When David Stern asked Gilbert Arenas(notes) to cool it on any "I brought guns to the locker room for lord knows how long and mock-threatened a teammate with them and then joked about it" reflections, a little while back, I don't think this is what he had in mind.
I don't think Stern hoped for Arenas to show up to Wizards camp with a terribly uncomfortably-looking beard, change his number, not smile for pictures, refuse to talk to the media for days at a time, and somehow still find a way to draw negative attention to himself while sitting out of Washington's open scrimmages.
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