Crime in Sports - #72 - The Murdering, Gunslinging, Honor Student Gang Banger - The Unnecessaryness of Javaris Crittenton

Episode Date: June 13, 2017

This week, we navigate through a story of a promising, intelligent young man, who much preferred hanging out with gang members, and going to prison, than being a success. His carelessness, need for petty vengeance, and proclivity to pull loaded weapons on teammates, results in not only disappointment from everyone who ever encountered our subject, but also a twisted tale of robbery, and revenge, that ends with someone dead, in the street. And it couldn't be funnier!Blow all of your potential, join a gang, and shoot an innocent bystander with Javaris Crittenton!!Check us out, every Tuesday. We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie WhismanDonate at...patreon.com/crimeinsportsHelp support our show by supporting our sponsors...Go to ziprecruiter.com/crime to post your jobs to over 100 sites with one click!Get your first 3 meals FREE with FREE SHIPPING by going to blueapron.com/CRIMEContact us on...twitter.com/[e-mail]/Crimeinsportsinstagram.com/crimeinsports#crime #sports #murder #police #prison #jail #cops #true #truecrime #trial #drugs #champion #assault #heavyweight #violence #kill #death #investigation #espn #foxsports #bloody #killer #firstdegree #braindamage #domesticviolence #nba #basketball #nbafinals #lalakers #memphisgrizzlies #washingtonwizards #china #gang #crips #heroin #trafficking #driveby #manslaughter #atlanta  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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But he was like a movie character. Yeah, that's pretty ballsy. I like that movie. That's so amazing. He's like the type of guy that if you saw his character in a movie, you'd like it. Yeah. You'd be like, that's a cool fucking character. You'd root on that villain.

That's a cool dude, but then after a minute, you'd be like, wow. Until he says midget, then you're like, tone it down, sir. Yeah, but in a movie, you can brush aside, but in real life, you're like, oh, he's kind of a dick that affected real people. That's true. But he seemed like he'd be fun to hang out with anyway, but in real life, you're like, oh, he's kind of a dick that affected real people. That's true. But he seemed like he'd be fun to hang out with anyway, if he wasn't robbing you blind, that is, which is a distinct possibility with Mickey Dore. So you never actually know. He might be robbing you blind.

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But without further ado. Don't give him a dime. Don't give him any money. Don't go to that GoFundMe thing for their website. That's ridiculous. We have a completely different story tonight. Just absolutely night and day story, which is what we try to do here. I really do work hard

to try to do... I have a chart, basically. It's sports and crimes, and it's everything, too. It's black guys and white guys. I don't want to do five black guys in a row. I don't want to do too many women here. I'm trying to balance it all out, so it's like, oh, yeah, I haven't heard a football story in a while.

And then, oh, it's a murder. It's been a month since there was a murder. So we're trying to balance it out. There's some strategery involved. There's a lot of strategery. I'm like, somebody tweeted one time a picture of Charlie from Always Sunny in front of the wall with, like, pictures and strings to them and stuff. And he's looking, like, crazy. His hair's messed up. And, like, this is how I picture you doing shit.

Like, yes, that's me. That's exactly it. That's pretty much it. I have, like, an eight-foot whiteboard in my house now. Yeah, it's taken off. This is fucking ridiculous, guys, but thank you. It doesn't matter. Can't wait for tonight's episode on Javaris Crittenton. Javaris

Cortez Crittenton. Cortez. Cortez is his middle name. It's a good middle name. It's an excellent middle name. It's not a junior. Very strong. He's not a junior, luckily for all of us, but he exudes junior activities and junior attributes. All the behavior. All the behaviors of a junior, I will say.

Without that little tag on the end. Definitely. He's an NBA player, first of all, if you don't know who he is. And, man, is this a twisted-ass story. It's wild. Just watch a man spin out of control. Grace is such a nice trip to grace and then a hard fall. Like the rug ripped out.

