Gilbert Arenas Shoe-Pooping Story Has Another Twist

The Gil-Blatche shoe poop story form the mid-aught Wizards went viral before going viral was a thing anyone said. Years later, new info emerges about the saga.

Andray Blatche, Gilbert Arenas
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Andray Blatche, Gilbert Arenas

There's a case to be made about how the mid-2000s Washington Wizards spawned the basketball blog empires you see in 2018, as Deadspin pointed out. Part of that stems from personalities like Gilbert Arenas, Nick Young, and Javale McGee—but Gil leads the pack. Yes, the day Gil and Javaris Crittendon brandished hand guns in the team's locker room will live in infamy, but Agent Zero also once pooped on Andray Blatche's sneaker. On Friday, an important update surfaced on the eight-year-old story.

On Friday, Washington Post's Dan Steinberg found an important twist in the story when someone created a personalized shoutout from Gilbert Arenas on Cameo.

Here is a Gilbert Arenas thread. Reader Chris went to Cameo to order a message from Jon Taffer for a friend, when he noticed that Gilbert was now available on the site (1/)

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 14, 2018

As a D.C. sports fan in his 30s, Chris has an enduring fondness for Gilbert that probably doesn't make sense, but much of life doesn't make sense. So he paid for some Gilbert Arenas Christmas greetings (2/)

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 14, 2018

Then he figured maybe he should just see if Gil would go full Gil. So he requested a message for a friend who has been spending less time with Chris lately. Chris asked Gilbert to threaten to poop in the friend's shoe if he didn't go see Chris over the holidays (3/)

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 14, 2018

So that's why this video exists. You can watch it if you want. (4/) https://t.co/WnRlFn4J1v

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 14, 2018

Diabolical. Gil removed the sole before pooping in the shoe, then put the sole back in. Steinberg offers up a reality check for those of us old enough to remember when this story was a thing.

Is it sad or funny or gross or offensive? Yes. Also, Gilbert is getting older. Aren't we all. Anyhow, I never knew it went UNDER the sole. Learn something about sports every day. (5/5)

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 14, 2018

What's even more absurd than this update is that it's not even one of the 10 craziest moments of Arenas' career. 

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