Why is Gilbert Arenas acting so dumb?
Here’s an excerpt from a nice piece by Kelly Dwyer over at Ball Don’t Lie…
Worm your way into your second gun-related hassle of your professional career? Passable, to a certain extent. Most people Gilbert’s age (or, really, half his age) would understand that even bringing four unloaded weapons into the workplace is a no-no of the highest order, but Gilbert’s a professional athlete.
Even though he grew up broke, even though he’s less than a decade removed from remembering “what it was like,” he’s still a professional athlete.
And professional athletes, as has been proven time and again, year after year, just have no idea how life actually works. It’s not a basketball thing, or an African-American thing, or even an American thing. Follow the Sunday papers for the latest on the various soccer ball-kicking types overseas, if you don’t believe me. Or even the international rulers of open-wheel driving organizations.
Living in a bubble. That’s what it’s called. Some of our politicians live in a bubble. Our movie stars live in a bubble. And our athletes live in a bubble.
Only in a bubble does it seem okay to take four unloaded weapons to work. Common sense would tell most people that this is not a good idea, but common sense has a tough time surviving in a bubble. The aforementioned people only interact with a select few, and most of those lucky folks are living in their own bubbles.
Common sense can’t penetrate this much bubble.






Bubble or not dumb is dumb. Bringing unloaded pistols to work to keep them away from your kids?? Please this guy is in the middle of a $111 million contract. Can he not afford some sort of a gun locker?
The answer to your question is, he’s a professional athlete.
If any of us brought a gun to work, loaded or not, and our employer found out about it, we would be terminated immediately. Not suspended, not fined…terminated. Once again, the sports world proves it is not the real world at all.
Everyone knows that Stern doesn’t “play”. And then this clown starts taunting him in public? In an NBA arena? He deserves everything the commissioner piles on him. He had a chance to be cool, but he chose to give Dave the middle finger. Money makes people stupid. Stupid people who come into money are even worse.