Arenas says he used “bad judgment”

Washington Bullets Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas dropped 23 points in a loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night. In addition, he thinks he exercised “bad judgment” in bringing firearms into the locker room. Really? We would guess it would depend on who you asked.

His remarks came after the family of the late Wizards owner Abe Pollin said that Arenas showed “extremely bad judgment.”

“I agree,” Arenas said. “That’s bad judgment on my part to store them in here, and I take responsibility for that.”

ESPN.com tells the story better than we can, so let’s just copy and paste their work:

Multiple sources told ESPN.com that an argument commenced during a card game on the team’s overnight flight back to Washington from Phoenix on Dec. 19 and escalated into a heated exchange between Arenas and Crittenton. The Wizards had Dec. 20 off, but sources say the hostilities resumed Dec. 21 in the locker room on a practice day.

Sources say that Arenas, in response to what was said on the flight, placed three guns he owns on a chair near Crittenton’s locker stall and invited him to pick one before practice on Dec. 21. Sources said that Crittenton subsequently let Arenas know that he had his own gun.

Asked about guns being drawn, Arenas said: “I can’t speak on that. But if you know me, you’ve been here, I’ve never did anything [involving] violence. Anything I do is funny — well, it’s funny to me.”

Asked if the accounts of what happened have been blown out of proportion, Arenas laughed and said: “A little.”

“I give money away for free,” he said. “I think if I owed someone some money, I think I’d pay it up. I play poker on my phone or my computer. If I lose, I just reset the game. I don’t gamble. I don’t do anything like that.”

Despite supposedly drawing guns on each other, Arenas said that he and Crittendon were friends before and are friends now. The fans of the Wizards don’t seem so thrilled to just let this one slip away.

“The situation involving an incident in the locker room is troubling to our family, our organization and our fans,” the family of late Wizards owner Abe Pollin said in a statement. “We know our fans are frustrated and angry. The fact that guns were brought to the Verizon Center is dangerous and disappointing and showed extremely poor judgment.”