Scoop Jackson wrote a piece on Arenas titled “The Hottest Star in Sports” that is featured on Page 2 of ESPN. In it, Gilbert discusses when he believed the moment was when he started getting noticed:

“Mine was back-to-back. The shot [a game-winning, walk-off jumper] against Chicago in Chicago in the playoffs [in 2005], and then the defensive play up here when I blocked Kirk Hinrich when they could have gone up by six in that game and instead we went down and scored. That was the tipping point for me. Kobe’s life changed when he hit that shot against Indiana [in the 2000 Finals]. That’s when everyone noticed Kobe. The same thing for me, everyone began to notice me after that shot against the Bulls.

“And from there it just began to build. And then when I missed the two free throws …”

You can read the entire article here.