home and play in L. I would want to go to San Antonio because they're a championship-caliber team -- same thing with Dallas.

Houston is on the come-up with Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. Three out of the four are contenders right now. That was my reasoning. It wasn't like I said I want to play for the Hawks. You know, nothing against the Hawks but I'm talking about going to a championship team. I would have thrown Miami in there, but at the end of the day, if Shaq leaves that team breaks up.

You never know, but the four teams I mentioned have a solid base. If anything happens with the Wizards, that's my Plan B. DeShawn's Tattoo He has that big "STEVENSON" on his back.

I've seen a lot of players that are getting their names on their backs. I guess it's a way of them letting people know what their names are when they're on the beach -- I don't know. DeShawn is adding the No. I guess when he's swimming or something, having fun in the pool, everybody will know who that is.

It's not for me though, I'll stick with the tiger. A Couple Announcements With the Gazo the Prankstathe cartoon, for everybody who wants to try out to have their voice on the show my next blog post will have more details on it. I'm going to set that up for next week to have it up and running. Right now, since Marc Ecko hasn't replied about the Barry Bonds ball to me I'm going to do something different about it. It looks like Coca-Cola has dropped out as one of the color ways for the GilIIZerosso I'm going to do a shoe, the Barry Bonds shoe.

It's going to be the San Francisco colors and it's only coming out in the San Francisco Bay area. It's going to be a giveaway, it's not going to be sold.

I'm going to buy probably like 8, pairs of shoes and when I come to town, I'm giving them away for free. This is still in the making. Please, for all the San Francisco people that want the shoe to happen, write to adidas and let them know how excited you are for it so they can start making it.

Since Marc Ecko doesn't want to give the ball back to San Francisco, I'll give you in a shoe. Adventures of Chuck and Larry I have a little problem. His name is Nick Young and he has a sidekick named Dominic McGuire. Our two little rookies. There's always a rookie who comes in and challenges for the goofball of the year. Well Nick's already won that. This is one of the funniest kids I've ever met.

The problem isn't that he's funny, but that he challenges me in pranks. For the past week, he's been getting a taste of what I'm about. I made him bring me some McDonald's, I wanted a chicken sandwich at like 12 o'clock at night when we were in Philly. I actually didn't want the sandwich, I just wanted him out of his room.

I went into his hotel room and messed with all his stuff. Then before that during the Philadelphia game I took the keys from his car and shipped them back to Washington D. We're going to paint it pink and it's going to say "I Love Dominic" on it. You know, his little sidekick. We've been going back and forth, but for some reason he doesn't get it.

He likes to play. On Thursday we had an off day and he went in my locker and took my iPod and a pair of my shoes. So I went over his place and I gave him one chance and one chance only to give me back my iPod and shoes and he didn't act fast enough so I got him good. So they start threatening me like, "You'll see what happens, you'll see what happens. We're going to the store right now.

They got the paint ball guns, the masks, the gear, everything. So I was sitting in my house playing Halo and I'm looking at my surveillance camera and I see Dominic and Nick creep up to my property all decked out. They parked across the street and they're running towards my house wearing masks and helmets. They came around the side of the house, jumped the wall, and came in through the garage. But by the time they did all that, I already was out of the house and jumped the other wall.

They were in the house looking for me and I was across the street flattening their tires so when they decided to leave they'd be on flats. They looked around the house and couldn't find me so they came outside and saw me across the street flattening their tires.

I called my friend and had him come pick me up and take me back to the house. When they left the house, they stole my daddy's toaster! I like making toast! So I told them, Since you don't want to give my toaster back, it's war. He wanted his stuff back, I wanted my stuff back so I told them that we were going to have a paintball shootout. We all went to the store like Sports Authority and bought all these paintball guns, like eight or nine new ones because I already had threethen we bought the CO 2 cartridges and like 12, paintballs and I even bought a couple paintball grenades.

We tried to make the teams fair. It was Nick and Dominic and then Nick recruited last year's rookie, Andray Blatche. I thought Andray had enough of the pranks, but I guess he didn't. Andray brought his two friends, to make it five on their team. My team was me, my friend John and three guys who were at my house hooking up stereo equipment.

So we finished buying everything and were in the store parking lot and Nick was mad that I had all the CO 2 so he started to take some of mine. I was like, "Put the CO 2 down or I'm going to shoot you with the paintball gun. I said, "Dominic, do not close that door. I go to Nick, "You have three seconds to put the CO 2 back. I got him like six times. So he's laying in the car all mad saying, "I don't want to play no more. I tell them that the shootout is planned for 12 o'clock midnight in my backyard because it's pure black back there.

You can't see nothing. So I tell them, "12 o'clock, be in my backyard and we're going at it five on five. And when John and Adam showed up at their place they tried to ambush them, thinking that I was going to come too. So John and Adam had to run out of there. So it's like They were already in the backyard. They showed up an hour early.

So we hurried up and put on all of our gear and snuck outside through some of the vents in the house. And then we had a nice, good old paintball shootout in the dark. They ran out of CO 2 pretty quick because my team had most of it so one of Andray's friends yells, "Aww, it's not fair!

But one the kids was a little too heavy. His name is Jamar. Jamar couldn't get over the wall because Jamar has been eating one too many Twinkies.

So Jamar got stuck in my yard with the five of us. We gave him the chance to walk out like a man, or cry like a girl. He cried like a little girl while he was walking and running while we were shooting paintballs at him. I told him, "Hey, come in the lion's den, you're bound to get hit. We played for about an hour and a half. I haven't had that much fun in a long time. What people don't realize is that when you're in the NBA, you lose stuff like that.

You're not in there with kids, you're in there with grown men that have families. By having these young kids on the team, it's fun for me because I get to have that childhood that I lost. I lost it when I came into the NBA when I got picked No. That's the moral of the story: Introducing Gazo the Pranksta Posted by Gilbert Arenas on Oct. ET PERMALINK He's just like me, only a cartoon.

Illustration courtesy of mbox communications Animated Arenas This blog here is targeting my comedic and cartoon lovers. I know how everybody heard I was creating a cartoon, well this is me officially saying that I'm creating a cartoon called Gazo the Pranksta.

Gazo stands for Gilbert Arenas G-A and Zero Z-O. It's about a group of kids who are the out crowd in high school.

You know, there's more 'outs' then there are 'ins. We're talking about the other 90 that nobody pays any attention to. That's who really runs the school. The premise is five kids ' all different nationalities ' that come together and basically save the school. For the older people who are out of school, everything that went on in high school that you can remember and for all the kids who are in high school living it now, those are the topics that are going to be in the cartoon.

So if you've seen Superbadyeah ' it's sort of like that. It's an adult cartoon that's in the same range as Family Guy and South Park.

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It's with those guys. Anywhere from years old, I don't think you want to watch. A station hasn't picked it up because I have to finish developing everything and start writing. I'm trying to get young writers from UCLA and USC that are ambitious, funny, clever and edgy. The voiceovers are why I'm blogging. I'm going to do a casting call for the voices of the five main characters. Five people around wherever you're coming from, wherever you live, I have a chance for you to be part of something that I think will be part of the future.

