Who is Gilbert Arenas?

Recommended reading: Saturday's Sally Jenkins sympathetic-yet-tough piece in the Washington Post on the Wizards' troubled star.

Of his attempt to play the locker room gangster, Jenkins writes:

"What a weak-willed, fraudulent gesture, to pretend to be someone lesser instead of someone better. And that's the deeper offense that Arenas has committed; it's what underlies our anger at him, and our sorrow for him, and our bafflement. The most winsome, talented young man in town is indefinitely suspended from the NBA, and facing a grand jury, because he stepped down instead of up. He didn't have a strong enough sense of self to shrug off a quarrel, and had to go one-up on the dumbest guy in locker room."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010802166.html