How you ask? Through getting people jobs! DC Sports Bog has a story about how Garrett Scanlon was able to get a job as a ballboy with the Wizards through Gilbert’s Myspace page. I swear that I’m not making this up:
So anyhow, Gilbert and Garrett had met back in the Spring of ’06, in much the same way any NBA all-star and suburban high school junior meet nowadays: on the Internet. Garrett, a longtime Wiz fan from Montgomery County, had come across a mention of Gilbert’s Black President MySpace page. Like all of us Wiz Web aficionados, he saw the private pics of Gilbert with his daughter and friends and figured, huh, maybe this is really him.
So Garrett created a MySpace account, and messaged Gilbert, and Gilbert wrote back, and they began a correspondence about the usual stuff–Gil’s charity work, the NBA playoff series Gil was currently waging with LeBron James and the Cavs, etc.
Eventually, Garrett–still not convinced that his new electronic friend was actually Gibert Arenas–asked whether they might meet in person. Gil said sure, and directed Garrett to come down to the Verizon Center for one of his summer workouts in ’06.
The story only gets crazier from there so check it out.


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