And I call the future, 'Generation Zero. So I don't want to put an age limit on the voice, but I want parents to know that it's an adult cartoon so they might be saying words that you do not accept as a parent or don't want your kids saying. I wanted to get that out there. So when I say I'm looking for voices and you think your son has a funny voice and you think I might choose him for one of the voices, I want you to know that there might be language you don't want your kid saying.

I just don't want to cast somebody and get all the recording done and have parents freak out if there is a curse word in the script. We were going to launch this earlier, but I've been watching a lot of cartoons lately and Gazo wasn't where I wanted it to be.

I don't want to just put any product out there. Check out my website, www. For all the people who are trying to buy website URLs with similar names, don't bother. I already got them all locked down. This is going to be the first interactive cartoon. If people out there don't know what interactive means, it means when you watch this cartoon you better pay attention because something that's in the cartoon might be a part of real life too.

OK, they told me not to say this, but I got to. You know how like when you watch a cartoon and they give out a phone number and it's like, '? And somebody might pick up. So, if you see a website on there, that website will be created. I had an animated introduction featuring the mother of one of the characters that I was going to put up on the site, but I still want to fine tune it.

But I don't want people to see that part of the cartoon and think, 'That's it? I don't want people to look at that snippet and be like, 'Well, this isn't funny,' before we get our new writers on board. A group called mbox communications, we did some promotions together before and they actually run my website, Gilsarena, they just thought that with the creativity that I come with and the way I love watching cartoons that we should get together and try to launch a cartoon of our own.

We worked on it the whole summer and worked with characters and stuff and I just thought it was a great opportunity, so that's where this concept came in at. The way we're going to hopefully do it is launch each episode on the website every week like it is a regular TV show anyway, and we might buy a cable channel and put it on TV too, just so everybody starts to know what time it comes on every week until an actual station picks it up ' a station like Comedy Central, because it will fit their programming.

So each week, I'll either blog about it or you'll just start to know that on a certain day at a certain time there will be a new Gazo the Pranksta episode coming on.

I can tell you the first storyline, it's about a girl's 'Sweet I can't tell you anything else, that's why you got to watch. It's been a hectic summer and I want to get this out before the season starts because once the season starts, that's when the writers will take the cartoon over and I focus on basketball while they focus on writing. I know this concept can work.

I play Halo all day and those kids, those video gamers, are the 'out crowd. I had about seven or eight kids from high schools all over and I got back some funny stuff. Like I said, this is 'Generation Zero.

I don't want them on my cartoon, we're going to make fun of them on my cartoon. Down the line I want to have a part on the website where you can throw your ideas about high school out to me and if they're good enough, they'll be picked up and become a part of an episode. Check out NBA LIVE 08 NBA LIVE 08 is out. Me and Chris Paul have an unspoken rivalry right now because my man who I work out with in the summer and I are fighting for sales. I don't want to tell you what game he's on so I don't want to give him free promotion.

I know I'm on NBA LIVE and I had commercials and he didn't have commercials. You need to go out and buy the game that has commercials with it, because those commercials are cool.

They ranked me a 91 in the game, but I didn't want to go into some board room and demand that they make me a 95 because I'm on the cover ' fine, I'm not going to lie, I did do that. But they told me it was too late. If you're playing as me and hit the Hot Spots button, the whole floor turns red. That means wherever you see red, that's where I can shoot. My range is the whole court. About the Bonds Ball I have a real big fan in Oakland who caught the ball to beat Ruth. His name is Tom.

Whenever we go West, he goes from city to city and travels to watch me play. He's been doing this since I came in the league. He goes to Portland, he goes to Seattle, Golden State, Lakers, Clippers ' he just drives and goes to all of them.

Well Tom's brother caught the ball. He said he would give me that ball for free so I could tell Marc Ecko that he can switch out No. Tom just wants all 20 pairs of the GilIIZero 's actually. So I have some fans out there joining the cause. I apologize to Marc Ecko for making the offer the way I did, but that's the only way to get stuff across to people is if you just burst out sometimes.

Marc Ecko, I would really love the opportunity to sit down and negotiate with you about this ball and see if I can convince you to give it to me without taking it to the Hall of Fame marked. Don't Call me a "Cheater" Something like websites are calling me a cheater, and they don't know what cheating is. Let's break down the word 'cheating' in video games. Then I'm going to break down glitches and then just great fans.

In Halo 2 what cheating was, it was called 'modding. But you didn't really get your rank up because Bungie kicks you off, so you got your friends' ranks up. Anybody who got in a party with the 'modder' had their ranks up because the 'modder' is going to win every game.

Or, you can do what everybody else has been doing to cheat: Or, they'll just 'lag' you out of a game. Somehow they just intercept your connection and 'lag' you out. For basketball video games, cheating is when somebody goes to a bookstore and buys a book on cheat codes and they put the little cheat codes in and all of the sudden they can steal every pass and make every shot and do all that stuff.

For football video games, I don't know what cheating is because I don't play them. There are glitches in Halo. You can super bounce and you can double shot. In basketball video games, back in there was some glitch where you could put a full-court press on and you set right in front of the guy who was taking the ball out of bounds and every time he tried to make the pass, it got stolen.

The team inbounding the ball couldn't even get past half court. It's called a glitch. As for a glitch in football video games, I don't know because I don't play. The glitch in Halo 3 isn't a real glitch like in the basketball game, it's a glitch in the system. There's this thing called experience points. You get experience points for winning games. Before anybody knew about winning social games, they played ranked games.

You play ranked games to get your medals up. Then one day I came across a guy who had an eagle by his Halo profile and he only had 50 ranked games. I was like, 'Wait I minute, I have ranked games, I don't have an eagle! He said, 'You play social games and you get the points too. What I do is just play two-on-two with my friends and they just lose to me and it gets my experience points up.

He said, 'I don't care about experience points because at the end of the day, I'm still good. I still don't understand it. So for all the Halo people who don't understand what I'm talking about, this is just like if you were playing Madden online and you find a kid you can beat down on and you keep sending him challenges so you can get wins. It's the same thing. Or in basketball games, if you're playing somebody online and beat him by 30 points and he says, 'Rematch?

That's all that is. So let me explain this eagle thing I wanted. It's a little patch that goes onto a shirt. It has nothing to do with your skill level. Whatever your skill level is ' 32 or 50 or five ' that's what you are. Your experience points are just about the games you won. The guy who taught me the trick played only like 50 ranked games and social games. I have a level 42 for ranked games. I have to play ranked games against ranked people to get better. Nobody is going to help me win there, because it's a ranked game and nobody wants to lose a ranked game.

But a social game doesn't affect your rank. So when you have a major, a double major or a triple major or a burger dot or whatever they call that eagle thingall it is is for show. So when I go into a match and my opponent sees that eagle, they'll be like, 'Dang, you play a lot. They're not going to say, 'Dang, you're good! Your major is just for show. So if you have an eagle and only have won like 10 ranked games, they're going to be like, 'Man, you're garbage.

I didn't make him do it, I didn't ask for it. There's been thousands of kids who have lost to me. Most of the time it was because of my talent, the other ones were because I said I'd give them a jersey! If you beat Halo you can collect these skulls. And if you get all 13 skulls you get a special helmet and outfit for your guy. So for the first couple days, everybody was beating the game but nobody was getting the special helmet because they couldn't find the 13th skull. One kid cracked it.

