I always get excited when the NFL season starts. It means College Basketball and the NBA are right around the corner! I’m WAY too excited to talk about college basketball right now, so I will write about one of my favorite players in the NBA – Gilbert Arenas. (Who coincidently is a UofA alum!)
Gilbert Arenas would like to go back to school and teach Coach K a lesson. He figures he could score “84 or 85″ points if he got a chance to play Duke and coach Mike Krzyzewski, who cut Arenas from the U.S. national team last summer.Arenas has promised this season to take out his frustrations about the national team on Krzyzewski’s Team USA assistants, Phoenix coach Mike D’Antoni and Portland coach Nate McMillan.Arenas scored 54 points against the Suns last month and has said his next 50-point game will come against the Trail Blazers on Feb. 11, prompting D’Antoni to say: “I can’t wait to see what he does against Duke. He’s gonna kill Duke.”
“He’d like to see what I’m going to do against Duke,” Arenas wrote in a posting this week on his nba.com blog. “I thought it was funny because if I have the chance to go back to college, I’ll give up one NBA season to play against Duke.”One college game that’s five fouls, right? … 40-minute game at Duke, they got soft rims I’d probably score 84 or 85. I wouldn’t pass the ball. I wouldn’t even think about passing it. It would be like a NBA Live or an NBA 2K7 game, you just shoot with one person,” he wrote.Arenas was one of the final cuts from Team USA before last year’s world championships.
The team announced he was released because of a strained groin, but Arenas said the injury was minor and a convenient excuse to cut a player who was getting little playing time.Arenas, who has made a career out of using snubs as motivation. “Dreams do come true, no matter what people say,” Arenas said. “Just work hard and things come to life. I am a living truth of it.”
How can you not love a dude that says “Hibachi” under his breath when he shoots?!
If you didn’t know, Gilbert Arenas says HIBACHI when he shoots 3′s. Why?:
“You know, a hibachi grill gets real hot. That’s what my shot’s like, so I’ve been calling it that: ‘Welcome to the hibachi.”
Finally, if you haven’t seen this, you need to [ridiculously awesome]: Here
I’m so excited now!
So you may ask yourself, who are Duane’s top three players in the NBA? Well, Aside from Gilbert the others are = Kobe and Luke! Just the other night I made a bold statement: Luke Walton will be the next Magic Johnson! Boo Yah! (Luke = UofA alum) There it is, the comment has been solidified on the internet “4eva!” (To quote the great Marky Mark – FEAR)
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