What an opportunity for the NBA to make a statement. You carry an elicit gun, you are banned for life. Hell, Pete Rose simply placed a few bets on baseball and got a life time suspension.
What message is the NBA sending to its players and the league if they simply let Gilbert Arenas serve his probation and continue receiving paycheques in the future?
What a missed opportunity for the league to suspend Gilbert for life and prove once and for all that if you're involved in gun activity, you're not going to play in the league. Instead, they're brushing it under the rug and the courts might even allow him to get off without jail time.
CNN.com reports that the district attorney will seek the low end of a gun charge sentence which calls for six months to two years of probation, jail time or a combination of both. Basically, he may get no jail time at all.
In my opinion the league should make a statement. Pending league contract rules, ban him from the league with or without pay. Just make a statement that says you'll be severely punished for this kind of dangerous activity.
It's too bad he didn't follow in the footsteps of his New York Giants predecessor and shoot himself in the leg.
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