Only one person cracked it. That one person told somebody else, who told somebody else, who told somebody else and then what happened was the one person who knew how to get the skull called up a group of friends, invited them to join his party and told them that they can play with him and that he'd go through all the boards and find all the skulls and do all the work and since they'll all be joining in with him, they'll get the achievement points too.

So he went through all the boards and it only took him like five or six hours because he already knew how to do it, and everybody in his party got the special helmet and didn't do anything for it. If that's not cheating, then what my fan did for me shouldn't be cheating either. We're not cheating anybody. We're not slowing down somebody else's modem or doing something else to beat them. This was just my fan saying, 'Hey, I want you to have the eagle.

I'll give you the eagle by losing games to you. I can't help it if Agent Arenas is a popular guy online and gets offers like that. Come on, there are people out there that have double shot modded controllers, they have modded Xboxes, they have this new thing and I'm not even sure how you do it where you put a rubber band around your controller handles so it will go only right and if it goes right the whole time something happens where the game won't cut off and you keep winning or something like that.

Who is finding out about this stuff? Who is sitting there putting rubber bands on their controllers? At least I'm there playing the game. I play Halo some days for 14 hours. If I play that much, obviously I know how to play. A guy online told me how he got his experience points up and I said, 'OK, I want that too. It's not like I'm not playing all the time. I mean, I've sponsored Final Boss for the last couple years and they're the best team in Halo.

I'm too proud to jump in a game with them to help me get my rank up. If I really wanted to win that bad, all I would have to do is jump in a game with Final Boss when they go up against all of the top kids in the game and just sit there, eat my cereal and watch as they win every game and get my rank up.

How hard is that? But I didn't do it. This is like in Mario Brothers where if you jumped on a shell and hit it against the stairs and forex currency trading seminars uk long as you time it right, you keep getting the 1 UP and have infinity lives. Same thing with Contra. You do the up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right and now you have the infinity ammo and infinity lives.

But if I'm playing Streetfighter, and he lets me win, why is that considered cheating? You should be mad at that kid for giving me the victory. Don't be mad at me for accepting the victory. What should I be like, 'I know you lost, but I'm not going to take this win, sorry. Sure, 80 of the wins were against my friend, but hey, he's easy.

It wasn't about skills, it was for show. When somebody wanted to play me, they would see my record and automatically think I was good which I wasbut it was the point that it intimidated them. The same thing with how to make money talisman online eagle thing in Halo 3.

If you see that eagle on your screen when you're going to play me, you're automatically going to think I'm good. All that happened was that I went from a single major to a double major because he said he'd lose games to me. Know what was funny, I got all my Halo friends together and we challenged all the kids that were telling me I was sorry, and that I suck and that I'm a cheater and we played a game against them.

My team was called the 'Bad Guys' because apparently I'm the bad guy for accepting wins from somebody. So we played my haters last night and they got destroyed. Oh man, they got destroyed. Half the kids, they're not even mad. At first I got so many messages that were angry. One kid was like, 'You're a disgrace to Halo. I don't mean to be the bad guy here, but, I play 14 hours a day. I know the rules and what cheating is. What I'm doing is not cheating. Go check the leaderboard.

That's all my skill. The leaderboard doesn't have anything to do with experience points, it just has to do with experience. Microsoft must have sold millions of copies of Halo and I'm still ranked No. My swag is phenomenal right now, remember that. Like Kanye said, 'You can't tell tell me nothing, riiighhht. This is your five days of fame.

PTI picked it up and now I'm mentioning you in my blog. This is the only way you're going to get famous because it's not going to be through Halo. I looked at your rank, you aren't very good. You might not be skilled at the game, but I know what your skill is -- looking at everybody else's accounts to see who's cheating. So keep it up baby, I'm rooting for you. One more thing, a big thanks to Aircalbev for supporting me in this time of tragedy on the Bungie message board of hatred towards Agent Arenas.

I also want to give a shout out to some of my fallen solidiers - Cashis Clayis and Baby Jesus - for helping through these turbulent times and I would like to thank God for giving me the man power and the heart and mind to stay up and keep playing Halo to the best of my ability. Now I got to do the "Marion Jones" thing: Sorry to all my friends and family who believed in me. I disgraced my Halo friends' names. I'm a beast in Halo 3. I am teaching "cheating" lessons at 12 midnight, every night on how to be a professional cheater on Halo.

I'm just kidding, I shouldn't have said that. Preseason has Started It was my first game since April you know, but if Fantasy Basketball was started right now I'd probably be in the top five because I had four steals, four assists, three rebounds and one turnover in 20 minutes.

But for real, I did all right for my first game out there. I was just trying to get a rhythm. I moved really well, I wasn't dragging my leg. I was running and you know, playing up and down. That was a how much money can you make donating to a sperm bank 20 minutes for me.

The shot wasn't falling. I ended up 2-for and I was 1-for-8 starting off the game but I was just trying to get a rhythm and trying to get back to what I do. I took quick shots, some good ones, some bad ones, but all in all its about trying to hurry up and catch your rhythm before the season starts so you have to do some things that you normally don't do just to get a feel for it.

For the Cleveland Cavs fans who watched it, we're a thorn. Those are two teams that have that blood. It's not that bad blood where you want to fight them every time, it's that competitive blood where both teams think they're better than each other and you want to win. You want to win in the preseason and you want to win in the regular season. At the end of the day, we know who we want to face off against in the playoffs: You want to play the exciting teams that have the javascript onchange dynamic drop down type of talent and the same type of up-and-downess I don't even know if that's a word.

You want a team that plays at the same pace as you. If you're an up-and-down team you don't want to play against a team like Chicago and grind it out. Using a Marbury phrase, 'great kudos' to Chigago, but that's the one team you don't want to play in the first round. If you play them in the first round, most likely you aren't going to get further then the second round because they will beat you up so bad that you vanguard emerging markets stock index fund be tired and it will take everything out of you just to beat them that series.

I remember them in when we had to play against them. It took all of our energy out to beat them and when we got to the second round against Miami we didn't have anything. That's the one team that you can say that you don't want to face in the playoffs and that's Chicago. Get Well Soon, Etan I know everybody by now heard the bad news about Etan.

It's one of those things where you're glad the NBA has stepped up and given these tests in the preseason every year. I used to think it was pointless to run on a treadmill and be monitored. I mean, I've been working out the whole summer and now you want me to run on a treadmill and put sticky things all over me and have me run for five minutes?

But now that you see the results of what the tests can catch you're like, 'Oh my God, this is serious. Etan is one of the healthiest guys I've known in my career. He takes care of his body, he eats right ' I've never seen him eat anything bad. I always ask him what he eats whenever I'm on a diet because I only see him eating fruits and vegetables and he takes all the healthy food from the plane. So when a guy that is this healthy has a problem out of nowhere, it shows you that you have to check on your bodies.

He had the surgery yesterday, they said it went well. You just have to give your utmost thoughts and prayers to his family. This is something where if it wouldn't have got caught, it could be his life in jeopardy. It could have been like Len Bias or it could have been like Jason Collier. My words to him were, 'You don't need to think negative thoughts.

Don't worry about basketball right now. You're going to live a regular life and once you're feeling healthy enough, that's when you start playing basketball again. I had a friend in high school, named Eddie.

