Gilbert Arenas Recalls A Heated Fight With Ex-Teammate Steve Blake And The Hilarious Way Blake Tried To Bury The Hatchet

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Can you imagine the nads it takes to mess with someone crazy enough to bring a handgun in the locker room on Christmas Eve, no less?

Steve Blake has proven time and time again that between the lines, he’s as loco as they come.

During a recent episode of his ‘No Chill Gil’ podcast, Gilbert Arenas recalled an altercation he and Blake got in when they were teammates on the Wizards in the early 2000s.

“During practice I elbowed Steve Blake and he swung at me,” Arenas said. “I was like ‘damn, wait hold on.’ Oh, really? Did [he] just throw a punch at me? Is that how we’re working here? We’re going through it, like wrestling on the floor. Practiced ended. He’s like ‘alright, man, y’all want to go to Legal Seafood?'”

“What are you talking to me like that for? Don’t be talking to me like that. He was like ‘let’s go to Legal Seafood, food on me; let’s go through these plays,'” Arenas said.

“No, it’s just off the court this is him. On the court, he’s a whole different person. Then, we go to Legal Food and talk about plays. We didn’t even talk about him throwing a punch at me and us fighting in the corner,” Arenas said.

“I didn’t understand. I had never seen it before. Usually, you try to hold a grudge. He just completely, it just completely didn’t register… I started watching him [after that]. As soon as he hit the lines, his whole demeanor changed.”

The fight occurred less than two years after Steve Blake took a swing at former Terps teammate John Gilchrist at a Maryland practice the season they won the national championship.

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And then in 2014, Blake proved he was full crazy by leveling Kenneth Faried and jawing at him on the ground.

Steve Blake: 6’3”, 175 pounds
Kenneth Faried: 6’8”, 220 pounds

Aaaaand then there was the ejection after confronting Jason Terry over a push. That Mamba Mentality.

Steve Blake was just let go from his assistant coaching post for the Phoenix Suns. Only a matter of time before the dude dips his toes in the MMA waters.