If you haven't started following Gilbert Arenas on Twitter (@gilbertarenas), you're missing out. Sure, he was late to the Twitter party, and he desperately wanted a million followers before he posted his first tweet. But for the guy who took athlete blogging to a new level, there should've been no doubt that his fearless, unique style would go gangbusters on Twitter. It's actually too bad it took the current controversy to get it going, and one can only wonder how long it lasts, given how much trouble he's in and given he'll eventually have to face NBA commissioner David Stern — Adrian Wojnarowski ominously reminds us at the end of this piece for Yahoo! Sports - once the legal side of this thing is completed.
Of course, so it happens that Arenas, who wasn't even speaking to the media at the beginning of the season, now has his own mouthpiece to refute that very Yahoo! story as well as to take on Peter Vescey and the New York Post for this story. Go see for yourself.
Meanwhile, Wizards head coach Flip Saunders doesn't tweet, but he also disputed claims made in the Yahoo! story. Here's how the conversation went with reporters after practice today. First, Saunders on his relationship with Arenas: "We still talk a lot. To me, Gil has been, on the floor and those things, what I’ve asked him to do, he’s never backed away from any challenge, where I’ve jumped him maybe for taking a bad shot or for maybe not doing something defensively. He’s never shied away from the criticism, and so I think our communication from that standpoint has been good. That has not wavered at all."
On whether Arenas has been a disruptive presence since training camps: "That's not true ...
Where they got information is totally untrue. He has not been in any kind of a situation along those lines. We’ve had meetings. We’ve had film sessions. He’s been on time, he’s been very productive.We chart our timeouts, we keep track of what guys are saying. He's been as much of a vocal leader as anybody on our team. That's one of the things, the situation that’s happened, people try to lump a lot of things together. It’s really not fair to him."
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