Good. The ground falls out. It's like a cartoon character who's running off a mountain and then looks down and realizes, oh, shit, there's nothing beneath me. Pulls up the yike sign. And then falls. That's Javaris Crittenton. Great. He's born December 31st, 1987.

He's a New Year's baby. He's so young. So Great. He's born December 31st, 1987. He's a New Year's baby. He's so young. So young. He really is. Oh, my gosh. He's extremely young. Yeah. That's insane.

He's only 30 now. That's 30 years now. Today. Not even. He's 29 today. He's not even 30. Oh, you're right. Yeah.

Wow. That's crazy. He's so young. He's so young. He's raised in a shit neighborhood in Atlanta. He's from a dumpy area. Okay. But you wouldn't know it by his upbringing.

Everybody said he never seemed affected by his environment at all when it came to that stuff. He was very closely monitored by the women in his family. He was raised by four women. His mother, Sonia Dixon, gave birth to him when she was only in junior high school. What? That's what we're doing. 14 years old or 13 maybe? 13, yeah.

That's the we're doing. 14 years old or 13 maybe? 13, yeah. That's the type of deal. So, I mean, he has all the makings of this being a disaster from start to finish. And he made it to the pros. He was an NBA player. Yeah, which we see happening. But, I mean, this has all the makings of, you know, arrested all through his teen years. And, you know, we've covered a ton of stories like this where it's like, oh, my God. Punching doors when they're eight.

Yeah, they're punching doors. They're doing this. Or Alvin Robertson or these guys. Or he actually wasn't. It was Daryl Alum's problem from the beginning. Oh, these guys have problems from the very beginning. This is not one of them. Latchkey child hiding behind a toilet.

Yeah. Just so many terrible things as a child. We've had awful Tommy Morrison's mother's a prostitute. Three different people whose mothers are prostitutes. I mean, that's where we're dealing with sometimes with crime and sports, but not particularly here. Sonia Dixon, his mother, was raised by Sonia, his grandmother, Sonia's mother, her grandmother, so his great-grandmother, and an aunt. I guess they all lived in the house together. But I mean, great-grandma's like, I don't know, 37.

That's what I mean. Yeah, she's like 37. She hasn't even retired yet. even close bananas yeah the mother's 13 the daughter's probably 33 the mother's in her early great-grandmother's in her early 50s that's so crazy insane so these four young women we'll call them like all of them even the great-grandmother i never thought i'd call a great-grandmother this young lady here but this works works. Here we are. So he's raised by these four young ladies, all in the same house, and apparently they shielded him from a lot of the bad shit that went on outside the house and in the neighborhood.

And what town is this? Atlanta. This is Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta, Georgia, so big city. Hotlanta. Hotlanta. Big city, sticky, nasty. The weather is horrible down there.

It's the worst. I hate the south weather. I don't like humidity. And it's cold in the winter, too. Hey, great. The weather is horrible down there. It's the worst. I hate the south weather. I don't like humidity. And it's cold in the winter, too. Hey, great. Yeah, that's crazy. You can get a sunburn and die of heat exhaustion in the summer. The thing is, in the summer, it's extra hot now, and it's sticky, and it's really bad.

But you bear that, because in the winter, it gets cold. Right. You bear that, because in the winter, you're going to slide off the damn road. It's like, wow, thanks a lot. At least here, it's in Phoenix. It's 110 degrees all summer. We're suffering through that now. But then it gets cool and decent in the spring and summer.

And then you've got the 70s and 80s in the winter. Yeah. Not now. Right. So everybody said he's a nice kid. Everybody. Friends, his teachers, coaches when he gets into coaching, teammates all describe him as intelligent, thoughtful, generous, well-mannered.

Nice kid. You learn that from a 50, well-mannered, nice kid. You learn that from a 50-year-old great-grandmother. Yes, yes. You'd be a nice kid. Nice kid, they all say. Nice kid. Now, he's very hyper also. He's rambunctious.

