Here’s the latest:

Gilbert Arenas wanted to play tonight but the medical staff would not clear him. Arenas went through shootaround this morning and was preparing himself to play all day long and was obviously angry at the decision. When I approached him, he said something that I can’t repeat hear but the clean version is something along lines of “Now, they are messing with my mind.”

He walked out of the locker room without speaking with reporters and will not be on the bench tonight because he said he does not a have sports coat (which is required by the NBA’s dress code).

On his way out of the door, he said: “Ya’ll don’t have to write anymore. I’m not coming back this season.”

Like Ivan suggests afterward, I don’t think Gilbert is going to miss the rest of the season because they wouldn’t clear him tonight.  He really had his heart set on playing tonight (hence why he didn’t have a sports coat with him) and when you hear that you can’t play, it makes you panic a little bit and think that maybe the injury is worse than it really is.  Just give him a little time to cool off and he’ll be fine.