JaVale McGee Gets Dragged into the Gilbert Arenas Gun Story
1-liner, Guns, NBA, Twitter January 4th. 2010, 4:00pmGilbert Arenas: More details continue to emerge in the Gilbert Arenas gun incident that hasn’t quite been able to break through as a massive news story (thanks to Mike Leach, New Year’s Eve, bowl games, and the culmination of the NFL season. The card game Arenas lost was called “bouree.” Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were reportedly both losing to JaVale McGee, but then Arenas bailed. “Crittenton was left to pay the pot, much to his displeasure, so he was trying earnestly to get Arenas to pay his part. Tempers flared during this dispute and I’m told Crittenton wanted to fight Arenas for backing out of paying up. Arenas, meanwhile, said he would burn Crittenton’s car, and Crittenton said he would shoot Arenas in his bad left knee.” Also, Arenas left the twitter reservation again. [Woj]
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January 4th, 2010 at 4:03 PM
My grandparents play bouree.
/spades > bouree
January 4th, 2010 at 4:06 PM
Bid 500 > Euker > Spades > Bouree (tho I’ve never played)
January 4th, 2010 at 4:08 PM
Burn his car. Ha ha.
52 card pickup > Bid 500 > Euker > Spades > Bouree (tho I’ve never played)
January 4th, 2010 at 4:08 PM
did he ever fix his bad hand or elbow?
January 4th, 2010 at 4:10 PM
Bouree (the way my grandparents play it) is like a 5-card version of spades, except you don’t play with a partner, you can sit out a bad hand, and the trump suit is determined by the dealer’s 5th card.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:11 PM
Does anyone know what euker is that hasn’t lived in the upper midwest?
January 4th, 2010 at 4:13 PM
Euker, Northern Illinois. Also spades and bunko.
/grandparents rule
January 4th, 2010 at 4:15 PM
guts > bouree
January 4th, 2010 at 4:16 PM
go fish
January 4th, 2010 at 4:16 PM
i think it would be hilarious if arenas got his contract voided.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:16 PM
All of a sudden bunko is HUGE. Very very popular with the middle aged women set.
And fuck you, not women my age. People my MOM’s age.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:17 PM
slap jack > any card game
January 4th, 2010 at 4:17 PM
sparty, I have trouble finding any human anywhere thats played 500, but where I’m from we played non-stop. Hell I just played some over Christmas.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Gilbert Arenas Gunplay:
This will be a new commenter’s name within the next two weeks. Just a hunch.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:18 PM
500 was great. Yelling 500 and watching people go apeshit for it.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Bid Euchre > Regular Euchre (five cards and flip for trump)
January 4th, 2010 at 4:20 PM
euker was popular with a bunch of dudes in my army unit. we called them fags because they would all gather around and play wearing no shirts. again breaking the rule that if you’re around nothing but dude you wear a shirt. yes even when it is 140 degrees
January 4th, 2010 at 4:20 PM
I’ve alwats liked rummie the best. But of course nothing beats Vegas blackjack when it comes to card games. If I were a rich man I could see myself playing that shit all day long Barkley style.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:20 PM
Never heard of 500 and have definitely never heard of bouree.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:22 PM
And how do you play bid euchre?
January 4th, 2010 at 4:22 PM
4 card guts > 3 card guts
January 4th, 2010 at 4:24 PM
I had a buddy in high school whose family played euchre, and they’re definitely not upper Midwestern. Bunko was popular with all of the housewives in my neighborhood growing up. Spades was our game of choice in college. Never heard of 500.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:24 PM
Amen, love Blackjack.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Pitch > all card games.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:25 PM
My personal fave is double pinochle.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:25 PM
my family played contract rummy.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:25 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid_Euchre
Deal all the cards and bid for who makes trump. None of this BS where whatever is flipped makes it. Gotta have some balls and bid.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:26 PM
i get hostile when i play spades. i for the throat.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:26 PM
500 with the football or is there a card game?
January 4th, 2010 at 4:27 PM
i go for the throat. i typed go and it diappeared
January 4th, 2010 at 4:27 PM
And Pitch is what my family always plays
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(card_game)
January 4th, 2010 at 4:29 PM
What’s that?
January 4th, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Jay Feely, Joe DeCamillis, Brian Xanders, and a fourth guy would play hearts in the hospitality room on the road when they were all with the Falcons. This always resulted in Xanders trying to shoot the moon, and Joe D cursing him out for it. High comedy.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:29 PM
the only 500 i’ve ever played is when one kid stands like 30 yards from a bunch of other kids and yells out numbers and then throws some type of ball into the crowd and the kids try to catch it and get their score to add to 500
January 4th, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Oh yeah, have to bid for trump in Euchre. 500 is in the same vein as euker, bid for trump, both bowers, just more cards and a more complicated bidding/scoring system. Oh and the winning bidder gets the kitty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_%28card_game%29
January 4th, 2010 at 4:32 PM
KC Res — do you play 4 pts (high, low, jack and game) or more? I’m reading about Pitch on Wiki and have heard of the small jack being a point and some other variations (jokers), but never played them. I always try to talk my family into allowing 5s to be worth 5 pts as well but get shot down because we are mostly hammered playing and no one would remember.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:32 PM
I assumed the football. That’s what we always played. And of course Smear the Queer.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:34 PM
I’m liking this bid euchre. May have to try playing next time I’m at a family gathering.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:34 PM
the awesomeness of smear the queer is well documented. i wonder if kids still play, it probably has a more PC name.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:35 PM
7 different hands. combination of sets and runs. these are pretty much the rules for it.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:36 PM
rugby? yeah every recess was either football or smear the queer.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:37 PM
@REAAAZY-like tackle the faggot?
We had blacktop for our Jr High STQ playing surface.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:39 PM
i was thinking more along the lines of thrash the gaylord but that would work
January 4th, 2010 at 4:40 PM
i grew up with a large empty grass lot next to my house. we had legendary smear the queer sessions. brutal
January 4th, 2010 at 4:43 PM
Sportsgal, like a black man, you’ll never go back. Bid is a ton better as it involves guts and not just the luck of whatever was flipped over.
If you really want to make the leap, you can include no-trump high or low as possible bids our use two decks and play with 6 people, 3 to a team. With two of everything, first one lead is the bigger one.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:51 PM
i would destroy anyone at euchre or pinochle
that is all
January 4th, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Should we take this like Tomlin’s “unleash hell in December” quote?
January 4th, 2010 at 5:03 PM
well played t bone