Okay, I feel a little creepy for speculating why Gilbert Arenas chose to wear uniform No. 9, as relayed by the Bog’s Dan Steinberg and the Tweet of Michael Lee, over No. 6 or No. 0 for next season, which will undoubtedly be his most trying as a basketball player … all things considered.
I was told his new number could have something to do with this mother, who passed away on March 13. So, I speculated that Gilbert might wear No. 13. But in hindsight, that was too easy. Nothing is ever easy with Mr. Arenas.
I really don’t care to guess much more about why No. 9, but I will leave you with this paragraph from Mike Wise’s excellent, excellent profile on Arenas which appeared in the Washington Post in late October 2006:
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[UPDATE: Gilbert will wear No. 9]
Arenas could wear lucky No. 13 next season, who knows, but he certainly won’t be wearing No. 6.
Today a league source indicated that Gilbert Arenas decided to change his jersey number, again, evidently, and filed the necessary paperwork with the NBA prior to the March deadline.
According to initial reports, confirmed by league spokesman Tim Frank to the AP in mid-March, Arenas submitted paperwork to change from jersey No. 0 to No. 6 for the 2010-11 season.
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[UPDATE: An update on this topic has been posted here.]
[UPDATE #2: Arenas has chosen a number.]
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You gotta love the interaction between Ted Leonsis and “bloggers” … specifically, Dan Steinberg and his DC Sports Bog.
On June 14th, Leonsis, the open and candid one, blogged about his first impressions of emails from Wizards fans and included a listed synopsis of the concerns brought to him.
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First the Reebok announcement, now his jersey number. John Wall has chosen to have a deuce on the back of his uniform next season, making us forget about all the other No. 2s who have ever worn a Bullets/Wizards jersey.
And all via Twitter. Look at John Wall leegggooo!!! He’s a Twitter news-making machine! He’s also interacting with fans by soliciting their opinion. Smooth marketing move.
John Wall’s Tweet is thy command (to Tweet back). So people did. And to get the immediate (at the time) pulse of yucks, comments and thoughts, let’s check some Tweets out.
First …..
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