We called him 'chicken wing' because he was skinnier than Tayshaun Prince expiration of a 5 minute binary options indicator he came into the NBA.

There was five of us and we had our own little team when we were years old. Well Eddie used to always say that he could dunk. Every time we'd show up to the park and he'd already be there he'd be like, 'Oh man, I dunked it today! I dunked it today! It started when we were 14 but then we were sophomores, juniors, seniors and none of those years he could dunk the ball. So when I went off to college and the summer before my freshman year, I got a phone call. My friend was on the other line and he's like, 'Yo, Eddie passed away.

So I was like, 'What the hell are you laughing for? I totally forgot about him dying and I was like, 'Eddie dunked?! You got to be how to get gold fast in dragonvale me.

He really dunked it?! He died right there on the court we grew up on.

For a kid who plays basketball, if I had to pass away, that would be the way I would want to pass away -- like if I won the championship and I was so happy that I passed out right there. That's a memory that I can always live with.

He didn't pass away from a gun shot or this or that. He passed away doing something he loved. It wasn't a feel bad story when I first heard.

I was so excited that he finally proved us wrong and he dunked, and he was so happy that he finally proved us wrong and he dunked that he passed away from it. His favorite player was Allen Iverson so we buried him with an Allen Iverson jersey and No.

Back in NYC Posted by Gilbert Arenas on Sept. ET PERMALINK One of my superfans, Doug Wallis Jr. Last week I was in New York singapore stock exchange half day trading my shoes, this week I'm in the Big Apple with my video game.

Actually this started on Wednesday in D. I had to wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning. But see, we have to rewind back even before that because it's important to the story. On Tuesday, Halo 3 came out. So I was playing at Sixteen hours straight of just Halo 3. Then I went to sleep and had to wake up at 6: After that I had to come up to New York to do a commercial for ESPN with Dwight Howard, Deron Williams, Mike Breen and Bill Walton.

They wanted me there a 5: So I got there at 6: So I'm thinking, 'Oh, man. He got woken up. They woke him up and gave him his shirt to wear so he could get ready despite the fact that he got there at 11 in the morning and this was 10 at night. He was like, 'Man, I could have gone back to my hotel!

I was out of there by We had a good time talking about Stephon Marbury's interview again, because I didn't know he came out with a Part 2 and a Part 3, talking about, 'They tell me I'm crazzzzzy! So we did the commercial and I had a great time and I was trying to go to something that DJ Clue was throwing with Budweiser and King Magazine and I just couldn't go because I know I had to be at the NBA Store early in the morning and once I get sleepy, I get cranky and everything gets dry and I don't have the same kind of energy I should so I decided to just stay in the room.

Yesterday I did everything from BET to SpikeTV to of course ESPN to Fantasy Basketball with Matthew Berry. So I was all over the world in the Big Apple. I had a lot of fun and even won two forex rand pound of NBA LIVE 08 on the Wii. I had a copy of the game, but I don't any more. I have to wait until October 2nd now just like everybody else.

I actually gave my copy out to a lucky fan that was waiting since 9: I was going to give out three copies, but I had such good fans that I think I gave out about six or seven.

So those six or seven kids have it before me, because I gave my copy out. Plus I gave out vouchers to get the game for free on October 2nd when it is officially released. Seeing Fans in My Jersey I used to complain about it two years ago that I couldn't find a Wizards jersey of mine, this and that. I remember one day I was coming from the track and it was cold outside. We were going through Howard University and I saw a kid in a black Arenas jersey and I'm like, 'It's cold outside and he's wearing that?

I got a fan! I had the actual Joker, Jack Nicholson smile on that one. I'm just so excited that people are digging me and supporting what I'm doing. Open Workout Today I'm putting all the workouts and everything I did all summer into one day so all the media can come check out and see that I'm healthy.

I'm not sure what the full schedule will be. I know its going to have bike riding, I know it's going to have my stock brokers that trade penny stocks workout 1997 make money lyrics macklemore ryan lewis traduction the parachutes behind me for resistance, if we can get the pool I'll do the pool workout, I might break out the 1, makes early in the morning and then the full basketball workout at night.

Plus the weight lifting and the bleacher workout. Season Around the Corner Physically I'm ready and mentally I'm there because I've put myself in situations where I can put myself in that mind frame again. Meaning that whenever we play pickup games, I don't wear shorts and a jersey, I wear a sweat suit.

I wear the heavy, wool sweat suit to simulate the fourth quarter feel of exhaustion and I go games where I decide I'm only going to shoot the game winner, so it makes me think of the game winner. I didn't get to think about shooting 'quality shots' for so long that I had to get my mind back to where broker broker currency forex forex forex knowforex.info software trade was before I was injured.

Prediction Time Oh man, everybody is jumping on this Celtics band wagon. I was going to go prediction-free for the whole year, but When does the forex market close for christmas guess I'm going to break that now. Now, if anybody remembers back when I got drafted, I got a report back that the reason I dropped so far in the draft was that Jim O'Brien of the Celtics said that I was too immature and that I wasn't ready for the NBA.

What really happened was that I had an Achilles injury and I went back to L. He didn't like that. So word came back to me that he was trashing me and it put this knife through my chest about the Boston Celtics. Back in the day when I would day dream I thought that if I could score points against any team it would be the Boston Celtics.

Now, I knew it would never happen, but if I could do one thing in the NBA it would be to score against Boston. So anyway, since everybody is back on the Boston bandwagon it brought back old memories. On November 2nd, we're going to go into that building, we're opening up Boston.

Right now I'm telling the Boston fans: You guys are going to lose. It's not going to be a victory for Boston. You might as well just cheer for me, because Boston isn't winning in Boston for the season opener.

Marc Ecko, I Have an Offer refined sunflower oil price trend You I normally don't get into conversations like this, but this kind of hit a nerve in my body as an athlete. This whole Marc Ecko buying the Barry Bonds ball to put an asterisk over it: I just think it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

Who are you as a person to take away somebody's legacy because you don't like him as a person? Forget that he is Barry Bonds and forget his records. He was 'alleged' of doing steroids. This is America, just because you're 'alleged' of doing something doesn't mean he actually did it and until he is proven guilty, you shouldn't have the right to be the judge and jury.

Just because you have the money don't go buying up people's history to destroy it. If you're going to get Barry Bonds' ball, why don't you go get Mark McGwire's homerun balls that got put into the Hall of Fame and Sammy Sosa's corked bat too?

I don't think as a fan of sports that you have the right to taint this man's legacy. This man has a kid. When his kid grows up he's going to hate you as a person because you decided to be this super, superhero to go put an asterisk sign over his dad's legacy.

I just felt appalled by it because, what if somebody decides to ban the hyperbaric chambers tomorrow? Everybody knows that I used the hyperbaric tent last year and I scored 60 points against the Lakers during the season I was using the tent. Now, the Hall of Fame has my shoes from that game.

What if somebody decides to take my shoes and put an asterisk sign on them now? I think it's just drawing graffiti on somebody else's legacy. Before you go and destroy another man's career, I'd rather buy the ball back from you and give it to somebody who really, truly wants the ball for what it is. So, Marc Ecko, I want the ball to give it to a real fan. As a human, you should be ashamed of yourself for outbidding somebody just to do wrong to somebody's property.

