OT: Arenas Saving Cash By Representing Himself

[Amel]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wireta ... g_himself/

Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas is saving himself money this summer by choosing to represent himself in free agent negotiations, according to The Washington Times.

By opting to move through the negotiations without an agent, Arenas will save roughly four percent of whatever his new contract turns out to be worth this offseason.

"I see no point in giving somebody 4 percent of my money," Arenas said on Tuesday.

lol, real talk

[Dinky Bits]

He has no experience.


Maybe we can trick him into signing with us.

[MaxRider]

He has no experience.


Maybe we can trick him into signing with us.

what's the point of giving away 4% of your money when you know you are going to get the maximum available

[Ribalding]

What a mouth-breathing (Please Use More Appropriate Word).

Here's an open letter for Mr. Arenas (guaranteed to have the exact same impact as Auburn's rambling, ManLove Myspace Fanboy Reach-around letter).

Hey Gilbert,

You're exactly right.

You shouldn't have to pay somebody 4% of your hard-earned money to negotiate your contract. Screw that, baby. It's not that complicated, after all. Just ask Master P. He got Ricky that smokin' deal with the Saints, after all. He can tell you. You don't need an agent. They only cost you money.

You don't even need an attorney. "Bad faith" schmad faith. You can do it yourself. Lawyers don't know anything about contracts or market trends or plausible deniability or Collective Bargaining Agreements. They just go 'round with their fancy degrees and charge people to do stuff they could've done for themselves. Everybody knows that.

And sure, I'll grant you: an attorney could, for far less than 1%, oversee the negotiations and the final contract. But why let him, you know? Why let him take .009% to save you 90%? You're not gonna get hurt. You're not gonna get suspended. You're definitely not gonna get a DUI after leaving a strip club. You're not gonna need all that mumbo jumbo. It's cool, man. (And if anything bad did happen, that multi-national corporation would totally be good to you, right?) Just roll up in that owner's office with some attitude. They'll get the picture.

Why? Because ignorance is bliss.

Ask Ricky Williams.

[moofs]

Spending 4% to save 90% sounds like calculus to me. Anyone talking them kind of fancy words can't be trusted and is probably a witch anyway.

[TMU]

Arenas is going to shoot himself in the foot. I am not sure if he'll get the max contract either.

[Amel]

Hey ribalding

you have been on a roll for the past few days

what are you smoking?

[moofs]

Hey ribalding

you have been on a roll for the past few days

what are you smoking?

All things with Ribalding considered, probably his spare Continentals.

[Ribalding]

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All things with Ribalding considered, probably his spare Continentals.

If, by "spare Continentals", you mean "the petrified remains of Lou Lloyd"....then yes. That's exactly what I've been smoking.

[moofs]

I know not who that is and Google, she tells me nothing.

[Ribalding]

Lewis Lloyd.

Former Rocket. Current coke dealer.

[moofs]

Ahh duh.