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NEW YORK — The NBA has suspended the Washington Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas indefinitely.

“Although it is clear that the actions of Mr. Arenas will ultimately result in a substantial suspension, and perhaps worse, his ongoing conduct has led me to conclude that he is not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game,” commissioner David Stern said in a statement Wednesday. “Accordingly, I am suspending Mr. Arenas indefinitely, without pay, effective immediately pending the completion of the investigation by the NBA.”

Gilbert Arenas Says He Used “Bad Judgment” With Firearms

Arenas admitted in a statement that he kept firearms in his locker.

“As I have said before, I had kept the four unloaded handguns in my house in Virginia, but then moved them over to my locker at the Verizon Center to keep them away from my young kids,” the statement read. “I brought them without any ammunition into the District of Columbia, mistakenly believing that the recent change in the DC gun laws allowed a person to store unloaded guns in the District. On Monday, December 21st, I took the unloaded guns out in a misguided effort to play a joke on a teammate. Contrary to some press accounts, I never threatened or assaulted anyone with the guns and never pointed them at anyone. Joke or not, I now recognize that what I did was a mistake and was wrong. I should not have brought the guns to DC in the first place, and I now realize that there’s no such thing as joking around when it comes to guns — even if unloaded.”


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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/n0gar/ n0gar

    Stern has gotten suspend happy after the NFL commish. However, millionaires should not be acting like money starved crack fiends!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ShockExchange/ ShockExchange

    Somewhere former NBA Deputy Commission, Simon Gourdine, is shaking his head. Noone seems to remember when the NBA was considered “too black” and drug infested for mass appeal. Current players have reneged on their obligation to be ambassadors of the sport that Dr. J, Bird, Magic, Jordan helped build. For the best write-up of the Arenas situation, go here: http://clicky.me/7lz

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BP_SportsFreaks/ BP_SportsFreaks

    Gilbert is a straight up idiot! I guess Plaxico sittin in jail with his career over wasn’t a reminder for him. Stern is gonna make an example out of him.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Purd_Man/ Purd_Man

    gil is gonna get hit with a mike vick type situation i jus dont think he is gonna lose all his s**t from the feds but they will make an example outta him cuz he is a high profile high paid player… the other nba players are not stars or makin as much as gil combined… i think they gonna make it to where they will revoke his contract and not have to pay the $111 million left on his deal since its a “Violation of League Rules” but hey… if thats how u live then eventually you will see you not above the law…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/biker_boy_int/ biker_boy_int

    I don’t think he understands how much trouble he is in. I saw him in an interview joking about it with the media. Every body knows DC has some of the strictest laws againgst fire arms let alone without a license.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sexychocolate901/ sexychocolate901

    Well when you make a bad choice like that you suffer the consequences and David Stern is gonna make a big example out of him. I do wonder what is going through these dudes heads what are they thinking. Maybe they think they are above the law well they find out the hard way that they are not.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/C4pricorn/ C4pricorn

    DUMBASS, they should let him go. he hasnt benefited the team in years anyway. they’re wasting money on him.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    It SERVES his goofy A** right! Goes to show you, “even when a person is $Blessed$ they get stupid, plus proves to be dumb as a BOX OF ROCKS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Missdetroit12/ Missdetroit12

    Thats f**k up now they f**k up the game oh well if u do the crime you have to pay the cost………

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/taurus216/ taurus216

    HA HA HA

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lilwillie18/ lilwillie18

    ALL I GOT TO SAY IS GILBY SHOULD HAVE KEPT HIS MOUTH SHUT AND IM GLAD THIS WASN’T KOBE BUT LETS GO LAKERS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mrfun1958/ mrfun1958