If people don't understand what I'm talking about, this is the easiest way I can explain it. Anybody out there that has ever taken Creatine, that's a popular substance, if they all of the sudden consider Creatine to be a steroid that means all you guys that took it are dirty so if you ever do anything in life, you're tainted.

Anything you do in life you're going to have somebody like Marc Ecko wanting to buy whatever you do in life to put an asterisk sign by it. So if you get a promotion and he decides he wants this guy fired because he did Creatine back inthat's how you should feel. Just because he is one of the most hated guys in the world because of 'allegedly' doing steroids, I don't think you should take away his legacy.

The day he broke the record, he wasn't on steroids. That's how I look at it. People say that he's dirty, but the last time I checked anything out I saw that corked bats, spitting on balls, Vaseline on balls and stealing signals, that's all cheating too. If they're doing steroids, I mean there have been plenty stephen cooper stock trading system review players who I thought have done steroids, but I'm not going to buy their stuff up just to put an asterisk on it.

I think it's giving the wrong idea to people. The fans that voted for the asterisk, I think they're representing sports wrong because at the time that he broke these records, he wasn't on steroids.

If you want to buy some records that were broken by somebody who was accused of steroids and admitted to using steroids, go buy Arnold Schwarzenegger's.

Go buy back his trophies and medals and put asterisks on them. That's a man who actually admitted to using steroids. I just think it's wrong. In sports, what people don't realize is, you're trying to do everything you can to get that extra advantage. By me using the hyperbaric chamber, I'm using it as an advantage. If they ban it tomorrow, will people be looking at me as a dirty player?

I'm not saying steroids are good or bad here. I mean, I think it's a cowardly way to enhance your performance don't get me wrong, but my issue is that if the guy hasn't been proven guilty, you shouldn't taint him.

You can't go around trying to save the world from this ball. Give me a break. What if I buy your company and throw it in the trash because I say it's tainted? How stupid would you feel? And for people who still aren't feeling me; What if a kid comes and graffiti's your house. How would you feel? You worked your butt off to live in the place you live in and some not-so-smart people come and graffiti your house.

That's what I feel about that ball. You're just tagging it up. Let a fan, somebody who appreciates the game still, no matter what, accept that ball. If Barry Bonds is found guilty, I'll give it back to you.

I'm not going to let you go around like some little superhero. I'll put it in my hall of fame. The Gilbert Hall of Fame for Athletes no matter forex factory alpari uk you did. I know I got off on a little tangent, but Marc, who are you to discredit Barry Bonds' legacy? He is a man first before being a seven-time MVP. Marc, what if someone tried to take away what you did in this world as a fashion pioneer?

How would that make you feel as a man? I would love to buy the ball away from you before you destroy history. I'm a collector of basketball jerseys and I would be honored to have the ball in when does lse market close personal hall of fame and I know there are real fans out there who both are and aren't Barry Bonds supporters who don't want to see history getting marked up.

I'm not defending steroids users by any means. I defending sports in history. Introducing the GilIIZero Posted by Gilbert Arenas on Sept. ET PERMALINK In honor of the Saints, I 50 pips daily breakout forex system have to nbc universal stock ticker symbol out these black and gold beauties on February 25 in New Orleans.

For all the shoeheads out there, allow me to introduce you to the adidas GilIIZero. I was calling them the Gil 20s, because that's how it's pronounced, but when you go to buy them in the store which I know you will it will say GilIIZero on the box.

I just wanted to clear that up so you don't get confused and think Boyz II Men has a shoe or something. There are going to be 20 different versions of my shoe next year. Most of them are limited editions. I have 18 different color ways and then two 'inline' versions, you know, that meet all the uniform standards of David Stern and the NBA. GilIIZero Release Dates 1 Scores for Forex near mg road Foundation Kickoff Event That's my foundation that I have in D.

It's a whole little campaign we're doing. Coming out right in time for the holidays. I stock market clubs texas roadhouse push the release date up though because the game comes out on October 2.

That's for all the Redskins fans because they play the Cowboys on the following day, a Sunday. So all infants and boys under the age of 10, this is for you. This one is for my son. So they're going to have a a 24" vinyl figure toy of me with the shoe and it's going to be released in China. So this shoe is going to come out in Houston vs.

I'll also wear it in Chicago, because there are a lot of Cubans in Chicago. I don't know how, but trust me, there are. Greg Oden is outso Portland might get that taken away from them.

They might get it taken away, I'm not sure. Portland fans, that's a question mark. It's a nice-looking shoe too. I might have to switch it. That might become Denver with A. So those colors are the Lakers colors. Heat April 4, Wow, four releases against the Heat.

Somebody likes the Heat at adidas. Check out UNDRCRWN's home page. This is the Benihana collab. Time for you all to decide. Should I drop this shoe in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Memphis, Orlando or How much money does nba referees make a year Tell me what city should get it. The Background Story This was a concept that adidas came up with last spring after I wore a special edition shoe on a West Coast trip when I hit the game winner against Seattle.

Everybody was asking me like, 'Where did you get those from? They're a special edition that I just have. They're not out in stores. I told adidas how forex com premium account went crazy for that special pair and so we came up with the idea: You know, have them come out in different cities, have all different release dates.

It's never been done before. It will be something different and let's see how people respond to it. I think people are going to like the colors, but they're also going to like the shoe. This is more of a casual, kicking it shoe but you can also play basketball in it, because I'm going to be doing it.

Tinkering with the Design I don't want to kill the designer that was in charge of the shoe when this process started, because I understand it's difficult, but you know me, I'm an honest person so I'm going to tell you the truth of how it went down.

When they first showed me the shoe, we were in a room at a hotel, and they came out with the shoe. It was supposed to be a team shoe, that's why the shoe was actually called the 'TS Lightswitch Gil' TS stands for 'Team Signature' but we switched it to GilIIZero.

It was supposed to be a team shoe because we're doing a whole brotherhood campaign, so they wanted us all in the same shoe. Being a young player, I was like, 'I can understand what you guys are doing, but Kevin Garnett has already had nine signature shoes.

T-Mac had nine signature shoes. I'm just now getting on the scene. Can I get my own testing semi strong form efficiency of stock market Can I get the Data entry jobs from home toowoomba Zero, part two?

For me, as a shoe kid, I'm like team shoes don't sell. They sell to teamsbut for a kid on the street, they don't want to wear something a whole UCLA or Oregon or Arizona team is wearing.

Nobody wants to wear that just in different colors. So when they showed me the shoe, they told me, 'The other four players loved this shoe and this is a great shoe, the buyers are buying it. Because I'm not going to wear this shoe. So I looked at the shoe and I straight killed it. I killed it so much I think I made everybody uncomfortable. How do I go from the Gil Zero to this? That was my whole argument. Nobody is going to wear this shoe. So at All-Star weekend I was actually downstairs in the lobby of my hotel with the prototype of the shoe and going up to fans and asking, 'Would you buy this shoe?

Would you buy this shoe? I hope you're not wearing that in the All-Star game. I just wanted to get your opinion. So through all that process of tearing down and getting rid of and complaining and complaining, this is what we have.

