So when the plane lands, walks back talking tough, saying, “If we were in the streets, I’ll pop you in your knees.” I said, “, I’ll give you the guns to do it on Monday.” It was Saturday. Crittenton yells out, “ misdeal!” So I yelled back, “Come get the with your hands if you want a misdeal!” They arguing, but Earl convinced them that JaVale had won. I have Ace, King, Queen.” So Crittenton tries to use ‘misdeal’ as a way of starting the hand over, so I said, “Y’all figure that out.” So he screams, “MISDEAL! Gil showed his hand.” JaVale said, “ that, I win. So I showed my hand, and Crittenton got mad I had three trump cards and didn’t fight with him. Since it’s Crittenton’s money in the pot, there’s no need to fight if he gets booed. You would try to money-talk somebody.” So now it’s my deal, so Earl said, “I’m out.” JaVale said, “I don’t need no cards.” Crittenton needs five new cards, so most likely he was about to match the pot once again, so I said, “I’m out,” knowing JaVale has a King, Queen. ”įrom there, Arenas said things got more tense between himself and Crittenton, per Lingebach: I think you owe Caron $300, but we didn’t say. ” So I jumped in, “Damn, dog, that’s between them two. I don’t want to jinx myself.” Crittenton spazzed, “Give that his money. Boykins asked JaVale, “Can I get my $200 now, since you have money?” JaVale said, “After we land. JaVale won the first $1,100 pot, so he scooped the money. But $800 was his, so he just lost $800, and the pot now is at $1,400, and $1,100 of it is his. So Crittenton got booed, which means he didn’t get one book, so he had to match the pot, which was $1,100. Crittenton was balls-deep in losing, so I decided to join the game. , Crittenton and were playing cards by the time I woke up. I respect Caron Butler’s book and got my copy, but the guns-in-the-locker story is FALSE in his book. However, Arenas disputed Butler's version of the story in a since-deleted Instagram post (according to Chris Lingebach of CBS Washington): Crittenton lowered the gun while Arenas quietly removed himself from the scene. Butler stayed, per his account, convincing Crittenton that he would ruin his career and likely his life if he pulled the trigger. He pulled out his own gun, already loaded, cocked it, and pointed it at Gilbert.Īt that point, the other players in the locker room, outside of Butler, quickly fled, while coach Flip Saunders remained locked in his office. “Oh no, you don’t need to shoot me with one of those,” said Javaris, turning around slowly like a gunslinger in the Old West. “I’m going to shoot your with one of these.” “Hey, MF, come pick one,” Gilbert told Javaris while pointing to the weapons. According to Butler, Arenas showed up to practice two days later with four guns, which he was displaying for all to see. “What the you mean, you know what I do?” replied Javaris. “I’ll see your at practice and you know what I do,” Gilbert said. Antawn Jamison had to restrain the two, though they continued to argue until the plane landed, resulting in the following exchange: In the excerpt describing that incident (h/t Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post), Butler recalled it began over a dispute on the team plane after Arenas pocketed $1,100 Crittenton felt he owed him after a card game. In his new memoir, Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA, veteran Caron Butler recounted the now-infamous incident between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton in December 2009, when the two teammates with the Washington Wizards brought guns into the locker room.
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