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In a league with its fill of huge personalities and oversized egos, Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas stands apart because of his nomadic journey from a Miami housing project to the streets of Los Angeles, a caring father and a forgotten mother. |
Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise was online Tuesday, Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. to discuss his two-part profile of Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas. |
Submit your questions before or during the discussion. |
Read part one: The Psychic Scars That Shaped an NBA Star . |
Read part two: Arenas's Summer: Bizarre and Absurd . |
UpMo, Md.: Scarred and wonderful; giving and reclusive; what a wonderful portrait of a very complicated man you wrote. He hasn't bought a home for his father, but the baby mama who chased him down through her lawyers like a dog has a house, an allowance, and a second child on the way. He can't make himself call his mot... |
Mike Wise: Thanks for joining me, people. I've got a truckload of questions and I'll try to get to all of them relating to the story on Gilbert Arenas. Bear with my dial-up connection. Thanks, Mike. |
Roanoke, Va.: Well, now we know why Gilbert had those occasional five-point games! Is this typical NBA behavior? When someone is listed as sick, he may be hiding from the law? And he sounds so proud of this! I was really stunned. |
Mike Wise: A lot people will see what they want to see in a story like this. I read my words one way, you read them another and so on. In all the time I took to get to know Gilbert and the people in his life, I didn't find any flat-out villains. Just as I wouldn't paint you as a player-hater for your thoughts about Gil... |
Takoma Park, D.C.: How hard was it to get Gilbert to open up about his personal life? The Washingtonian writer who also did an in-depth study, which focused on basketball, said he didn't even know Gilbert had a daughter before reading the Wizards' information guide, which apparently got the name wrong! |
Mike Wise: Gilbert will talk to you about most things in his life if he trusts you enough, but he's not going to volunteer information. There was a lot of interviewing of other people about Gilbert before I sat down and spoke to him about his life. It did take a good hour or two during an interview this summer in his L... |
Washington D.C.: Why write this disgusting material and not just one day but several? |
The Washington Post promoting a deadbeat millionaire athlete is more information than the fans needed to know. I do not sympathize with this man. Yet you fill our lives with this swill. |
What a dreadful thing for our franchise, the Washington Wizards and its owner, Abe Pollin, to not only support a deadbeat father in his antics to "hide" from his responsibilities but to involve the entire organization in lying and manipulation. It would have shown more honor, integrity and character to have simply acce... |
Mr. Arenas, obviously a liar, was fully aware that he was and continues to have relations with the young woman, what is the mystery? In the Washingtonian Magazine he stated firmly - he had no girlfriend, yet having relations enough to father a second child. |
Mr. Arenas and his poor attitude concerning his mother and the mother of his children is a sad commentary. The entire article is terribly disgusting and very disappointing. The lack of honor, character and integrity flows from the top. |
As a side note: There is an article in Sports Illustrated regarding NFL running back Chad Johnson, who also was left as a child by his birth mother. The writer handled the entire matter in a much more professional manner. Mr. Johnson also has several children out of wedlock yet it appears no one seems to be "running an... |
Mr. Wise, You should have left filth of Mr. Arenas' private business - just that - private. He is no "star" in my books. Thanks to you, neither are Abe Pollin and Eddie Jordan as they call themselves "the family" They will reap the consequences of their actions in spades. |
The best thing the franchise should have done is sent him for counseling or discuss how to become an honorable man not a self absorbed liar. |
Mike Wise: This was not a question, but I thought I would let it be seen because it speaks for a growing number of very sad and misinformed people out there. Let me be clear: Gilbert Arenas is not a deadbeat dad; he made clear from the beginning that he wanted custody of his daughter and to be involved in her life at e... |
Mike Wise: Thanks much. The one thing that I learned about Gilbert that kind of shocked me? That he actually wanted this story to come out. I thought it was so incredibly personal and private, well, you always think, "What if someone was writing about my life story? How would I feel?" But his whole attitude was, "There... |
College Park, Md.: Be honest: you rolled down to Barry Farms with him in his Ferrari, right? Have you ever been down there before to watch any games? |
Mike Wise: Yo, all the cats know me at Barry Farms, where I routinely drop 40 on all the supposed 'ballers. They call me Mr. Wise, at which point I usually break into a rap song. |
I freak so hard I was built to hypnotize." |
Okay, I confess: That was my first trip to Barry Farms. And, as Miles Rawls, the commissioner, will tell you, I was indeed the most unhip cat in the crowd. Although I will say this; what a tremendous, real environment. Every hoophead that loves the game should go down there and see the crowd and the basketball. They op... |