Now we have the Lamborghini of shoes. Not to say Hondas are bad, but we have the Lamborghini of shoes now. I think everybody is going to dig this shoe. Designing shoes is very hard because for some reason, as an athlete, you never meet the designer until the shoe is already made.

Then you have to complain about the things you don't like. So right now, I'm complaining about my shoe for next year. We already had that meeting because they said, 'Well, if we get him early and then he kills us again, we have time. I don't want other shoe companies to try to jack my style now. My swag is too phenomenal. If any other basketball player out there wants to compete with my shoes, go ahead, we can have a 50 and Kanye right here. We can start how much money does nba referees make a year up, baby.

I'll be the bad guy. We can have a sneaker war. If you think about it, there are probably about signature player shoes in the NBA that come out each season. Next year, I'm going to have 20 just by myself! So when all those other ugly shoes come out, you know that a new Employee incentive stock option agreement will be on its way shortly.

Next week is my NBA LIVE 08 blog post. I'll be in New York next week for my EA Sports press conference. I'll blog from New York. Fellas, Heed My Advice Posted by Gilbert Arenas on Sept. ET PERMALINK That's my "get me a sub" face.

What was funny was Calvin used to come to me after we played Miami and was like, 'Man, by minute, you scored the most points on GP. Do you have a problem with GP? You know, he's The Glove. So all that comes together and he starts pushing up and you get nervous with the ball and now you're on the other end and you have to stick him on defense and you're thinking, 'I'm stronger than him,' and he's posting you up and then he takes on the center because there's a switch and he posts the center up and still scores easy and you're like, 'Oh shoot, what the hell is this?

I've never been so happy to get subbed out of a game. It was the only game ever where a coach subbed me out and I ran to the bench happy. So coach subbed me out, right, and I'm like, 'Woooo. I think I can play against him! So, during a free throw we were both standing next to each other at half court and he was like, 'You're lucky I'm no A.

You know, I couldn't talk trash to him, you can't talk trash to him. There was nothing I had to say, I just had to try to score as many points as I could on him to try to make him try to feel the way he made me feel that day. Now I go after the rookies whenever I get the chance just because of what GP did to me. You know, I used to fear him. Whenever I was working out I was thinking, 'This is to get ready for GP. I got to see GP four times, GP four times'' And then when he went to Milwaukee I was like, 'Yes!

Only GP two times, GP two times'' Relationships I know everybody thinks life is perfect for an NBA player, but people get in arguments and I do too.

Here's the real story guys, of why I missed the EA Sports event in Canada. It started out real simple.

My girlfriend had to drive me to practice in the morning to go work out and I was looking in the car and I guess my daughter dragged sticks and rocks from outside and there was yogurt and stuff all on the floor in the backseat. So I'm thinking to myself, 'Man, this car is filthy! So now the cat was out of the bag and I was like, 'Are you ever going to clean the car?

It's been sitting in the garage for two months with no tags. So I'm like, 'If you register your car, then I can get my dad's car back and my dad's car would be spotless and there would be no problem because you could have a party in your car if you want to. If you want to have a party, you and the kids, and y'all want to have a party and throw drinks around, hey, be my guest.

That's your car, you have to live with that mess, I don't go in there. It was probably a mile, but I had on smaller shoes. You know, I wear 13s, but I had on 12s because they matched the outfit I was wearing so my feet were hurting and I didn't have any cab money to take a cab and that all played a part.

So I went on a strike. I think all men should do this when they have a disagreement. This is Relationship When you have a fight with 'the other,' don't answer their calls and don't answer their pages. That usually gets the point across that you're not talking to them. So, I held out for seven days. I went on strike for seven days and stayed at the gym for seven days. I slept in the gym.

They got nice couches in there and it just kept me in the gym working on my knee and stuff. So, back to the EA event, I didn't have a passport or driver's license to actually go to Canada because I was on strike and I didn't want to go back to the house because she kicked me out. She kicked me out of the car on a Sunday, I had to wait till the following Sunday to talk to her again.

She just got her car registered two days ago, we're waiting on that to be finalized but my dad's car still looks like trash day.

You know, it's 'the life. Blogger Alexander Ovechkin has a blog nowI see. I met him when he first came to D. He used to come to the games front row and to practice too and watch me play because both of his parents play basketball. So I heard he had a little skill and he gave me his jersey. I like watching the Capitals games just to see people getting hit against the glass.

That's my thing; watching people get hammered against the glass. As far as his blog goes, anybody can have a blog -- monkeys can have blogs -- but if it's not good or funny than it's not good or funny.

The problem with athletes getting blogs now is that they get blogs thinking they can hide away from the media, but, no, you still have to talk to the media. It's just something that's added to put fans in your everyday life, that's all. You give yourself a little bit of a human side.

Gil 20's Update SLAM Magazine has a color way too for my new sneakers so, I'm going to put it in their heads now, if they have a color that means I'm going to be on my next SLAM cover. It has to be. You can't have your own color of my shoe and put me in the back of the book!

You have to put me on the cover, right? So right now, we already know, that I'm going to be on my second cover with my new SLAM shoe. Other than that we have some other colors: Redskins Our Away Jersey ' You know, the black and gold. But it looks like the Saints colors, so when we play in New Orleans I might wear them. In my next blog post I should be ready with the schedule of what city is going to get what shoe so the fans in that city know what shoe they're getting.

So if you like the color that's coming out in L. I think adidas did a great job doing this. We came up with a great concept and it should be great, we're the first people to do it.

Floyd 'Pete' Nelson I just wanted to send my thoughts out to Jameer Nelson and his family after hearing that his dad died in a tragic accident. I'm really close with my dad, so I can only imagine how hard it is for Jameer.

The First Annual "Team Arenas Summit" I have something cool going on tonight. I am getting all of my sponsors together in one place ' adidas, EA Sports, Spalding, Vitamin Water, Fox Sports Net who are giving me my own video game show and another secret one you don't know about yet ' and I'm taking them all out to dinner.

Actually, if you think about it, they're all technically taking me out to dinner everyday, but let's pretend to ignore that. I want to do this every year to get everybody on the same page and give everybody a chance to collab together and see what we can come up with. Fantasy Basketball Season Approaching You know, I never play Fantasy Basketball but I always hear a lot about it. The ball boys in every city are like, 'Hey Gil. So, how do you feel tonight?

Because I have you on my fantasy team '' I'm like, 'Yeah ' I feel good ' What do you win if I do well? Are we splitting it ? If we are then I'll go out and score 40! I just love Fantasy because it brings fun back into sports. That's what I'm talking about. My swagger got me No. It wasn't my actual basketball skills, it was my swag.

Steve Nash's swag is not like mine. He may throw them dimes, but I throw the one-liner. Nash, Kidd, Chris Paul and Deron Williams round out the top five. That's a great list to have behind me. Those guys deserve to be back there. Loose Ends I just did a commercial for EA Sports. I was doing the voice over for a commercial coming out for NBA LIVE And I beat him. He went with the Blazers because he's from Portland and he said he'd give me a chance to score 50 on Nate.

I didn't score 50, I scored 27, but the best part about it was ' non-scripted ' guess who hit the game winner? The video game version of Gilbert Arenas. Game winner from 15 feet. For all the people who are trying to get the backboards, rims and balls from my Spalding challenge on GilsArena.

