National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas indefinitely without pay Wednesday, saying a gun incident in the Wizards’ locker room last month and Arenas’s behavior since had led him to conclude “that he is not currently fit to take the court in an NBA game.”
Stern’s action, announced in a scathing statement issued from his office in New York, cast into doubt the future career of one of Washington’s most colorful athletes who once delighted fans with his all-star play but has been seeking to regain his form this year after missing most of the past two seasons with a knee injury.
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