Rockville, Md.: Do you know why Gil fired his agent? |
Mike Wise: Yes, that was in the Barry Farms story. I think he just got tired of Dan Fagan not marketing him the way he thinks he should be marketed. |
Arenas is clearly a guy with a lot of baggage, so would he or is he considering some sort of professional help before he walks down the path of those other four players that I mentioned? |
Mike Wise: Mildly amusing, but, and I know I'm going to come across as a Gilbert apologist here, he doesn't belong in that group. Gilbert has some odd-ball behavior traits, but he doesn't have a mean-spiritedness to him that some of those other players and coaches you mention do. Do I think he could use help in the way... |
Warrenton, Va.: Did the press have any idea this was going on? And that it could explain the occasional game where he just didn't show up? While I don't think the press should air players' dirty laundry, when you've got one claiming illness to escape a process server, isn't that a different situation? |
Mike Wise: No, the press had no idea. I mean, one of my co-workers actually tipped me off to the situation in Sacramento. We'll call this person Bill (not his real name; his real name is Ivan Carter, who does a great job of covering the Wizards on a daily basis). Anyhow, there were inklings but nobody could nail it dow... |
Raleigh, N.C.: I enjoyed your article. Gilbert is one of my favorite NBA players. Something in your story struck me as odd, though. His father obviously did a good job raising him. But why did he just leave after the incident with Gilbert's mother? Did he say why he didn't try to gain custody of Gilbert? To me, it just... |
Mike Wise: Good point. There was some nuances that didn't get in, including a passage that involved Gilbert's grandmother trying to extricate him from that situation. I think at the time Gilbert Sr. was a 19-year-old kid who wasn't sure what it meant to be a father and wasn't sure if he could even make it in the world ... |
Alexandria, Va.: First of all I really enjoyed the article on Gilbert. However I noticed when you quote black athletes (in this article it was Gilbert's father) you more than most reporters always capture the misspellings of the people quoted. Are you trying to display the vernacular of the person you are quoting? Why ... |
Mike Wise: I appreciate you noticing the dialogue in the story. I'm not sure which other Post reporters you are talking about, but I will say this: I didn't think of myself as doing a story on the black community; I thought of myself as writing about a young man's odyssey from boyhood to adulthood, a young man who happ... |
Mike Wise: People, the response has been so overwhelming I've been told I can go over my allotted hour time slot. So stay with me if I haven't gotten to your question. Thanks for the interest. It's really overwhelming and flattering, even you haters. : ). |
Matt, D.C.: Why is Gilbert's "quirkiness" viewed as such a negative thing? At no point is it detrimental to the team. He always gives his all. It almost seems to be the knock on him when you compare Gil to the other top stars in the league. Why is Shaq viewed as funny, while Gilbert is "quirky"? |
Mike Wise: Matt, very salient point. Shaq used to tell me, "Why am I looked at as a young knucklehead with no priorities when I do a rap video and David Robinson is supposed to be a learned, smart man 'cuz he plays saxophone?" He was right. We completely labeled him. Same with Gilbert. He's got some offbeat character t... |
I know very little about Gilbert but I thought your story offered breadth in this man's life. I must admit that I thought he was different than many sports players -- stepping up and taking care of his daughter and her mother. Then, one of your last paragraphs reveals the mother is pregnant again. I don't think it's ou... |
Mike Wise: One of the things people keep coming up to me and asking me about is, Laura Govan, the mother of his child. And it always starts with, "Is he nuts? After all the drama they went through and he's still having another baby with her?" |
I can't pretend to get inside his head about this one, but I do think that sometimes we handicap public figures like sports stars much differently than we do regular folk. What I mean is, if you heard of a 24-year-old kid who had been on and off with the same woman for almost five years getting her pregnant for a secon... |
Anonymous: I am disturbed by the judgmental and misguided comments that have been made in response to these articles. |
Yesterday on this site, after reading about Gilbert overcoming his tragic upbringing, someone complained that the NBA should not be allowed to claim a player has the flu when he is really healthy. The cat was abandoned in a crack house when he was three and the most remarkable part of the story is the disclosure of mis... |
Now people want to blast Arenas for his moral decisions. EVERYONE has done dirt and has skeletons in their closest. If the above poster's deepest darkest thoughts and desires were made known to the world, I am sure they would be as filthy as the next man's. |
I don't know why he would keep sleeping with her. But in terms of marriage, how successful is he going to be if he can never trust anyone anyway? |
He did buy them a house nearby, the dude half-adopted the little boy last year when his family was killed in the fire, the cat doesn't fly off the handle like Sheed, doesn't end up in police reports like Webber and Howard did, and has a greater work ethic than 99 percent of the people posting comments on www.washington... |
