Gilbert made a vow, and he took it to the bank!

His scoring onslaught would’ve been his highest scoring game of the season had it not been for his 60 point game 3 nights before.

If you re-arrange the letters in Gilbert Arenas’ name you get “Breasting Earl.”  If you re-arrange Gilbert Arenas’ location and put him in Seattle, you get “Beating Earl (Watson)!”

There’s no such thing as a shark attack, but Nacho attacks are very, very real.  Just ask Los Angeles.

Michael Lee of Wizards Insider talked to Ben Gordon and Luol Deng of the Bulls about the comments Gilbert made on his blog regarding their contracts. First, here’s what Ben Gordon had to say:

“I was shocked, really,” Gordon said. “You don’t expect that from one of your peers. You expect that from people who write stuff in the papers, commentators, things like that. You don’t expect that from somebody on the inside who goes through the same things that players go through all the time.”

I asked Gordon if he planned on talking to Arenas in Washington if he gets the chance. “It’s said and done,” he said. “If he doesn’t have the judgment to use discretion and realize we’re all professionals out here, everybody is a grown man, everybody has to make their decision for whatever their reason is.

“I don’t know. I just think there is a time and place for everything to be voiced. It just didn’t seem like it was right, you know, what he did.”

Gordon said he didn’t plan any sort of rebuttal on his own NBA.com blog. “That’s not my style,” Gordon said as he walked away.

Luol Deng said this:

“I read it. My people told me about it. That’s Gilbert, though,” Deng said. “That’s him speaking out. Everybody has their own opinion. I’m not going to be the kind of guy to go back and forth. I’m not that kind of person. If it was him, maybe he wouldn’t have took it. But he has to know the whole situation. It’s easy to say somebody got offered this and didn’t take it. But you got to go into the whole situation and what happened. It’s really okay with me.”

I know they play it up that they’re upset about Gilbert talking about their contracts in public, but I can’t help but think that they’re really upset about this:

UPDATE: Ivan Carter (the other half of Wizards Insider) added his thoughts on the whole situation:

If I were wearing the shoes of Deng, Gordon, Okafor or any other young player facing a tough contract decision, I would appreciate reading/hearing the point of view of someone like Gilbert because A) he’s been through it before and B) he’s faced injury and understands the risk/reward factors. I’ve always found Gilbert’s takes on these kinds of things to be refreshing because he really puts time into thinking about them. Believe me, he knows what every player in the league makes, who their agent is/was and whether or not they got fair value. He pays attention to that stuff.

No one will ever call Fred Taylor nacho or hibachi.

Fred Taylor tried to get into the Pro Bowl by using a play out of Gilbert’s playbook. Needless to say, if it didn’t work for Gilbert it definitely wasn’t going to work for Fred.