    I’m from DC and live in LA. I don’t like west coast ball players (they are weak) and I can’t stand the Fakers oops I mean Lakers and the Wizards aren’t going anywhere anyway. Stern once again is throwing his weight around as well abusing his power but who cares, I sure as hell don’t. I’m a Celtics fan.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Purd_Man/ Purd_Man

    i mean on the real.. wat kinda joke u playin by layin out 3 guns on a dude locker talkin bout “pick one” especially if yall already beefin over some card money… no damn sense man…smh at these fools wit all this talent and the golden opportunity and do ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN with it…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shawnt1974/ shawnt1974

    wow, I NOW REALIZE IT WAS WRONG. lol i hope he’s got millions saved up

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shawnt1974/ shawnt1974

    you know i understand that some of these guys really do carry weapons for protection because there r clowns out there who wanna at them because of their status, but i really do believe that some of these clowns r still trying to be thuggs. CRAZY. all that wealth and blessings and they wanna be thuggin

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TJ-O-Yea/ TJ-O-Yea

    i swear some just do stupid s**t

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/vdjbig/ vdjbig

    sad,,,,,sad

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/truthserumX/ truthserumX

    Common sense….not common! You took guns from your home and put them in a locker to keep them away from your kids? Sooooo…you’ve never heard of a lock box? And I’m assuming you didn’t want your kids to “play” with them yet, you do? Come on man….LMAO…that was a sorry lie! Who the hell is his legal counsel? Please fire them ASAP! If your actions aren’t enough to get you in trouble your mouth surely is! It’s unfortunate. All these big time athletes, make big time money, and have big time opportunities and yet get defeated by the simplest thing. I hate feeling like these leagues and organizations utilize their authority to make some of these Black stars do what they should already be doing! Put away the childish games, you in a grown man world, act grown!

    I absolutely do not believe he should have his entire career taken from him. HOWEVER, if this was a 9-5 job and this happened, there’d be no question that persons career would be over, so I guess whatever the consequence, he has to take it like a man!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/side_showbob/ side_showbob

    Ding,Ding,Ding,ding, wake up call thuggin is played out, washed up, and hanging with the gutter rats. Million dollar baby and people still want to do senseless things, cmon dude we need you!!! we need dudes like arenas to shine.. sorry that it had to be like this…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TiredMan/ TiredMan

    Maybe some of these white supremacists have a point…maybe we ARE our own worst enemy. All that money and material access to bettering oneself, and these fools STILL can’t shake that ghetto mentality! I guess money DOESN’T buy class.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blaknaalij/ blaknaalij

    all tha house niggaz on here need ta shutthaf**k up who says that nobodys try ta rob a cat thats clockin 5 r 6 mill a year u f**kin f****tazz clown b***h made niggaz
    remember when somebody took marcus camby’s family hostage? wat really happend to micheal jordans son? wat happend to vernon forrest? wat there not supposed ta ever visit their family and friends? tha places they come from? somebody’s probaly just plottin on some a these cats coming home right now
    do albino parasitic hockey players get suspended indefintely for bringing guns to tha locker room?
    muthaf**kas get mad entertainment outta watchin these niggaz
    but they are not allowed ta defend thereselves they already forced to dress in million dollar monkey suits they dont really want to wear when they are hurt on tha bench

    b***h azz house niggaz always quick ta by into u albino masters media lies
    f**k u nigggaz
    itz ur fault that things are they way they are anyway
    if u beleive shyt like this and micheal vick are being handled right or not even harshly enough
    then u are already sheeplized and dont even know
    myspace.com/naalijblak

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shakka/ Shakka

    it’s really irrelevant WHY he had the guns..fact is, he made a very stupid move. and you gotta just learn from the negros before you…ie:plaxico…

    trust, i feel bad for the brother…but what the phuck am i to say about a negro that was forewarned a gazillion times…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    As far as I’m concerned, this was a “joke” that got out of hand. Nothing funny about gunplay or joke or not. Nobody is coming out saying they feel threatened by him, says a lot to me. I mean lets be honest, if somebody pulled a gun out at your workplace, how many of us would lodge loud complaints? I don’t hear that from the teammates. Stern and Goddell is clamping down on “black” players, its that simple!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jeffrey1975/ Jeffrey1975

