Michael Lee is reporting that Gilbert Arenas didn’t receive an invite to try out for the 2008 Olympic team this season. The news was hardly a shock, considering that the controversy surrounding his 2006 appearance and his injuries last season and this season. Although he said in a recent blog entry that he would rather have a gold medal than an NBA ring, he’s ready to move on with his career:

I just said, ‘You know what, that’s a dream that’s just past.’ I got my chance to play and I got in a couple of games with the USA jersey on, and I satisfied a hunger I had as a child.”