A few months after Cleveland Cavaliers guard, Delonte West, was stopped just short of reenacting a scene from Braddock: Missing in Action III, Washington Wizards teammates, Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton, were caught mimicking the action from Reservoir Dogs. News came out that the two argued over a gambling debt in the Wizards lockeroom and the situation wasn’t resolved until they found themselves in a Mexican standoff. On Christmas Eve. How Crittenton drew so quickly is still a mystery but we now know that a whistle was always handy as Arenas kept a cache of guns in his locker.

It’s interesting to note that Plaxico Burress is rotting away in jail because he accidentally discharged a concealed weapon into his own leg. Of course, that happened in New York where they have these things called laws (and hard-ons like Mike Bloomberg and Robert Morgenthau). As it stands now, police in Washington are “looking into” the matter and for Arenas’ part, there doesn’t seem to be too much concern. According to Gil, he used “bad judgment” and the only reason authorities are probing the situation is to make sure his work-based arsenal doesn’t contain any “dirty guns.”

It’s a tough beat when a few heavily-armed apples spoil the whole image of the NBA. Then again, the NBA is comprised of 4 or 5 star players, a few dozen irrelevant franchises and an out-of-touch, antiquated leader in David Stern whose tenure is owed to the fact Michael Jordan feel into his lap. Stern really handled the Delonte West fiasco well: West has played in 26 of the Cavs’ 36 games this season after being accidentally stopped on his way to committing mass murder. It’ll be fun to see what remedy Stern has in mind for Arenas and Crittenton after doing their best to make NBAers look like postal employees.