I don’t know if any of you followed the story last week out of DC that Gilbert Arenas allegedly stored unloaded guns in a locker room in the Verizon Center and handed then over to authorities. His reasoning was he didn’t want the guns around with three young children in the house. Makes sense right?

Well…

Details (The best piece yet on the subject after David Aldridge’s great reporting set the bar high earlier) are emerging that Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were involved in an incident involving those three guns. Gilbert speaks of it and another incident on his Twitter timeline. He seems to downplay this as a joke gone awry. We are probably not going to get the full story on what exactly went down, but Jones’ piece is the most we’ve gotten so far. Gilbert Arenas is beloved in DC and does so much for the community but having guns in the locker room…loaded or not…was not smart. Abe Polin, R.I.P., would be sick. How this plays out will have a lasting impact on the franchise.

These are the stories that tend to get out of hand and I’m honored to say that David Aldridge, Mike Lee and Mike Jones have all done a great job reporting this as accurately as possible. Mark Stein on the other hand was digging deep into the demographic by actually including a preposterous reference to the 2004 incident in Detroit.

No.

The two have nothing to do with the other. There will also be writers speaking about the number of players who own guns.

Do you see why we do what we do here? There shouldn’t be any generalizations in dealing with what went down in DC because this is a situation all of its own so please reporters, stick to the script. Thank God the NY Post piece wasn’t the sole source. Thank you brothas for hopping on as quick as you did.

This is the reason why we need diversity in journalism.

Do you get it now? It doesn’t have to be all about snark. Good work fellas.

A recent (A DC win vs. Cleveland) locker room presser with Gilbert and Antawn (his first game back).

Chris Webber Part IV later today or early tomorrow. This happened over the weekend. Posting it now because of no Monday links.

News on Twitter spreads fast and I think it was Dwele who broke the passing of Baatin on the social network. There was great tribute and respect given after the news struck. I immediately was upset because Slum Village was one of my favorite Hip Hop acts. Grown folk smooth, hardcore rough I used to say about the group because nothing was off limits lyrically and the beats were always Dilla tight. Yeah, anything else just won’t do. I dig that smooth stuff because life is tough enough. When it’s time to chill, I want it easy. Music is peace to me in this particular form. Slum Village speaks to my mind. I could bang Dilla every minute of the day and not listen to anything else.

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When the Flyers signed  former Ottawa Senators goalie Ray Emery earlier this month, two questions came to mind - what took them so long and how long will the marriage last?

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Crazy how sports changes in a year. Last year this time, Derrick Rose and Memphis lost dramatically to Kansas on a legendary Mario Chalmers bomb. Depending on my work schedule, I would love to live blog tonight as well. We’ll see. Hope you all had a decent weekend. I’m covering a panel this morning discussing high school drop out rates that’s moderated by Stephen A. Smith. Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, future Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins, Keith Russell, Ken Shropshire and Gary G. Cobb are among the panelists. I’ll have a report this week. Have a good Monday.

Dante Stallworth was already in a substance abuse program. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Gary Washburn comments on Geno Auriemma discussing race. (Gary Washburn’s Sports Blog)

Ashley Fox’s excellent series on North Philly: Bernard Hopkins. (Philly.com)

Africa for the Africans. (The Nation)

Jamie Foxx fights off crazy dude in Philly. (CBS3.com)

Earthquake kills at least 50 in Italy (NY Times)

What is the value of an African American life? (Powahatan Today)

The following was originally posted on February 22, 2008–43 years, one day after Malcolm’s death.

Today would have been his 83rd birthday.

Reminisce with bliss of what a day this could have been…

I’ve never seen this before. Notice how proud Ali was taking this pic

Slept on the anniversary of the death of Malcolm X yesterday. My bad. Here’s a compilation of speeches during those fiery times. Goodness I wish I was there. Would be honored to meet Malcolm and bring back a well needed sense of urgency. His was the spirit of unapologetic passionate knowledge and wisdom cultivated through hellish personal experience and an unabated hunger to see his people through.

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My adviser and I had a conversation after Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice were elected into the MLB Hall of Fame. We thought it was ridiculous Rickey wasn’t the first unanimous choice strictly because of his impact on the game. Anyone steal 130 bases lately? Nah. How about 2190 walks? Didn’t think so. You walked him, he scored and he shook up your pitcher and entire defense in the process. Anyway, does Rickey crack your all time lineup? This was my adviser’s lineup: RF Aaron, CF Mays, LF Henderson, 3B Rose, SS Banks, 2B Morgan, 1B Ruth, P  Ryan, C  Bench. I added a manager, right and left handed pitchers and a closer. No position changes in the outfield.

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(Photo: AP/Mark Duncan)

TNT’s NBA Coverage continues Thursday, Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. ET with the Cleveland Cavaliers @ Chicago Bulls followed by the Phoenix Suns @ Denver Nuggets

Game #1:  Washington Wizards (89) @ Cleveland Cavaliers (93)

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