It goes without saying that in the past year Gilbert Arenas, once seen as an all-around nice guy with a happy-go-lucky attitude, has seen his popularity and reputation take a huge hit since the gun incident between himself and Javaris Crittenton.
It seems as if Arenas has been unfairly vilified for his violation of the Washington D.C gun laws and the NBA gun policy, something which he seemed sincerely apologetic for.
Arenas grew up with a mother who was a drug addict, and left the family when he was a small child. He looked up to his father, who raised him on his own, and has worked to be a good influence on the less fortunate around him.
Gilbert is a perfect case of today's media focusing on the bad that someone does, while not taking into account all of the good the person has produced.
After the gun incident, and the successive pregame exposition by Arenas in which he pretended to shoot his teammates, poking fun at the situation, he didn't go on television and read from a script with fake remorse. He wrote a letter to the Washington Post recognizing his wrongdoing, not because it hurt his image, but because it was a bad message to ...
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