Gilbert Arenas
Let’s say that you are 27 years old. You are working and being paid on a contract worth $111 million. You are a public personality. You have lawyers, doctors and trainers at your disposal.
Then let’s say that you are injured and your employer wants you to wait 6 months to return to work. At 4 months you badger your employer to let you return. So they let you. You are not 100%.
Who is responsible? Obviously not Gilbert Arenas. Arenas is a guard for the Washington Wizards. The other day he blamed the Wizards for accommodating his return.
If you have a kid that loves basketball, that eats, sleeps, drinks and thinks basketball and all he knows is basketball and he gets hurt and he’s your franchise player, you need to hold him back from himself. If I’m saying I feel good and you know it’s supposed to take six months, instead of letting me at four months run … they should have held me back. Rather than saying, ‘Let’s let this guy do what he wants and use him to sell tickets’ – sometimes you have to protect players from themselves. I don’t feel like I got that type of protection. But, I don’t judge them for that. Some things just happen. I told them I felt OK because I wanted to play, and they did what they did.
– Gilbert Arenas
Arenas needed protection…from HIMSELF. He is not responsible for himself. His employer is responsible for him.
If that part of the quote is not bad enough, he attacks the motives of the team. They just wanted to sell tickets.
I would love to see rich, public personalities accept responsible for their own actions. This mindset is all to common in our culture. I say it is time to “Man Up.”
