Just play the game and let your play speak for you. Why do certain players believe they can get into one another's heads? These two teams don't have much of a rivalry unless the Wizards win the series this season to begin one.
Do we really want to see more (or hear more) of Gilbert Arenas? I don't... James talks... But, not like Arenas has been since he'd signed with Washington. Now I'm leaning more to preferring a Boston and Cleveland match up in the second round. Because James did proclaim not too long ago that Boston must go through his team, the Cavaliers.
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Arenas trash-talking backfires
The way Gilbert Arenas and DeShawn Stevenson see it, they didn't have anything to prove Saturday. What indignant Cleveland fans don't realize, according to the Washington guards, is that they were just doing their jobs - continuing a conversation that began years ago, and trying whatever they can think of to take LeBron James out of his game. And Arenas had one other reminder for unforgiving Cavaliers fans, too. "Trash talking started three years ago," he said. "It didn't just start this series." So when Stevenson called James "overrated" near the end of the season, he was repeating the kinds of words that have been said between the Wizards and Cavaliers since their first first-round playoff series in 2006. He was also enacting phase one of his plan to disrupt James' rhythm. Cleveland Plain Dealer
