Gilbert Arenas came to the Warriors in a foul mood.
He didn’t think he got enough love from college recruiters. “I averaged 34 points in high school and I didn’t even get looked at in college,” he said.
After two years at Arizona he applied for the NBA draft. He didn’t wait until signing a contract before spending his booty. He slid to the second round, where bootys go to die.
Recently Arenas told Bleacher Report’s Leo Sepkowitz a tale of woe that you’d swear couldn’t happen in the modern NBA.
First he took out a loan against his rookie contract (the average NBA salary in 2000-01 was $548,500).