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Shaquille O’Neal and his estranged wife Shaunie O’Neal have finalized their divorce according to TMZ.

Both parties have reached agreement on various issues including property, child custody and support. Which basically means Shaq’s new alias will be “The Big-Alimonius”.

Under the agreement, the Florida courts will have jurisdiction to officially divorce the couple and handle any issues that may arise involving property division and spousal support.

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Miami Heat point guard Carlos Arroyo has been charged with resisting arrest after police say he was pulled over for driving suspiciously.

The Coral Gables Police Department reports that a motorcycle officer made several attempts to pull Arroyo over Friday morning. After Arroyo was stopped, police say he refused to get out of his vehicle several times before complying.

Arroyo was charged with operating a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to block traffic, failure to obey a lawful order and resisting arrest without violence.

Miami Heat President Pat Riley declined to comment on the arrest.

Arroyo released a statement saying he was on his way to practice when he was stopped. He says the matter will be resolved in his favor when all the facts come out in court.

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WTF? Former NBA All-Star Alvin Robertson has been slapped with sexual assault of a child, trafficking an underage child for purposes of sex and forcing a sexual performance by a child according to the Globe and Mail.

Authorities claim Robertson kidnapped a 14-year-old girl from San Antonio, forced her to have sex with clients and to dance at a Corpus Christi strip club last year. Forget the thesaurus, let me say it again WTF? Read More »

From the not so shocking file, Gilbert Arenas was officially suspended for the remained of the 2009-2010 NBA season by his own request to commissioner David Stern after the two met to discuss the all-star guards fate according to the Washington Post.

Arenas also told the commissioner that he would not have the players union fight on his behalf to have the suspension reduced for the incident that occurred in the Wizards locker room. However this probably does not limit his suspension to the remained of the season and his $111 million deal with the Wizards still hangs in the balance.

Arenas also hinted to friends, that he would like to move on from playing for the Washington Wizards and team President Ernie Grunfeld. I don’t know about you, but I still smell some more suspension time coming Arenas’ way at the very least.

via Washington Post

I’m all for everybody getting their paper to make a living, but if the Washington Wizards yank Gilbert Arenas’ contract. I really don’t think he’ll end up on the street, and it would be the best deterrent for future would be gunslingers.

To escape paying Gilbert Arenas the rest of his clogging contract — $80.2 million for four years after this season — the Wizards may seek to void the deal, and do so by invoking the morals clause in the uniform player contract under the league’s collective bargaining agreement. The Wizards have distanced themselves from Arenas since the handgun incident, removing his likeness from the Verizon Center and issuing terse statements that could be a precursor to an attempt to void the deal.

Even if the Wizards void his contract, I’m guessing that the players association will file an appeal on his behalf and drag this thing out further. I’m just interesting to see who will still be in the Arenas corner when all the dust settles.

Via New York Times

In the past I’ve joked about Arenas owning Tonz O’ Gunz, partly because I’m a Gang Starr fan and well — dude had one gun per pocket when the Crittenton stand off happened at the Verizon Center. Little did I know that those four guns was just the tip of the iceberg in Arenas’ arsenal.

“As a grand jury continues to hear the details of the gun incident involving Gilbert Arenas, WTOP has learned the Washington Wizards’ star has — at times — owned several hundred guns.

Okay, I understand an Americans right to own a gun and blah, blah, blah. But to me, if I have a

Multiple sources tell WTOP that Arenas moved those weapons out of his Virginia home within the past year, long before the incident at the Verizon Center. By all accounts, the guns in Arenas’ collection were legally owned, yet it’s unclear how many he actually owned or still owns.”

Sure, I understand an Americans right to bar arms and blah, blah, blah. But who gave Arenas the right to have a travelling road show to display his weapons collection? This situation is going from terrible to super terrible each day and I’m really starting to doubt the possibility of Arenas playing NBA basketball in 2010. What a mess.

via WTOP

This Wizards gun deally is just getting from bad to worse as more details come to light. WTF!

The two players had been arguing during a card game on the Wizards’ flight back from Phoenix Dec. 19, and the dispute spilled into the team locker room at Verizon Center before practice two days later. Arenas has acknowledged bringing his handguns to the arena and displaying them in the locker room that morning in what he maintained was a playful gesture aimed at his teammate. According to two first-hand accounts of the confrontation, Crittenton responded to Arenas’s action — which included laying the four unloaded weapons in Crittenton’s cubicle with a note that read, “Pick One” — by brandishing his own firearm, loading the gun and chambering a round.

Seriously, if Jarvis Crittenton plays in anything more than a basketball beer league when this is all said and done I’d be surprised. The NBA is a money making entity so I get that somebody hungry to fill the stands will give Arenas another shot in the league. However, I have never heard of anybody wanting to see Crittenton play because I don’t know his family.

Arenas is probably going to get a year off minimum for his actions, so what the heck will Crittenton get is now the burning question.

via Washington Post

By now you have probably heard the oh so funny tale of Gilbert Arenas bringing Tonz ‘O’ Gunz to the Verizon Center as a joke that only the late Billy Cole found remotely funny. Well, Arenas has finally released a statement about the incident / prank, but I doubt it will help his NBA or legal fate.

After the jump, Arenas’ statement.

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If you have a domain name that shouldn’t be yours — Chis Bosh will find you. Then sue you, then perhaps dunk on you. Okay, maybe not the last one, but definitely the first two.

Bosh won custody of the names after winning a $120,000 (U.S.) award in April 2009 for the violation of his rights under the U.S. Federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in a California federal court.

The ruling came against Luis Zavala and his company Hoopology.com, who had registered the domain www.chrisbosh.com and displayed ads using Bosh’s name to generate revenue without having any association to Bosh.

I’m not a big fan of the CB4 nickname Bosh has, so with the release of this story I’ll table “Domain Santa” or “Domain Hood” as possible other nicknames Bosh can use. Who’s with me?

via Toronto Star

Cavaliers guard Delonte West was arrested Thursday night near his offseason home in Maryland for weapons possession.

According to the police report, West was charged with at least two counts of handgun on person, and for driving the vehicle in excess of reasonable and prudent speed. He was pulled over on his motorcycle in Upper Marlboro, Md. on I-495.

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