Agent - Zero (IQ) Update

WHO'S JOKING NOW, GILBERT? IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEBODY DOES THE PERP WALK

So he's looking at maybe 6 months, if the judge accepts the prosecutors recommendations. Or this judge could go max like the Michael Vick judge did and go to 5 years.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4829508

The NBA has suspended him indefinitely. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors agreed not to ask for more than six months in jail for Arenas. He will be sentenced by Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin. Morin could sentence Arenas to anything from probation to a maximum of five years in jail.

Here are the details of the incident from the same story. I understand different venues, different prosecutors, different leagues and political climates, but given the prior history with Arenas, if this judge doesn't up the ante, he's making a mockery of the gun laws that will resonate across the country. High profile cases, unfortunately have a tendency to do that.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Kavanaugh, reading in court from a statement of facts that Arenas agreed to, said the charge stemmed from a Dec. 19 dispute with another player over a card game. Kavanaugh did not identify the other player, but authorities have searched the home of teammate Javaris Crittenton for a gun.

Kavanaugh said the disagreement developed during a team flight back from Phoenix. The other player offered to settle matters with a fistfight, but Arenas, 28, said he was too old for that and suggested he would instead burn the other player's Cadillac Escalade or shoot him in the face. The argument on the plane ended with the other player saying he would shoot Arenas in his surgically repaired knee.

Two days later, Kavanaugh said, Arenas brought at least one gun to the Verizon Center in a black backpack. He laid out four guns on a chair in front of the other player's locker with a sign saying, "Pick one."

When the other player asked, "What is this?" Arenas responded: "You said you were going to shoot me. Pick one."

The other player said he had his own gun, threw one of Arenas' weapons across the room and then displayed what appeared to be a silver-colored firearm, Kavanaugh said.

His biggest punishment for the crime could be, like Vick, the voiding of his huge contract by the Wizards. It is also being reported that Adidas has ended its endorsement deal with Arenas.

It's staggering to think back that over the last year or two, almost a quarter of a billion dollars in salary and/or endorsements up in smoke over issues of character, conduct or bad behavior. Actions do carry consequences. Ask Michael Vick, Plaxico Burress, Tiger Woods and now perhaps Gilbert Arenas to follow. Not to mention the troika of college coaches (Mangino, Leach, Leavitt). Granted, some may rehab their reputations or careers and recoup some of the money back, but still, a lot of money just vaporized.

In a bit of irony, I just heard some of the NBA pundits weighing in on the odds of Arena contract being voided (small) and one of them speculated that if the Wizards did successfully void the deal and make Arenas a free agent that the team most likely to be first in line to sign him - THE NEW YORK KNICKS.

Mayor Bloomberg, meet your city's newest sports star.