[Old General Record] The First Generation of Gun King! Washington Savior!

"It is precisely because of the Wizards that there are infinite possibilities!"

In 1997, Washington Wizards boss Abbe Polling officially replaced the team name that had been used for more than 30 years: the bullet. In addition to hoping to do its best to fight violence, he also hopes that the team's operating report card will be better after the name change. Since the last time he won the championship, it has been nearly 20 years ago. The bullet has become a Wizard, symbolizing a new start.

The Bullets at that time, with skilled defender Rod Strickland as the center of possession, combined with the gradually growing genius Chris Weber and Juwan Howard, one of the Five Michigan Tigers, ended the Bullets' record for 8 years missing the playoffs in the 1996-97 season. However, even if the name was changed, the team did not so easily soar. They handed over 42 wins and 40 losses in the 1997-98 season, which was only two wins and the previous season, and were eventually kicked out of the playoffs.

After that, Weber was traded to the Kings, and a few years later, he became the famous King Five Tigers; Juwan Howard was traded to the Dallas Mavericks because his performance was not as good as expected; Rod Strickland was bought out by the Wizards in the last year of the contract, and since then he became a homeless man. After the Wizards changed their name, they still rolled at the bottom and continued to miss the playoffs.

made a second comeback. On September 25, 2001, Michael Jordan, who once served as an executive of the Wizards after retirement, announced that he would return to the court again. This move caused a sensation in the whole world. His feat also successfully made the Wizards' popularity soar again. Jordan, who was 38 years old at the age of 38, has poor data as good as the Bulls, but he still leads the Wizards, rising from 19 wins the previous year to 37 wins. Although he still misses the playoffs, it is a very outstanding result in terms of commercial exposure.

But even the God of Basketball still has to bow to the years, ruthlessly destroying the injury, and said goodbye again in his second season of his comeback.

Since his name change, he has not made the playoffs for six consecutive seasons, and Jordan was fired from the team's management by the Wizards after he retired, and invited Grenfeld to serve as the new general manager, and since then he began his 16-year general manager career.

In the 2002-03 season, Warriors' sophomore Arenas handed over basic data of 18.3 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 6.3 assists, achieving the fastest progress of the year. In just two seasons, he grew from an unpopular second-round rookie to the key to affecting the victory or defeat on the field. Grenfeld's first shot after taking office was to prepare to sign Arenas with a lot of money.

However, the labor-management clause at that time, if a second-round player who had already made a fortune during the rookie contract, it would be quite unfavorable for the parent team to renew the contract. At most, the Warriors who could only offer a middle-class contract were unable to follow up with the huge 60 million contract issued by the Wizards. Later, in order to protect the rights and interests of the parent team, the Arenas clause was born.

We all know the later story. Arenas chose the Wizards, but what is interesting is that in addition to the Wizards, the Clippers also offered a high price to grab people, and Arenas finally chose to throw coins, but the result of the throw was the Clippers, but he did not bow to fate. Now he has gone the other way and joined the Wizards.

Alinas, who just came to the Wizards, was affected by his abdominal muscles. He only played 52 games in 2003-04, and was still in the running-in stage with the new lineup. The Wizards of that year only had 25 wins and 57 losses, and missed the playoffs for seven consecutive years. Under the embarrassing record, Arenas still handed over the team's best 19.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and 5 assists.

The team reorganized the lineup around Arenas. During the offseason, Starkhouse, who was missing due to injury last season, was packaged with the deal, and Devin Harris sent to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for the best sixth man, Antoine Jamison.

In the 2004-05 season, Arenas joined hands with Larry Hughes to form the strongest backcourt in the league at that time. The two averaged 47.5 points per game. The former was selected as the All-Star for the first time in his career, while Hughes missed the match, but he still averaged 2.9 steals per game and was selected as the Best Defensive Team of the Year and successfully won the steal king.

