He who yells "Hibachi" won me a very competitive fantasy league back in 2005-2006. From 2004-2007, Arenas was a no-brainer first round pick. A guy you didn't have to worry about all season. During that period ('04-'07), you'd be hard pressed to find a more productive point guard. In that three year stretch he averaged 27.8 points, 5.7 assists, 2.6 threes, and 1.9 steals per game. He also shot appx 82.4% from the charity stripe and got to the line 9.2 times a game (which was huge for me in '05 as I had a young FT-brick machine named Dwight Howard on my team that year).
Well after taking nearly two full seasons off nursing "a knee," he's back. It's weird. If you're like me, you kind of forgot about Agent Zero. We've been chasing around the next best thing: the Devin Harris', the Brandon Roy's. And rightly so - we had to move on. Two recent drafts I was involved in saw Gil drafted at 42 and 43 overall near the likes of Andris Biedrins, Al Horford and Rudy Gay. One writer recently stated that you can make a case for Arenas' ADP being a steal or a reach. After thinking about this I'm leaning toward a steal.
Arenas is only 27 years old. He is a tremendous shooter which doesn't just go away. He plays on a team with some decent weapons: Jamison, Butler, Miller, Foye. Moreover, he has to play (even if he believes he doesn't have to give interviews). He makes an awful lot of money and he's signed through 2014!! Wow. Read: He's not going anywhere.
As long as the knee holds up, I think we're all going to be kicking ourselves for not drafting Gilbert Arenas when he was available in the 3rd round.
Magic eightball:
22.1 ppg, 4.1 reb, 6.9 apg, 2.1 3pt, 1.6 stl, .2 Blk, 3.2 TO's, 42%(FG) 82% (FT)
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