Charlie Klein
There are certain things that I do not understand in this country. How one man can break a law and receive the maximum sentence and another man can break the very same law and avoid jail time altogether. Before a D.C. Superior Court yesterday, Gilbert Arenas was sentenced to three months in a halfway house with two years of probation.
It is not necessarily the sentence that bothers me. Yes, it was a stupid act and Arenas probably should have known better. It's the fact that the Washington Wizards, for whatever reason, want Agent Zero back. How pathetic do you have to be as a franchise to want a player like that back?
If I was Ernie Grunfeld, Wizards GM, I would be trying my hardest to void the remaining $80 million on Arenas' contract. I know that the NBA Players Association vowed to fight that if such action was taken, but I have a hard time seeing how the Wizards would not be justified in their desire to cut Arenas.
The Wizards need to completely clean house. The locker room atmosphere, created in part by Arenas, led to the gun toting and law breaking. And trading away Antwan Jamison, Brendan Haywood, and Caron Butler clearly sent the message that the Wizards were trying to liquidate their assets.
Considering the balance in terms of lack of intelligence, the Wizards and Gilbert Arenas are a match made in heaven.
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