After Gilbert Arenas helped lead Arizona to the 2001 Final Four, he became a three-time NBA All-Star, scored 11,402 points and was paid $163 million.
But his career began to crater in 2009-10 when he and Washington Wizards teammate Javaris Crittenton pulled guns on one another in the locker room after a card game went wrong. Arenas was suspended 50 games, never was a full-time starter again, and was out of the NBA at age 30.
Suspended Washington Wizards player Gilbert Arenas, center, and his attorney Kenneth Wainstein, left, depart court after a sentencing hearing in Washington on March 26, 2010.
Now he is the main character in the Netflix documentary 鈥淯ntold: Shooting Guards,鈥 a head-shaking 85 minutes that highlights Arenas鈥 immaturity 鈥 one silly prank after another.
Arenas went from what he says was 鈥渢he Golden Child鈥 to that of a prankster who collected more than 400 guns and didn鈥檛 know when to stop.
Crittenton ended up serving 10 years in prison for shooting a woman and pleading guilty to felony gun charges. The documentary was hard to watch; it chronicles two men needlessly blowing up their careers.
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鈥淚 don鈥檛 feel guilty,鈥 said Arenas. 鈥淚鈥檓 no longer that dude.鈥
