68 Facts About Gilbert Arenas

Gilbert Arenas was drafted by the Golden State Warriors with the 31st overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft.

Gilbert Arenas was nicknamed "Agent Zero" while playing with Washington, due to his jersey number.

Gilbert Arenas has been nicknamed "Gibby" and "Hibachi" Both names quickly became fan favorites during his time in the Washington, DC area.

In late 2010, Gilbert Arenas was traded to the Orlando Magic.

Gilbert Arenas's grandfather Hippolito Arenas, was a first-generation Cuban American.

Gilbert Arenas was a late bloomer, taking the final spot on the national ranking as the 99th in the class of 1999.

Gilbert Arenas impressed Jordan by scoring eight baskets in his first eight possessions.

Gilbert Arenas was 17 years old during his freshman season at Arizona, where he played 34 games, starting 31 of them and averaging 15.4 PPG and 4.1 RPG playing both shooting guard and point guard.

Gilbert Arenas, who was reportedly dealing with a knee injury, struggled in the championship game.

Shortly after the tournament, Gilbert Arenas announced that he was foregoing his last two years at college and would enter the 2001 NBA draft.

Gilbert Arenas was shocked teammate Richard Jefferson was selected ahead of him despite Jefferson mocked commonly in the top 10 to the late lottery.

Gilbert Arenas would wear the number 0 on his jersey to signify the number of minutes that experts predicted he would play coming as a 17 year old low end prospect from a small high school going to a college powerhouse in Arizona.

Gilbert made his NBA debut on November 4,2001, vs the Portland Trail Blazers after not playing his first 3 games, Arenas went scoreless, Arenas scored his first point a free throw in a game vs the Toronto Raptors on November 7,2001.

Gilbert Arenas made his first career start on February 15,2002, and on February 17,2002, vs the Atlanta Hawks, Gilbert Arenas had his first double digit scoring game with 12 points; he continued the streak to 9 games with one double double in that stretch.

Gilbert Arenas started 30 games and averaged 10.9 points per game for the Warriors, who finished in last place in the Western Conference that season.

Gilbert Arenas had one of the best performances of his career during March 2003, when he dropped 41 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished five assists in a win against the Wizards which would be the team that made him their franchise player after the Warriors were unable to match.

Gilbert Arenas said after he won the Most Improved Player award that he didn't think there was much to improve, and he had only needed more playing time and more experience.

Gilbert Arenas reportedly flipped a coin to decide among several teams seeking to sign him, including the Wizards, Warriors, and Clippers.

The Warriors were unable to match this offer because they were over the salary cap and because Gilbert Arenas was a second-round pick.

The "Gilbert Arenas Rule" was later created to allow teams to re-sign restricted free agents who were not first-round picks.

Gilbert Arenas battled a strained abdominal muscle injury all season which would cause him to have only to start 52 games in his first year in Washington and constantly sitting on the sidelines dropped his shooting percentage instead of breaking out into the franchise cornerstones in his first year Washington envisioned, Gilbert Arenas still lead the team in PPG and APG.

Gilbert Arenas guided the team to a 45-win season and its first playoff berth since 1997.

Gilbert Arenas led the team in scoring with 25.5 ppg, finishing seventh in the league in that category.

Gilbert Arenas participated in the Three-point Shootout, where he placed second, after Dirk Nowitzki.

Gilbert Arenas had expressed a desire to win a championship with the Wizards.

One of Gilbert Arenas' most memorable plays was a 40-foot jump shot in Round 1 of the 2006 NBA playoffs in which the Wizards were eliminated by the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers in six games.

Gilbert Arenas himself has noted that he withdrew from the United States national team for the 2006 FIBA World Championship because he felt that assistant coaches Mike D'Antoni and Nate McMillan had determined the roster even prior to tryouts.

Gilbert Arenas holds the Wizards' franchise record for points scored in a game by an individual, a record he now shares with Bradley Beal.

Gilbert Arenas hit a game-winning layup as time expired to beat the Seattle SuperSonics on March 21,2007.

In February 2007, during the final days of All-Star voting, Gilbert Arenas was voted as a first-time starter for the 2007 NBA All-Star game for the Eastern Conference, edging out Vince Carter by a slight margin, with 1,454,166 votes to Carter's 1,451,156.

Towards the end of the season, Gilbert Arenas tore his MCL during a game against the Charlotte Bobcats, when Gerald Wallace fell into his leg.