Double guns and third core Jamison, the Wizards ended their seven-year record of missing the playoffs with 45 wins and 37 losses. It was also the first time that the Wizards entered the playoffs after changing their name, defeating the fourth Bulls with the fifth bottom in the division. The Heat, led by O'Neal and Wade, were swept out in the second round.

After the season, Larry Hughes, one of the backcourt double guns, transferred to Cleveland after the Cavaliers gave him 70 million for five years, and instantly lost a giant Wizards. He accidentally dealt with Kwame Brown, who never met the expectations of the No. 1 pick, and exchanged Caron Butler from the Lakers to form a new lineup of Three Musketeers.

In that year, the three players averaged 67.4 points in basic data, and the Wizards averaged 101.1 points, ranking third in the league. Arenas scored a career-high 29.3 points per game. Unfortunately, he missed the All-Star selection that year, but because the Pacers O'Neal Jr. withdrew due to injury, Arenas was able to make up for the selection.

In the 2006 playoffs, the Wizards entered the playoffs again with a fifth record of 42 wins and 40 losses. When they met their former teammate Hughes transferred, they could not stop James from attacking. The latter averaged 35.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.7 assists in the entire series. Although the Wizards Arenas also handed in 34 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.3 assists to fight back, they were still eliminated by the Cavaliers 4-2.

It was also at this time that Arenas began his own destiny.

Of course, when it comes to Arenas, the most famous one is his big heart. Looking at the history of the Wizards, it is difficult for predecessors to be able to match his position..

In the first round of 2005, the Bulls who were away from each other ended in defeat in the first two games, but after returning to home, they won two steadily. The key Tianwangshan, the Wizards who played away from home fought to the last moment, and in the last wave of attacking the Wizards' ball, Arenas broke through directly from the halftime in the last three seconds, and then directly pulled out a mid-range jump shot, successfully reversing the victory away, laying a chance to advance in one fell swoop.

In the first round of 2006, facing the Cavaliers, the Wizards fell into a 2-3 dilemma in the sixth game. In the last 5 seconds of the fourth quarter, the Wizards fell behind 104-107, and the Wizards served in the halftime. At this time, Arenas directly shot a long three-pointer from outside the three-point line, forcibly equalized the game and entered overtime. Unfortunately, the Wizards were eliminated by the Cavaliers by one point.

All kinds of unreasonable finale performances were three times in the 2006-07 season alone. In the game away from the Lakers in December, facing Kobe, who had 45 points, 8 rebounds and 10 assists, the crazy Arenas scored 60 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists in the game, helping the Wizards defeat the Lakers 147-141, which was his highest score in the Wizards history.

In the All-Star Voting of that year, Arenas narrowly beat Carter in the East and was selected as the All-Star Starter with the highest vote in the East. However, the most glorious season was also the most important turning point in his career.

In the 2007 match against the Bobcats, Arenas was hit by Gerald Wallace when he fell to the ground, causing the medial ligament of the knee torn and was reimbursed throughout the season, and the Wizards who lost Arenas met James again in the first round. Although Jamison and Butler forced their efforts to turn the tide, others still could not make up for Arenas' offensive vacancy and were eventually swept out by the Cavaliers and lost to the Cavaliers for two consecutive years in the playoffs.

Arenas, who was eager to come back, conducted early shooting training in the offseason in 2007, resulting in the inability to recuperate his knees. He only played 13 games in the 2007-08 season, interrupting his All-Star record for three consecutive years.

Even though Arenas missed almost the entire season, the Wizards entered the playoffs with 43 wins and 39 losses, but they were also very unlucky. The opponent in the first round was still the Cavaliers. Although the team played a big score in the third game, they were still unable to make up for the situation and were eliminated by the Cavaliers for the third time 2-4. Since then, Arenas never made it to the playoffs again.

In the offseason in 2008, Arenas jumped out of the contract for the last year. The Wizards agreed to provide a top contract of 6 years and 110 million yuan, but Arenas' injury recovery was not ideal in the season. He did not return to play two games until the end of the season. The Wizards only had 19 wins and 63 losses, winning the second worst record after the team's name was changed at that time.

