Some screen shots of Gilbert Arenas in the upcoming EA Sports NBA Live 08.

Not exactly, but when EA Sports simulated the series using a healthy Arenas on NBA Live, Washington not only won the series in seven but Agent Zero went for 47 points in the decisive 108-104 Game Seven win, including a clutch three-pointer with less than a minute to play.

One could only wonder how the series would have been different with a healthy Gilbert Arenas (and Caron Butler)

Thanks to Gilbertology reader CWebb, who sent in a blog post by Yahoo! Sport’s Adrian Wojnarowski that rips Gilbert Arenas for calling a press conference congratulating himself for being on the cover of NBA Live 08, while his teammates are on the verge of being swept in their first round playoff matchup against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

This was the wrong time, the wrong place, for Arenas to be celebrating his favorite topic — himself. All that Saturday should’ve been about was encouraging his teammates to make an improbable bid to get back into the series with Cleveland. After all, that’s what franchise players say in the playoffs.

I guess Wojnarowski forgot to point out the quote in the press conference where Arenas talked about his team.

“We were one of the best teams at one point, and a lot of teams are scared of us. A lot of teams are going to be scared of us next year, too, when we’re all healthy.”

Arenas’s, who spends most of his free time playing video games, is justified in his enthusiasm and happiness for being selected to appear on the cover of one of the most popular franchise basketball games of all time. Sure the timing of it all could have been better but to call him selfish is quite a ridiculous statement.

Perhaps Wojnarowski doesn’t know the contributions that Gilbert makes to local schools and his Zero2Hero foundation. What other player in the NBA, let alone All-Star, will take time to personalize his jersey and shoes to his fans, give away customized Agent Zero jerseys, and donate to charity every point he scores.

And about Gilbert’s commitment to the team?

“So far I’m ruling everything out — trips, vacation,” Arenas said. “I’m ruling them all out until I’m 100 percent because the Wizards come first.”

Check out Gilbert’s updated blog post about being on the cover of NBA Live. Get ready for some great commercials because Gilbert will be in charge.

They’re giving me full control of the design, the commercials and like they’re letting me do my own media about it.

I got some hidden marketing plans. I don’t want to tell them now, they’re still in the making. I’m thinking about doing a NBA LIVE tour. I’m going to try all kinds of things to keep it popping. This is going to be the year!

And of course he’s going to be giving some away when it comes out in Oct.

October 1st or 2nd. Y’all be at them stores. You know what? I’ll even go to the store and buy a couple copies and give them out on GilsArena.com for free.

For those with XBox, make sure you add Gilbert’s new handle.

For all my online video gamers, I changed my gamer tag from Loose Cannon to Agent Arenas.

A press conference/interview with Gilbert Arenas, the newly crowned NBA Live 08 cover athlete.

Gilbert Arenas behind the scenes and thoughts.

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