Gilbert Arenas News

The Miami Heat try to continue their recent mastery of the Washington Wizards this evening when the Southeast Division foes square off at AmericanAirlines Arena.

Gilbert Arenas recently broke his self-imposed moratorium on speaking to reporters after a 22-point loss to San Antonio on Saturday.

When Brendan Haywood was asked Tuesday night about whether the Wizards' had improved their teamwork in the win over the Sixers, he agreed that they had.

He calls himself Agent Zero. His shirt number is a big, fat zero. And this accurately reflects the number of tweets Gilbert Arenas has posted to his Twitter account .

One year ago today, Eddie Jordan and wife Charrisse were handing out Thanksgiving turkeys to needy families at a Wizards-sponsored event.

The 76ers are still learning Eddie Jordan's Princeton offense. The Washington Wizards, who worked in the read-and-react, pass-and-cut schemes for five seasons-plus, can relate.

One year ago Tuesday, Eddie Jordan had just finished handing out Thanksgiving turkeys when he was informed that he had been relieved of his duties as head coach after a 1-10 start. And in a twisted coincidence of scheduling, Jordan returns to his home town on the anniversary of that firing as the head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers.

Jordan's former team has two of the pieces that he lacked for his final, futile season -- Gilbert Arenas and Brendan Haywood -- but the Wizards (3-9) have improved only slightly from this point last year, despite the addition of several new pieces and Coach Flip Saunders.

Always looking for ways to get more out of his players, Wizards coach Flip Saunders canceled the morning shootaround for the second straight game to allow his team to get extra rest.

The Washington Wizards may be only 12 games into the season, but at 3-9 - only one game better than last season at this point - the squad that was supposed to be a contender is again headed in the wrong direction.

Sometimes he calls himself Agent Zero, and sometimes it's Hibachi - but you know who he is.

Tony Parker scored 17 points and the San Antonio Spurs stopped a three-game losing streak with a 106-84 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night.

Kevin Durant scored 35 points, Russell Westbrook added 26 and the Oklahoma City Thunder had their highest-scoring output of the season in a 127-108 victory over the Washington Wizards on Friday night.

Charley Rosen recently wrote an interesting account of how Gilbert Arenas responded to some of Rosen's critiques of Arenas' game: A couple of years back, one of the Wizards public relations staff called in response to my pointing out that Gilbert Arenas tended to turn his head on defense and was burned by two or three backdoor plays every game.

No one in the Washington Wizards' locker room is calling Wednesday's 108-91 triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers a signature win.

Some people might ask whether this LeBron hatred stuff ever gets old, this reveling in the Wizards scoring one home win over another against a top-flight Cavs team no matter what their own record is.

LeBron James was stymied down the stretch by DeShawn Stevenson, Antawn Jamison delivered 31 points and 10 rebounds in his season debut, and the Washington Wizards beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-91 Wednesday night to end a six-game losing streak.

Last night, another special night for Dwyane Wade of your Miami Heat. He put on an unbelievable show against the Washington Wizards.

He tried serious. Surly even. He declared Agent Zero dead and retired the Hibachi.

Gilbert Arenas said he didn't want to be an entertainer anymore. Then he decided to reenlist his Agent Zero and Hibachi identities during the Washington Wizards' 106-103 loss to the Detroit Pistons on Saturday -- complete with his familiar palms up, hands-waving motion after a made basket.

'Everyone wants the fun guy back,' Arenas said after the loss. 'They feel with the fun guy, everyone gets to be looser.'

Arenas, though, is having an especially tough time finding his identity as a point guard, which is one reason the Wizards (2-7) have an inconsistent offense, are on a six-game losing streak and have the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference. Arenas has flourished as a scorer, making three all-star teams with his ability to erupt for large scoring outbursts, but admits he is struggling as the primary decision-maker under Coach Flip Saunders.

Bringing back Antonio Daniels was an option for the Wizards to get through their ongoing injury crisis, but Earl Boykins was always Washington's front-runner to pick up some of the guard minutes vacated by injuries to Randy Foye , Mike James and Javaris Crittenton and with Gilbert Arenas playing through calf soreness this week.