» A History of Gilbert's Practical Jokes
Some context for why Gilbert Arenas would leave unloaded guns in front of Javaris Crittenton’s locker as a joke.
To say Arenas enjoys a good practical joke is like saying Timothy Leary enjoyed the occasional recreational drug. He responded to the veterans’ orders to bring doughnuts to practice by buying plain ones and sprinkling baby powder on them—that is, when he wasn’t buying frosted ones, licking each one and putting it back in the box. He also took great joy in stealing his teammates’ keys and hiding them in, say, a bottle of water. Then there was the time Arenas showed up on the team charter wearing a Fran Tarkenton jersey—make that forward Chris Mills’s Fran Tarkenton jersey, a specially ordered throwback that Mills had been talking about for months. Arenas had sneaked into Mills’s house the night before and pilfered the prized shirt. Once on the charter, he opened his jacket to unveil what he loudly proclaimed “the best jersey in the world!” and proceeded to attack the lunch spread, making sure to wipe his hands all over Fran. “Talk about someone getting choked. I got choked for like five minutes,” Arenas says, then nods appreciatively as if remembering a particularly good Merlot. “It was funny, though.”(via TrueHoop)
