NBA Wizard’s Gilbert Arenas Went To Taft High School
LA Times Image of Gilbert Arenas (He is making his OJ Simpson face.)
A pretty good article in the LA Times takes a look at the locker room gun drawing situation between Gilbert Arenas and his teammate Javaris Crittenton. I was surprised to recently learn that Arenas went to Taft High School here in Woodland Hills.
A little blurb from the LA Times article:
As a young player at Woodland Hills Taft High, Arenas was overlooked by all the biggies, getting a scholarship offer from Arizona only after another player pulled out.
No matter how high Arenas climbed, which was very high, indeed, it was easy to see no one trusted his success less than he did.
“He’s a very sweet kid, good natured, big heart, very giving when given a chance,” Howard Levine, his coach at Taft, once said, “but he’s got some issues. . . .
“He challenges everybody to, ‘What are you going to do, are you going to leave me?’ ”
Friendly, if loud, betting arguments with teammates and friends were frequent. Action was a way of life for Arenas, who once won a car in a video game with an old friend from the Valley, and collected.
If you’re into sports or the NBA the article is worth reading.
Correction (from the LA Times):
FOR THE RECORD:
Gilbert Arenas’ high school: An NBA column on an alleged incident involving handguns in the Washington Wizards’ locker room that appeared in Sunday’s Sports section said the Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas went to Woodland Hills Taft High. Arenas attended Van Nuys Grant.
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Did he live around this area or was he bused in? I remember the shooting a while back in front of the bus stop. Agent Zero’s press statement was that he was goofing around with the unloaded gun and it was not over a debt argument with Jarvis C. The last line above says otherwise!
Not sure where he lived, maybe I’ll try to dig up more of a bio on him later. Yes, the story has been whitewashed in an attempt, no doubt, for him to avoid felony brandishing charges or worse. It’s just going to depend on if there were witness and what they saw. I’ve been a little lax in my following of the story, until of course I realized he went to Taft.