‘Secret’ Deal Between Washington and Arenas?
Buried deep within Mitch Lawrence’s Sunday notes column for the NY Daily News, is a small paragraph regarding Gilbert Arenas’s contract situation with the Washington Wizards.
Lawrence, like everyone else, doesn’t forsee Arenas playing anywhere else but Washington in the near future, and citing an unnamed source, he says that the two sides have reached a “secret” agreement on a contract extension.
Gilbert Arenas isn’t leaving Washington, despite opting out of the last year of his contract, which would have paid him around $13 million next season. Arenas and the Wizards have secretly agreed on a new multi-year deal, according to a GM friend of Washington executive Ernie Grunfeld.
It’s interesting that such a significant development would be buried so deep within a column, and on a Sunday no less.
And it’s also worth noting that nothing has been said of this from any of the Washington papers. Stay tuned.
35 Responses to “‘Secret’ Deal Between Washington and Arenas?”
Jun.23 at 12:03 pm
TADOne says:
So is Stern going to take some of their draft picks?
Jun.23 at 12:09 pm
Earl "E.Sneed" Sneed says:
haha free agent tampering!
Jun.23 at 12:23 pm
chiqo says:
joe smith is rolling over in his grave.
Jun.23 at 12:26 pm
canadian says:
If they have a “secret deal” why don’t they just sign a new contract right now?
Jun.23 at 12:27 pm
canadian says:
Joe Smith died?
Jun.23 at 12:33 pm
Gerard Himself says:
canadian…… no, it’s an expression. (watch more Inside the NBA next season)
Jun.23 at 12:38 pm
Jukai says:
What happened to Joe Smith?!?!
Jun.23 at 12:41 pm
Gerard Himself says:
anyway, I would really to see what the Wizards can do when they all stay healthy. That would be awesome, but that has a very small chance of actually happening. Sad.
Jun.23 at 12:44 pm
dfrance says:
I would love to see him pull a Carlos Boozer on the Wiz…
Jun.23 at 12:45 pm
AC says:
Washington can’t let Arenas walk… but it would be so much cooler for the rest of the league if they did…
Jun.23 at 12:53 pm
B. Long says:
Does this secret deal involve the Wizards paying for Gil’s brazilian waxes? Hopefully…
Jun.23 at 12:58 pm
Earl "E.Sneed" Sneed says:
Thanks for the bad visuals, B!
Jun.23 at 1:20 pm
canadian says:
Canadian brodcasting rights prevent me from seeing much Inside the NBA. They use that air time to show us Curling.
Jun.23 at 4:04 pm
SMK says:
I find it hard to believe Gilbert could keep a secret, so there’s probably no ’secret deal’.
Jun.23 at 4:04 pm
B Deezy says:
if arenas stays, they can say hello to the playoffs once again….only to have lebron give ‘em the business once again…
Jun.23 at 5:22 pm
Speaker of English says:
Yes, “rolling over in one’s grave” is an expression, but it’s an expression that is used to refer to someone who is in fact dead. It’s an “expression” not because the person is not dead, but because the person is not rolling over.
Jun.23 at 5:47 pm
Mark Z says:
Really? They don’t want to see what the market will offer a guy who sat out for a year with 2 different knee surgeries? I like Gil, but I doubt teams are knocking each other over to offer Arenas a max contract…
Jun.23 at 5:57 pm
youngmuggsy says:
canadian: you ever heard of nba.com?
Jun.23 at 6:15 pm
Sesa says:
Now people will named Arenas as “Secret Agent Zero”
Jun.23 at 8:46 pm
Dacre says:
Joe Smith? I think it was Carlos Boozer that opted out of his contract under the premise that he’ll resign with Cleveland…only to jump ship for Utah…I think Eddie Jordan might wanna go chat with Randy Pfund first.
Jun.23 at 9:05 pm
DP says:
man I really wanted to see Gil rock a different jersey for next year. Gil, Caron, and Antwan healthly? PHX suns of the east for sure.
Jun.23 at 10:28 pm
The Promise says:
i wanted to see him in GS.
Jun.23 at 11:03 pm
Ethan says:
Oh well, I guess Agent 0 will have to shave himself in D.C. still GO LAKERS
Jun.23 at 11:06 pm
haha says:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I THINK U CAN ALL GO F*** YOURSELFS. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA H HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Jun.23 at 11:07 pm
haha says:
lakers SUCK ETHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun.23 at 11:08 pm
haha says:
HA HA. IN GS come on ethan thats never gonna happen
Jun.23 at 11:08 pm
haha says:
HA HA. IN GS come on ethan thats never gonna happen
Jun.23 at 11:42 pm
malak33zy says:
dc dosent need gilbert arenas they have deshawn stevenson
Jun.23 at 11:55 pm
albie1kenobi says:
@Dacre: the Wolves had a secret signing with Joe Smith back in the days and it was discovered by the League. Stern then took away 5 draft picks from them (this alone should have gotten mchale fired), and wolves were more fcuked than ever.
@canadian: you can watch Inside the NBA on nba.com. in fact you can probably still watch the ones from last season.
Jun.23 at 11:58 pm
Dacre says:
DAVID STERN!!!!
Get Shammgod out of China KENOBI—> Ahh yes I remember that good ol Kevin McHale…
Jun.24 at 1:02 am
Josh Grover says:
I think Aaron Bruce shall become a wizard after this season and take over Gilbert anyway, so it doesnt really matter if he goes or not.
P.S. Hugh says Gilbert is shallow and padantic.
Jun.24 at 2:04 am
Hursty says:
Aaron Bruce is sick. Shoulda declared after his freshman year @ Baylor though.
Jun.24 at 5:16 am
Josh Grover says:
Definatly. He had an awsome breakout college year.
Jun.24 at 6:01 pm
don thomas says:
double secret probation or is that zero secret probation
Jun.27 at 7:55 am
ENDSwizzle says:
barkley uses the phrase ’so and so is rolling over in his grave’ usually about someone who is not particularly dead at the moment. that’s what the running joke is