Agent 0 Update

With the C's off again tonight now is as good a time as any to check in with my favorite non-Celtics player – Gilbert Arenas. Thankfully Arenas sat down with Ahmad Rashad last Tuesday with hilarious results. The segment opened with a clip of Arizona coach Lute Olsen offering some insight into the former Wildcat star, “Gilbert is a character. Some of the things that he did were things that you would expect somebody in middle school to do you know like turning off the lights when the professor is up putting something on the board. And when they find the lights and get ‘em back on everyone is there except one guy and of course that was Gilbert who turned the lights off. He just has that little bit of the devil flowing through there I think.”

Following Olsen’s input it cut to studio where Rashad prompted Arenas to tell another story from college. Agent 0 obliged by explaining how he took a fish out of the fishpond at Cal Berkley and put in front of one of his teammate’s doors. Arenas then sprayed the fire extinguisher under it. This set off the alarm and had the fish moving. I watched him explain this three times and I still have no idea exactly how this prank worked.

However, any confusion over the fish prank was immediately forgotten as Arenas explained an incident from his time with the Golden State Warriors. He prefaced it by saying, “That wasn’t, I wasn’t actually being funny on that one. I was actually mad.” Why was he mad? Well as a rookie Arenas had to buy doughnuts for the team. After a while he grew frustrated from spending his own money on the doughnuts and driving 45 minutes outside of practice to buy them. So he licked all of the powdered sugar off one batch and covered them in baby powder. Arenas claims Chris Mills actually bit into one.

“See you can pull that off in ba...if you ever did that on a football team somebody would beat you up.“ – Rashad

“Oh oh no…(laughing) no I got I got beat up.“ – Arenas

The best part is Arenas does not explain the beating he took or seem upset about it at all.

Finally Arenas jumped to the present to explain how the Washington Wizards’ locker room is divided into east coast and west coast sides. The west coast side has characters such as Arenas. When James Lang, an east coast guy, was caught stealing deodorant from the west coast he was fined and banned from the locker room for a day. As long as this east coast/west coast thing does not add fuel to the fire in Brendan Haywood/Etan Thomas dispute, it seems fine. Although I’m hoping there’s no Biggie/Tupac potential there either.