Gilbert Arenas quote about Piston All-Stars

[boomann21]

Caron and Antawn Made It

That was great for them, that was great for the organization. For the last couple years we

[<3AmirJohnson<3]

I think Ben Wallace was the only Piston All-Star while Larry Brown was the coach here.

[triplet1984]

um, but Flip Saunders was the Pistons coach that year when 4 Pistons made the all star team. In fact, Arenas knows this b/c he tried to use his lack of minutes in the ASG (which Flip coached) as motivation against the Pistons... so... um, i dunno what he's talking about.

[srt4b]

I don't get it.

[bstein14]

Yeah that really doesn't make sense at all.

[Muzzleshot]

The only thing I get from his comment is that he didn't major in English when he was in college. That guy needs to organize his thoughts better.
A writer he's not.

His "I"m a wacky guy" shtick gets really tiresome with me. I just think he comes across as really phony.
I'm never happy when an athlete gets injured, but one nice thing about GA not playing is that he isn't getting as much media attention.

[boomann21]

Maybe Larry was calling the GM's while he was in NY. Either way I just thought it was subtle disrespect to Chauncy, Hamilton and Rasheed who are all all stars this year.

[theBigLip]

Arenas is tiring. Maybe he can open his mouth once he plays a full season and leads his team to the seond round of the playoffs.

[nasty daddy]

Who really cares what Gilbert has to say.

[ADM]

Meh, here's a better quote from the post...

"That year when Detroit had four All-Stars, since then Chauncey Billups and Hamilton have become three-time All-Stars, but at the time they were just a great team. Same thing with the Mavericks last year and Boston this year, they

[get crispy]

That was hard to read, I'm glad that everyone else thought so too, haha, I was starting to worry about myself.

[Liqourish]

I don't get it either. The only All-Star the Pistons had with LB as coach was Big Ben.

For the last couple years we

[triplet1984]

what's strange about that 2nd quote is........... weren't Billups and Rip having similar, if not better, statistical seasons, than they are now? how is they are deserving all-stars now but weren't then? Hell at the time Rip was a top 3point percentage shooter. Billups was having a career year.

[Dirtgrain]

I hate the All-Star game. How important is it to NBA players? Clearly it's important to Arenas. Rasheed Wallace didn't seem to care much when asked about it a few weeks ago. Do they get paid extra to go? Is it more of a hassle for them? Or do they love the attention and pride? I imagine a lot of players want to be selected, but griping about it reeks of misprioritizing--eye on the prize, baby! But it's a long season, and I imagine Arenas (still injured?) can use the distraction.

[Liqourish]

I knew everything I needed to know when Arenas described the A.S. game as "the big game". To Rasheed, the "big game" is game 7 of the NBA finals.... to Gilbert... the All-Star game is the big stage he strives for. What a joke. I would rather have Rasheed Wallace wanting the vacation time with his family, than Arenas any day of the week.

[Scrub Sura]

Arenas is tiring. Maybe he can open his mouth once he plays a full season and leads his team to the seond round of the playoffs.

Actually, he has.

But T.O. v2.0 is still a chucker

I actually agreed with him about Calderon. But outside of that, I don't pay any attention to him or his attention whore tactics.

[prophet_of_rage]

Guys, what he was saying was that Larry Brown voted for the Pistons starting five the year 4 were made All-stars. That has been in the press and he lobbied other coaches to do the same. The result was four of them made the team.

As for the phrase we've been having two all-stars voted to the big game or whatever there's nothing grammatically incorrect. "I've been having a lot of success with my RRSPs these past two years." "We've been making a lot of money these last few months." What's it called a gerundphrase I think? He could have said "We've had" as well, but he didn't say "We done had" or "we been having."

Gilbert's a goof and an attention whore, but he isn't in the wrong here.

[the_l_train]

i used to like arenas. the more i hear him talk though, the more i hate him. the whole "outspoken" thing was cool the first few times he did it, but now he just goes out of his way to get attention.

i disagreed with what he said about calderon. has jose responded? so maybe jose doesnt deserve to be on the allstar team over a few of the others that got snubbed, but theres no reason to write a **** blog about it. it was so unprofesional, saying "he is 20 years away" and how he is just a back-up PG. comparing him to kevin ollie is the biggest slap in the face i can think of (i'm not going to lie, i laughed when he called him out though).

I hope calderon lights him up the next time they play eachother.

[zeebneeb]

I can see that he chucks words, like he chucks shots. Indescriminently, and they make very little sense.

[nasty daddy]

Arenas is a attention seeking media whore.