He’s been a constant embarrassment to our franchise. But, more importantly he’s been a terrible ambassador for the game. Four seasons of entertaining basketball don’t outweigh the decade of misogyny, shit basketball takes, xenophobia, and narcissism. Retiring this man’s number would set the LOWEST bar for what that means to a franchise.
by whobjohn
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It was an ugly take from a former wizard great. Not good.
Arenas has never been a good guy. Period. People need to realize that many athletes should be the absolute last ones looked up to as role models
Damn it Gil
Ngl I though this was r/nbacirclejerk at first
“Let’s bring him in to mentor our young guys 🤓”
Hopefully this is is the end of thar dumb idea
Yeah, nothing he says surprises me at this point. But man, if teams stopped retiring numbers of players who with offensive and trash-ass views of the world, there would be very few jerseys in the rafters around the league.
I think people are smart enough to separate the player from the person. But honestly, even if Gil was a model citizen, I still wouldn’t retire his number. He got us to the second round ONCE, and we get swept by Miami afterward. All his other playoff appearances were just opening round cardio for LeBron.
Number one racist and xenophobic podcaster. This mf…
Hasn’t everyone known by now that no chill Gil is the ultimate troll? This is his thing, it’s not new.