Ten days prior, Gilbert Arenas stormed out of the locker room before a game against the Detroit Pistons.

Gilbert Arenas had wanted to play, but his doctor did not give him clearance.

Gilbert Arenas came off the bench for the rest of the regular season as not to disrupt the chemistry the Wizards had built without him.

On June 9,2008, Gilbert Arenas officially opted out of the final year of his contract, but said that he would re-sign with the Wizards if they retained teammate Antawn Jamison, a free agent.

Gilbert Arenas was offered a five-year contract worth more than $100 million by the Golden State Warriors and another max deal by the Wizards, a six-year deal worth $124 million.

Gilbert Arenas was teammates with Jamison during their time in Golden State.

On July 13,2008, Gilbert Arenas signed a six-year contract worth $111 million with the Wizards.

Gilbert Arenas dished out 10 assists and scored 11 points, in a win, and fans were excited to see Gilbert Arenas, Brendan Haywood, Antawn Jamison, and Caron Butler re-uniting for the only time in the season.

Six days later Gilbert Arenas had a season-best 45 points in a Wizards win over his former team, the Golden State Warriors.

On December 24,2009, it was reported that Gilbert Arenas had admitted to storing unloaded firearms in his locker at the Verizon Center and had surrendered them to team security.

The DC Metropolitan Police and the US Attorney's office began investigating, and on January 14,2010, Gilbert Arenas was charged with carrying a pistol without a license, a violation of Washington, DC's gun-control laws.

The punishment for Gilbert Arenas was significantly stiffer than for Crittenton, who received a year of unsupervised probation, or Delonte West, who had been driving around in a three-wheeled motorcycle in Prince George's County with several loaded guns including a shotgun in a violin case.

On December 18,2010, Gilbert Arenas was traded to the Orlando Magic for Rashard Lewis.

Gilbert Arenas was reunited with former Warriors teammate and draftmate Jason Richardson in Orlando.

Gilbert Arenas was the backup point guard, with Jameer Nelson at the starting role.

On December 9,2011, after the end of the 2011 NBA lockout, Gilbert Arenas was waived by the Orlando Magic under the amnesty clause, being the first player to be waived under the newly established clause at the time of its inclusion.

Memphis would lose Game 7 72 - 82 to the Los Angeles Clippers with Gilbert Arenas only playing for 3 minutes and recording no stats; Gilbert Arenas was only 30 years old in his final NBA game.

On November 19,2012, Gilbert Arenas signed with the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association.

Gilbert Arenas played in 14 games and started in 8 of them.

Gilbert Arenas hosted a daily sports show on Complex News' YouTube channel.

Gilbert Arenas has his own No Chill Productions podcast, The No Chill Podcast.

Gilbert Arenas is a regular co-host alongside Chad Johnson on Shannon Sharpe's podcast, Nightcap.

Gilbert Arenas has had a show and created content with Fubo Tv for many years.

Gilbert Arenas has four children with Laura Govan, whom he dated from 2002 until 2014.

Gilbert Arenas met Govan while he was playing for the Warriors.

Gilbert Arenas son Alijah is a 5 star prospect in the class of 2025, who committed to play for the USC Trojans.

In July 2024, Gilbert Arenas announced his engagement to French social media influencer Melli Monaco.

One of Gilbert Arenas' cousins is Javier Gilbert Arenas, a professional football player who played for the NFL's Buffalo Bills.

Gilbert Arenas is a friend of rapper The Game and was listed in the booklet for The Game's second album Doctor's Advocate.

Gilbert Arenas collects a synthetic basketball from each team played, as well as players' jerseys, of which he has more than 400, most of which are autographed.

Gilbert Arenas supported PETA's anti-fur mission by posing shirtless for their Ink, Not Mink campaign.

Gilbert Arenas has mentored a DC boy who lost his family in a fire at age 10.

Gilbert Arenas got him a job as a ball boy for the Wizards.

Gilbert Arenas has had his own shoe, the Adidas Gil Zero, as well as his own line of Adidas TS Lightswitch shoes.

For nearly every game of the season, Gilbert Arenas wore a different pair of shoes, wearing a total of 77 different pairs.

Gilbert Arenas admitted that he ran about 60 red lights in 4 months and got away with it by keeping his dealer plates on his vehicle.

On June 27,2013, Gilbert Arenas was arrested by the LAPD for the possession of illegal fireworks.