Holiday Plans
I'm going to go to F.A.O. Schwartz (http://www.fao.com/home.jsp) this weekend to go get me some toys for the little ones. I’ll probably go ahead and take my wheelchair up there. They got the good toys there. I’m going to go do some shopping.

I don’t really do shopping usually though. I learned early, “If you ain’t going to get me nothing, I’m not going to get you nothing.”

When you’re an athlete, entertainer or whatever, people just assume that you’re supposed to buy them gifts and then when they don’t get you anything in return, they’ll hit you with the excuse, “Oh, you can get yourself anything.”

Oh, really?

We used to have a team gift exchange and they started getting mad at the gifts I was giving out. I gave Larry Hughes a bobblehead of me one year. I’ve also given out highlight tapes of myself. I give big, signed pictures of myself so they can look at me over the summer. You know, big ones that they can put on the wall or put it in the family room. That’s the kind of funny gifts I do. I don’t want to go out there and spend no money. I thought rich people were supposed to buy other rich people funny stuff, but they stopped doing the gift exchange because I wasn’t playing by the rules.

We used to do the same thing at Arizona. I’d ask the video guy to make me a highlight tape, and then I’d be like, “I know we’re going to miss each other over the Christmas break … So, here’s a highlight tape of myself! You go ahead and watch this.”

When you’re a professional athlete, you don’t really get to enjoy the holidays. You either got a practice on Christmas Eve or practice after Christmas or practice before Thanksgiving or you’re in another city for Thanksgiving … that’s why I said this Thanksgiving that I’m going to eat whenever I feel like eating.

I am doing one thing nice though that I’m looking forward to, on December 23rd we’re going to rent out a skating rink for two hours and I’m going to have 240 underpriveleged kids coming and we’re just going to have fun skating. I’m not going to be able to skate unless they attach some blades to my crutches, but it’s going to be nice. It’s just about making people smile and be happy around Christmas.

Gilbert Arenas: "If it can't be solved with some Agent Zero merchandise, it's someone else's problem."

Just goes to show ya, that crack don't smoke itself

In his defense, rich people should not bitch about the free shit they receive. They're fucking rich, they can buy what they want.

If he was giving highlight videos to kids, then yeah it would be terrible.

Read the whole blog entry -- total stream of consciouslessness:

http://my.nba.com/thread.jspa?threadID=400024176

I would find that funny if he gave them the videos of himself and made sure they knew it was a joke. I mean, do you really expect a big fancy gift? I wouldn't. I'd probably do the same thing, but ONLY if everyone knew it was just a joke.