We have a team of readers standing by. Now to recap, you got to pay attention to my next three blog posts because they're going to be important. I'll give you a break down: The next blog will be about what shoes will be coming out in what city and after that I'm going to be giving a full preview of NBA LIVE 08 and I can't wait for my special post at the end of the month. High schools kids and junior high kids will want to focus on that one because it really is going to be special.

It will give kids the chance to become stars. I'm Still a Rock Star Posted by Gilbert Arenas on Aug. ET PERMALINK Friends, rivals, or friendly rivals? New Contest If you go to GilsArena. They get the rim, the backboard, Spalding balls, and all the rest of the accessories. All you have to do is submit an essay on GilsArena.

I'll have the contest running now until October 1st. That gives you a month to submit your essay. Speaking of Spalding, I did a Spalding commercial with Vince Young in Tennessee. We went to the Titans field.

That was the first time I was actually on the field of an NFL football team. The shoot was for like five hours and we talked for four hours and 30 minutes of it. He's down to earth.

He's in my Fab 5 now. Is that how you say it? He's a cool guy. He gave me his video game. He gave me Madden '08 that's juiced up.

He's juiced up in it so I get to go ahead and cheat online with it. The Gil 20's are Coming I need to tell you guys more about my new shoe. I mentioned it before, but now that the details are being worked out, I'm even more excited about it. They're called the Gil 20's. That means that there are 20 different versions coming out in 20 cities. That means what whatever version you buy in D. Or whatever comes out in L.

So this is for all the shoeheads, I'm trying out a new something new. Every shoe is totally different. I'm hoping David Stern lets me wear all the different versions without giving me a fine. So there will be 20 different shoes in 20 different cities with 20 different release dates and I should have the schedule for you guys the next time I blog so you'll know what color comes out in what city. I can give you a couple ideas of what the shoes are called though: Black President Agent Zero Hibachi That Benihana's collabbed with me.

Coke Zero That you can only get through Coke Rewards. Don't Watch Me, Watch TV NBA LIVE 08 The only way you can win this is from 2, golden tickets inserted into copies of the game. They're doing the whole Willy Wonka thing. Halo 3 That Microsoft worked on. You'll only be able to buy them in certain stores.

Your big sporting good stores are going to sell them, but most of them will go to the specialty shoe stores and the underground sneaker shops. It should cause a lot of hype because they are some good looking shoes.

This isn't the big thing that I was talking about, that's happening in a couple more weeks. That's going to be huge. But I was telling him, 'You have to do that because seven out of 10 people don't know you enough to even remember what jersey number you wore in college.

Ten out of 10 people know what I wore, seven out of 10 don't know what he wore. So by him having that gym, that gives him some clout. He's still going to be behind me with the fans, but now he has his own gym with his own name on it to go work out. It's a selfish gym. It's a gym that is celebrating Richard Jefferson. I'm donating to people. He's trying to be one of the elite Arizona players ever, which he's not right now. Unfortunately, I had to be the one to say that he's like the third favorite.

But I think his stock is dropping. He's like fourth now. I don't know what happened to cause it, but he's fourth now. The R-Jeff market is in a recession. So we joked about that the whole time. Him and I had a lot of fun. I didn't realize that I was still a little rock star in Arizona. I'm a rock star bay-bay! I didn't know I was still popular like that. I've been out of school for six years.

The game was a lot of fun. The famous Steve Kerr had an airball. I don't know how that happened. But he still hit about four or five threes. I was playing around a little bit at the beginning and one of the assistants, Josh Pastner, said that I wasn't going to score 20 points in the second half or we'd have to count 20 push-ups in front of everybody.

And I had 20 points in the second half. And he got down and gave me 20, pushin' it up. Abdul Gaddythis new little guard committing to Arizona. He still has a while, he graduates high school inbut I'm telling you as long as he's going to Arizona, he's going to the league. If you're trying to be an NBA player and you can shoot the ball and you can run, jump, and pass; go to Arizona and you'll be in the league within one or two years.

It hasn't failed us yet. Name any set of guards from another school that are better than the Arizona set of guards. It's hard to do. He's been working with me since I was 13 years old when I first entered camp. So having him there again everyday should just make me better. He's been here working with the guys, my teammates' shots are getting better. You can see what he did for Toronto and their shooting last year. He does an amazing job, so that's a plus for us right now. Eddie Griffin I heard about Eddie Griffin.

I didn't know him personally, but for a guy who was in my draft, you just have to hope he rests in peace and give condolences to his family. When I found out I was like, 'What?! How'd he get hit by a train? Update I stopped my shots at 50, I'm not going foranymore. I did 50, in 26 days. What happened was I sat out a couple days and that turned into a whole week because my arm was sore.

I thought tendonitis might be starting to kick in so I had to shut thedown. Then I had to balance out by working out and doing drills and dribbling the ball because I wasn't dribbling before, I was just sitting there shooting. I was looking like Jud Buechler. The way I was going, I was preparing just to be a spot-up shooter.

I'll save that role for my after years, then I'll just be a spot-up. They told me it was just too much on my arms and I needed to work in some of my legs and footwork stuff so I stopped at 50 k and I still had like 45 days left to reach my goal. But now I'm working on my overall balance and I'm back at percent healthy so that's good. I played pickup ball at Barry Farms the other day and had about 35 points and was dunking and stuff, so I'm feeling good.

Shark Comedians Unite Me and Ian Edwards texted. We chopped it up. He said when I come to L. I have to get him some front row tickets and then he'll give me some tickets for his comedy show.

I told him, 'Sound good. That's all I watch is comedy. I have to give him a shout out. Made Me Cross the Street the Other Day Somebody made a mix of my highlights to Chocolate Rain. You have to see it. I love that song. I want Tay to make me a theme song. Comebacks Galore Posted by Gilbert Arenas on Aug. ET PERMALINK Will I be seeing Reggie in green? I'm one of the happiest guys around now because my favorite player is coming back to play. I remember John Thompson had an interview with him and asked him, 'Do you think you're going to play in the NBA again?

My man, Penny Hardaway. That's my favorite player growing up. In my room I probably had pictures up on my wall and of 'em were all Penny. Then I had a few Shaq, young Kobe and Iverson ones too. The funny part is, you know, I collect jerseys and I just found an original Orlando Penny Hardaway jersey. There's nothing out there on him. So, I'm having all the other teams he played for -- Phoenix, New York, and now Miami ' send one of his jerseys to me. I think he still has something left.

Reggie has some stuff going on too. He just needs to get on that right team. With him, he's not as dominant as he used to be but, he can be that third or fourth option. Seeing all these guys come back has made me think about whether I'd ever do the same.

I want to leave how Reggie Miller originally left, that's how I want to see every player leave. I want to say, 'This is my last year, so the fans can give their last hurrah. I hate how guys want to come back sometimes. With Reggie, I really liked how he finished that year and walked away from the game.

But I guess he's sitting there, analyzing all these games and he's tempted thinking, 'Man, I can go in there and hit a shot! The Landlord I'm letting Nick Young rent out one of my houses. It's not all about being nice to a rookie, he'll help me pay off what I owe! It was an empty house because my daughter lives with me now. She doesn't need a whole place to herself. The family is with me now. EA Sports Camp Coming Up At first I was hesitant to go all the way to Vancouver for the EA Sports NBA LIVE Summer Camp I'm hosting because I need to get my shots in still to get up tomakes, but they said I could bring my shooting coach.