    Ummmm? You take a firearm to your place of employment where firearms are prohibited. WTF! Although I think it is wrong to suspend him indefinite, I think it is the teams responsibility to discipline him, not just one man, David Stern. But it goes back on G, dumb move. Besides loosing how you make your living, them folks might decide to lock your butt up. It has happened. Remember, to a large number of WP’s, we are still, always have, and always be niggas even when we are making there world richer and richer. Oh, just a thought, let’s get our own sht! But it still does not excuse the fact that G made a dumb mistake and has to deal with the punishment. So, for the people with the thug mentality, obvious you never have had a professional job or a real job in respects. Because if you did, you would understand with rules comes order and responsibility. Think about all the on the jobs fatalities involving disgruntled employees.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dr_Beat_Itup/ Dr_Beat_Itup

    Aaaw damn bruh… You tripped. Nobody should’ve known you had guns at the gig man!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TrueandLiving_9/ TrueandLiving_9

    Hire a bodyguard if your life is in danger. He plays basketball ! What does he really know about firing a gun (targets don’t count). Truly stupid move. It kills me that athletes think they can do things that the average person could not get away with like their money isolates them.In their eyes you are just a “n*gga” with money. If you get a paycheck, you are still a slave, your just make more money.He should know that he is still “one of us” and that WP wait for you to make the slightest mistake because the same rules do not apply to us.

    The rules are different. Example?

    Patrick Kane, a hockey player with the Chicago Blackhawks beat up a 70 year old cab driver over 20cents change (8/10/09). Google it.

    He was charged with a misdemeanor and no assault charges were filed. Furthermore, he will be eligible to try out to represent “Uncle Sam” in the 2010 Winter Olympics. No league suspension, no league fine, no team fine, and no tearful apologies on television or press releases from management.

    Didn’t hear about it on ESPN around the clock ? Not on your news program? Wonder why.

    They are not happy that we make money and progress; never have been and never will be. They are not afraid of your thugged out b*llsh*t because the prison system is built for you in that mental state. They only fear the freedom that comes from education and right thinking. They only fear that each one will teach one and that brothers like Tiger, Gilbert, and any successful Ethiopian will reach back to uplift.

    The tricks and traps have been around since Cain slew Abel. Stop being tricked into lynching your own so quick, yet support the very institutions that use our talented brothers and sisters until they stop serving their purposes (NBA,NFL,Hollywood,etc.). Stop questioning your peoples “blackness” by the levels of melanin in their skin. If you are of slave ancestry (which is most of us in North America) I would be willing to bet that none of your African “blood” is pure Nubian. Would you deny Malcolm X’s (aka “Red”)commitment to the cause ? These are old tried and true slave masters tricks instituted to keep us from unifying. Any of us that subscribe to this thinking are participating in REAL and true Uncle Tom, Step and Fetch, Mammy mentality that continues to bind our people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Successonmymind/ Successonmymind

    What the hell do you need four firearms for in your locker?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/3iiiE/ 3iiiE

    whuuuuuuuuuuut…thaaaaaaaaa…fuuuuuahhhhhh…outta there…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MrWantSomeNewBooty/ MrWantSomeNewBooty

    Afterall this is the team formerly known as the Washington Bullits.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KITATHADIVA/ KITATHADIVA

    Well folks if you take an ignorant negro and give him millions he’ll still be an ignorant negro he’s just not a broke one and this fool just proved that point.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/javon707/ javon707

    @ trueandliving_9

    wow! im impressed. well said.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PrIncessesAreI/ PrIncessesAreI

    Gilbert can I take you home????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Trueandliving_9 excellent job pointing out the hypocrisy in the sports and real world, but I still maintain, this was nothing more than a immature, juvenile, childish JOKE further evidenced by the fun they had with it during the timeout when Gilbert used his finger to simulate a gun and everyone laughed at it, pretty much letting me know, that this thing has been blown way out of proportion. I will wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, that Black athletes should know better. Its unfortunate, but their actions will be scrutinized in ways others won’t be. This my friends is the post OJ era. Don’t think this is not connected. Ever since that day in 1994, the rules have been “revised” and black athletes are under attack now more than they ever were, and shame on them for not recognizing it.

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