After Gilbert Arenas helped lead Arizona to the 2001 Final Four, he became a three-time NBA All-Star, scored 11,402 points and was paid $163 million.
But his career began to crater in 2009-10 when he and Washington Wizards teammate Javaris Crittenton pulled guns on one another in the locker room after a card game went wrong. Arenas was suspended 50 games, never was a full-time starter again, and was out of the NBA at age 30.
Suspended Washington Wizards player Gilbert Arenas, center, and his attorney Kenneth Wainstein, left, depart court after a sentencing hearing in Washington on March 26, 2010.
Now he is the main character in the Netflix documentary “Untold: Shooting Guards,” a head-shaking 85 minutes that highlights Arenas’ immaturity — one silly prank after another.
Arenas went from what he says was “the Golden Child” to that of a prankster who collected more than 400 guns and didn’t know when to stop.
Crittenton ended up serving 10 years in prison for shooting a woman and pleading guilty to felony gun charges. The documentary was hard to watch; it chronicles two men needlessly blowing up their careers.
“I don’t feel guilty,” said Arenas. “I’m no longer that dude.”