Seriously, I've never had a reader's back more than I do right now. Shame on us for judging someone whose background most of us will gladly never have to deal with. |
D.C.: Very cool of you to stay on longer. Frankly, I am shocked by the negative responses posted above. I found the article to be eye-opening, and most importantly very open. Mr. Arenas surely did not need to open his life up to such judgment. I admire his willingness to do this, and his hope to impact others. Can the ... |
Anyway, thanks for a great read. |
Mike Wise: No problem. The questions just keep getting better and better. I don't vehemently disagree with the people who have problems with how he has dealt with his situation. But I just don't think you can be black and white about this -- or anyone in the story for that matter. There is a lot of gray area in his lif... |
The story about Gil's childhood was really fascinating. Maybe it's just me and my overly-psychoanalyzing ways, but the part toward the end where you wrote about his relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and how Gil said it wasn't like his mother abandoning him had made him not respect women or anything, ... |
But it sounds like there have been a lot of painful experiences in his life, and it may harder to recognize that emotional injuries can be treated in the same way that on-court physical injuries get cared for. |
Thanks for a really touching look at a side of Gilbert Arenas that I didn't even know existed. |
Mike Wise: Keep psychoanalyzing, I love it. One of the things we get to do as writers is play amateur psychologist all the time, and I found myself doing that the whole time I was writing this story. |
I think anybody that has been abandoned as a child has some real deep-seeded issues about trusting people that get close to them. Jean, a therapist friend of mine, will tell you that people with these backgrounds push those who love them away because they think, in their heart, that those people will leave anyway. It's... |
I don't have the expertise to tell Gilbert he needs to go see a therapist, but I do think it's incredibly hard to even conceive of dealing with that kind of stuff at 24 -- especially in a warped profession where any kind of psychological problem is seen as a major weakness instead of something that should be treated an... |
I could see him maybe talking to somebody in his late 20s or early 30s, but I just don't think he wants to deal with it before then. |
D.C.: What is Arenas's baby's momma's thinking about this? Is she content to be the unmarried bearer of all his children and a kept woman, or coming from a well-off family, she has some goals in life that she wants to pursue? |
Mike Wise: Laura has kind of been painted as the person causing a lot of stress in his life -- and for good reason after last year. But my take on her, having gotten to know her a little bit, is that she really cares for Gilbert deeply and really believes that they can eventually work out as a couple if both of them do... |
Des Moines, Iowa: I enjoyed the article and the very personal account of his childhood. Too bad that many of the others submitting questions seem to have a very negative agenda. |
Gilbert isn't perfect, but then who is? I appreciate his honesty and wish him luck in raising his two kids. |
Mike Wise: I wish some of the people really taking him apart would imagine a story written about their own life like that before they judge him. I just don't believe you can tear Gilbert Arenas down until you've walked in his Adidas sneakers. |
What's up with the baby mama?: I didn't get a sense of the nature of their relationship other than they still "kick it." Does she love him? Does he love her? I have all kinds of images about her based upon her background: worked for Shaq; hooks up and has a baby with athlete from another city. Bottom line: Was she an N... |
Mike Wise: Baby Mama Drama, that's what up. Good questions. A little New York Post-ish, but that's okay. Laura Govan wasn't an NBA groupie, that's not fair. Beyond her own parents, who owned and operated jazz venues in the Bay Area, she's also the goddaughter of a prominent NBA agent. She knew a lot of players growing ... |
Someone told me once, "The most dangerous seven inches in the world are between your ears." The crazy things we come up with in our heads never match reality. That was Gilbert, I think, last year after the baby was born. |
I wonder if the Wizards would have backed such a move if Arenas has been a bench player versus a star? |
I am sure the Wizards would have turned their back and said that they would above such behavior. |
But this happens from the pee-wee leagues all the way to the majors. |
Mike Wise: That's an interesting argument. Would Abe Pollin have been so incredibly supportive during an issue obviously detracting from his team's goals if Gilbert Arenas were the Wizards' 12th man? I'd like to think Abe Pollin would, but I really can't say. Because, you know, down deep, that having your franchise pla... |
D.C.: What was the beef between Gil and Kwame all about, since both seem to have had it tough early on? You'd think these two would be close given what they've been through. |
Mike Wise: Young kids and that whole respect game. It doesn't make sense, but when they're older they'll realize how much they actually have in common. |
Mike Wise: Those are haunting misses. And if he gets in a similar situation and does it again -- big playoff game, season on the line -- then you start wondering if he's thinking about that. |
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