When the 2009-10 season, Arenas fully recovered, but he was no longer the No. 0 Assassin in the past. His knee injury took away the explosive power of the sports. He has not played healthy in the past for the past, resulting in his skills being inferior to the past. Various data have dropped significantly, but this has not affected the attitude of the Wizards until the outbreak of the unexpected:

December 20, 2009: Gun incident

On a flight from Phoenix to Washington, teammates broke out due to gambling. In the fight, Arenas, the big brother of the team, wanted to mediate both sides, but the method was a little too extreme, and directly yelled trash talk to try to ease the atmosphere, but it triggered a roar from his teammates' roaring response:

"Okay, I will bring you some guns to shoot me!"

Afterwards, in the locker room, Arenas directly showed four unloaded pistols, claiming to let the other party choose one, but unexpectedly the other party also brought his own gun. The scene was once quite dangerous, and finally calmed down with the intervention of security personnel.

On December 24, Arenas admitted that possessing firearms not only violated the NBA's ban clauses, but also violated the laws of Washington, DC. Until January 7 of the following year, the league announced that it would ban Arenas indefinitely. After that, Arenas was punished by law. In addition to being sentenced to probation, he was also banned by the league for 50 games. Another protagonist of the

incident was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2011 for shooting a woman.

This dispute basically ruined Arenas' NBA career.

At the end of 2009, former Wizards boss Abbe Polling passed away, and Ted Leonsis officially became the new Wizards boss. However, a gun-carrying incident broke out soon after, and then Arenas's indefinite suspension caused the Wizards' senior management to be disheartened and decided to enter reconstruction and send all other main players away directly. The Wizards completely entered the stage of bad performance.

Fortunately, he drew the No. 1 pick in the 2010 draft, selected John Wall from Kentucky, and rebuilt the lineup after establishing it as the core. In December 2010, Arenas was sent to the Magic. In addition to overlapping positions on the court, the team's senior management was also afraid that Arenas' negative image would affect future development.

After the Magic, Arenas played 49 games, with only 8 points per game, and was eventually abandoned by the Magic in the 2011-12 season; in the subsequent 2011-12 season, the Grizzlies reached an agreement with him using a veteran contract, but only allowed him to play 12.4 minutes per game. After the season ended, Arenas was already indifferent. In the end, he chose to announce his retirement in November 2013, ending his NBA career.

Looking back at the Wizards era, he averaged 37.2 minutes per game, 23 points, 4 rebounds and 5.4 assists, with an overall shooting percentage of 45.7%, and a three-point shooting percentage of 35.1%, and was a three-time All-Star.

As the first person to start the Wizards' era, he led the Wizards to end the dilemma of missing the playoffs for seven years and was the player with the highest score in a single game in the team's history; he scored 969 three-point goals, which was not until later broken by Bill; the number of final kills in the Wizards' history was the first in the history of the Wizards, with at least 50 points in a single game, and at least 40 points in a single game as high as 28. It is a rare scoring machine in the team's history. These are the results he completed at around the age of 25, and can be called the top first player in the team's history.

Unfortunately, it was an accidental injury. Everything he had began to gradually lose, and his peak skills were gone forever. His career as an explosion brought the Wizards to a new level in just a few years. Unfortunately, under his injury, his falling speed was quite fast..

The personality and temper were not calm enough, which led to the outbreak of gun-holding incidents, which indirectly ended his NBA career and allowed him to bid farewell to the NBA at the peak of 30 years old.

If he had a more mature mindset at that time and handled the dispute with his teammates well, perhaps the Wizards would not have given up on him so quickly. Even though his skills were no longer at the salary level, he would not have become a homeless man after that and eventually left the NBA early.

Most of the new fans in the new era have never seen Arenas play. The first impression of him is probably this gun-carrying incident, but if he forgets his contribution to the Wizards, it is definitely wrong.