He wears No. 10 now, a throwback from his Team USA days, because "they don't let you have 0 and 00 on a team, even though you can have 1 and 11." Besides, Darrell Arthur already had the single-digit version of nothing, and the whole point of this exercise with the Memphis Grizzlies is that Gilbert Arenas isn't supposed to be calling attention to himself for frivolous reasons again.
Nothing attention-grabbing about No. 10. Nothing desperate or unnerving about the fact that Arenas grabbed his iPad and played a video game after the Grizzlies' game in Milwaukee the other night, swiping at moving targets for two or three minutes before looking up and seeing the reporters and cameras waiting for him to provide the A's to their Q's.
He wasn't, after all,...
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