Not only was Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas named NBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week, but he’s also an obsessive bowler, according to the New York Times.
During high school in Los Angeles, he was in bowling leagues. When his friends suggested an outing last summer, he was eager. “We started gambling, playing for push-ups,” he said. “I lost and I had to do 300 push-ups right there. So the next morning I went bowling. Then we all went bowling – every day for three months straight of the summer.”
Arenas’s high game after all that work? A 277, after a spare, finishing with all strikes. He has three custom bowling balls (two 16-pounders and a transparent 14-pounder with a boxing glove inside) and his own shoes.
Since that’s an interesting thing with virtually nothing else interesting out there about it, we went to Arenas’s home page, which is being cybersquatted by some AZ fansite. That’s really crappy – you’d think the guys would give one of their high-profile alums their own domain.
We shot off an email to them to ask about this, in our ongoing attampt to get people mad at us, much like the lawyer who tricked us into taking down the cheerleader pics over on YAYfootball!.
If you’re wondering, Marcus Camby of the Nuggets is the Western Conference choice.
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