So we're going to have fun. We're going to head up there with the young kids and teach them some old pointers. Man, I can't believe I'm saying stuff like that. I must be old. We're also having a hibachi cookout because you know the flame is on right now. Oh man, it's beyond on. I wish the season started today. Jason Gardner's Wedding I missed a day of shooting over the weekend because I had to go to a wedding.

It was my old college roommate's from Arizona, Jason Gardner's, wedding. He got married after 14 years together with his junior high girlfriend. He finally got married. Me, Richard Jefferson, Luke Walton and Channing Frye from the team showed up. Coach Olsen showed up as well as some of the assistant coaches like Jay John, who is at Oregon State now. We had a good time. I couldn't decide on a gift.

So, I kinda paid for the wedding. You don't know what to give for gifts so you give money. If they end up using the money for the wedding, you end up paying for the wedding. I didn't know what to give! What do you give a guy that's getting married?

Jason leaves for Germany, I think, to continue playing basketball overseas as soon as he gets back from his honey moon in Mexico.

It really was a great time. Me and Richard, for some reason, always end up having a bragging session when we're around each other and try to out-do one another.

For some reason, he thinks he's better than me. He can't fathom that he's only the third best player from Arizona, and I'm No. He just hates that I'm No. He hates to see me on my own video game, he hates that I'm a three-time All-Star, he hates the fact that he only got a bronze medal ' all of that. He is bitter about it. Signings Congratulations, Awvee Storey! He's a really cool guy. He hustles, he plays hard, they're going to love him up there in Milwaukee.

He was so happy. He called me and was like, 'Man, thank you for everything. You stood up for me and helped me get my first job,' and I was like, 'You did it. He reminds me of me. He has talent and just got overlooked a little bit. Hopefully he has the same will power that I have to become the best, and if he does, you're going to see another star in the making. Prettier in Person For all the Beyonce' fans out there, I went to her concert.

You know, you see her on TV and you think, 'Oh man, does she really look that pretty in person? I never realized what makes her so different until I saw her live. I gladly spent money on a suite to see her. I invited a couple of my teammates too. DeShawn Stevenson came, Caron came ' I watched the first eight songs or so, then went down and worked out, and went back to the suite to watch the ending.

I never go to concerts because I feel like, 'What's the point? You're singing the same little songs you sing on TV. At the end, I got back stage. Come on, it was at the Verizon Center. The security guards know whose picture is on the building. I got all access. She gave me a hug and I had her autograph my Wizards No. There's no scandal behind the hug. Me and Jay-Z are good. That's going to be a new part of my jersey collection. But Beyonce' is, and always will be, the originator.

Another Hibachi Award Winner Usually I give out awards at the end of the yearbut somebody won the 'Best Interview of the Century' award this summer. If you guys haven't seen it, you need to search 'Marbury interview' on YouTube.

If you don't think this is the best interview in history, something is mentally wrong with you. It was so good, I watched it 12 times just to make sure that what I was watching was actually real and I wasn't imagining it.

He's like, 'I'm going to average 10 points, dimes, four assists '' And I'm like, 'What? Last time I checked, dimes and assists were the same thing. And at the end he just starts screaming, 'Do it with me now! Do it with me! So, I present Steph with the "Interview of the Century" Hibachi Award! Race toMakes: Update I'm at 42, makes right now, which is 5, ahead of schedule, but I'm going to take two days off to rest my shoulder a bit.

Oh, and before I go, I got something new in the works. My dad is coming out of retirement to help me with my upcoming marketing deal. That's all I can say for now. And I can't leave without a little bragging. For all of you Madden fans out there that are camping out, waiting for the game to be released, I know what it's like. I used to do that too. Being on the cover of NBA LIVE 08 comes with its priveleges.

I already got a copy of Madden. You can meet me in the lobby, my tag is Agent Arenas.

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I Got Jokes Posted by Gilbert Arenas on Aug. ET PERMALINK OK, Ian Edward's got jokes too. I used someone else's joke. What's the big deal? I thought it was funny, I blogged it, you all laughed. Listen, nobody even heard of Ian Edwards before me. He's no Chris Rock. I helped him become famous. Now everybody is going to YouTube and looking him up.

Seventy-eight cents, Ian, you can put that in a royalties check made out to me. Puffy and Ashanti made careers out of stealing other people's beats. This is America, the land of the reused. If you think about it, nothing is original. Every joke has been retold at some point. What I did was recycle a new joke instead of waiting for it to get old. It was too funny not to.

I mean, at least I picked a good joke, right? It's not like it was some lame, 'Yo momma' joke. Let's not forget, 'Hibachi' was stolen too. Brendan Haywood used to say it before me. But I recognize good stuff and make it popular. Now 'Hibachi' is patented by Agent Zero, son. I'm not a thief, I just reused it.

Know who is a thief? The guy that is trying to sell the domain name of GilbertArenas. I have to buy it back from him. Now that's stealing, borrowing, whatever you want to call it.

I mean they were even talking about it on PTI. Patrick McEnroe was saying I should quit making jokes about sharks and worry about rehabbing. Patrick, you're right, I should be focusing on my knee. I guess taking 15 minutes to tell a joke doesn't leave 23 hours and 45 minutes the rest of the day to be working on my knee. Rome was killing me too, but Rome's my boy so I can't say anything bad about him. Patty Mac, shouldn't you be 'focusing' on talking about real sports that are going on?

I didn't realize that telling jokes can get me on PTI. I should do it more often. Did you hear the one about the monkey and the dog ' I would finish the joke, but I already spent too much time on this post and need to get back to the gym according to McEnroe.

Before I do though, I'm going to go play with my new pet. It's called a 'liger. I made it up. Man, I'm so original. Yes, I stole that from Napoleon Dynamite. Oh yeah, Bow Wow gave me a shout out on my jeans, Fly Jeans, in his new song with B-5 so I just wanted to give him a shout out too.

ET PERMALINK All I need is a gym, a ball and a couple rebounders. One fifth, 13 days gone by, so I'm not only on track, I'm above track so I'm happy about that. There are going to be some days where I have to travel so I'm going to have to do some making up, but hopefully not too much. That's why I'm trying to shoot 1, makes instead of 1, so I can stay above the pace. I'm the only guy in the gym everyday. The motivation is I have a goal that I'm trying to reach and I think that's going to help my game next season.

That's why I'm in the gym. Time for my Teaser I got a big project coming up. I don't want to release it, I don't want to get too happy about it, but it's a really, really good project coming up. I can just give a glimpse: I'm going to do a casting for voices. I'll just say that. KG to Boston Whooo! It's going to be Boston's going to be a lot better.

They're just one more team that jumps out from the bottom to the top now with him, Ray Allen and P2. You got to be weary about that when your team's in the East because the Celtics can easily jump to the top three teams in the conference now that they have him. The rest of us in the Eastern Conference got to get on our grind now. We ain't gonna be afraid, but at the end of the day, they got some fire power on their team now. They're not like the Boston of the last couple years where we could look at the season series and go, 'OK this is going to be ' or they might sneak one win.

This is good for the franchise in Boston. You wanted them to get the No.