He's just got a lot of energy. He's an 8-year-old that they're trying to keep in the house and off the streets. He's an 8-year-old with energy that 50-year-olds can't keep up with. No, he's going to be bouncing off the walls, especially if you don't just let him go run around, go outside and go out in the streets. They're protecting him, so he gets, you know, cabin fever, you know what I mean? So his mother, Sonia, is looking for a place

when he's about eight years old to take him. Like, what can I do? So she finds a program. She's told about a basketball program. It's at the Adamsville Recreational Center, which is a really kind of a... You almost said reparation. Reparation center.

Jesus. Which, well, maybe that's part of it. Maybe that's what it really is. That would be good. You get recreation and reparation. You go home very happy. That'd be nice, yeah. You go home extremely happy. You go home with money in your pocket, some land. And an exercise. And you could use a shower. You got a good sweat in. It's pretty good. So she takes him

there. It's right by their area. It's a good sweat in. It's pretty good. So she takes him there. It's right by their area. It's the Cleveland Avenue area. It's Southeast Atlanta is where he grows up on Cleveland Avenue, which is apparently, like I said, a terrible area. The recreation center is just about 10, 15 minute drive. So it's a quick thing. She can take him there.

And it's a good thing. There's a guy who ran this program named Tommy Slaughter. But we call him PJ. Everybody calls him PJ. What? I have no idea how PJ came from. named Tommy Slaughter. But we call him PJ. Everybody calls him PJ. What? I have no idea how PJ came from. And Tommy Slaughter, his name's Slaughter. That's terrifying.

That's a cool name. We call him Sergeant Slaughter, like the wrestler. Call him Slots. But they went with PJ. PJ. So maybe he doesn't want to be terrifying. That makes sense. He doesn't want to be terrifying because he's good with the kids.

He's a real energetic guy, a bunch of gold teeth, that sort of guy. He's like a guy the kids looked up to that still looked kind of hood. He wasn't a guy getting out like, I can't identify with this guy. He's in Dockers and that sort of thing. He still looked real hood, but he was like a responsible adult. But he could manage. I think there's something

great behind PJ, though, that has to be. Now, PJ's a good dude. No, I mean that name. Oh, there's got to be a great story. There's a great story behind that. Pussy jammer or something. Pussy jammer or something horrible. Yeah, yeah. It's something penis javelin.

Something really good, I think, is behind that. I'm a penis javelin. That's solid. That's something you'd be proud of. They call me penis javelin and be like, wow, really? But I can't say that in front of an eight-year-old, so I'm PJ. I'm PJ. You don't say anything.

Don't call me Tommy Slaughter, though, because I don't care now. So, yeah, he would pull up, and he's got an SUV, and he'd have his beats bumping out of the window. And the kids were like, hey, everybody's here. They all loved him. He would practice with the kids. He'd show them how to do things, fundamentals. He was big on fundamentals, big on defense, big on all that sort of thing. Everybody had to play what they called the PJ way,

which was good fundamental basketball. And he taught the kids how to do shit the right way. He didn't just give them a ball and say, go run around and knock into each other. He was like, move your feet better. Slow down. It's good. You sidestep.

You sidestep. Yeah. Put your hands up. Get tall. Get tall. Yeah, exactly. Get wide. Get tall.

Javaris, through all this, his basketball ability, people are starting to notice even at a young age. Really? Eight to ten, they're going, this kid can play, and he's getting tall, and this might not be too bad. So word gets to a guy named Wallace Prather Jr., who's known as the godfather of Atlanta hoops. That's a silver-haired, middle-aged white man. Oh, okay. He's not white, I don't think, but we'll call him. He's a junior, though. He's a junior. He's a junior silver-haired, middle-aged white man. Oh, okay. He's not white, I don't think, but we'll call him. He's a junior, though. He's a junior.

He's a junior silver-haired, middle-aged white man. That's what I mean. Both. He's both. He's trouble. That's trouble. They describe him as, quote, a quiet but stern man with sharp eyes and a graying goatee that saw the development of the entire area.

That sounds like a plantation owner. That's what that sounds like. He's quiet but stern. He's fair, but he's tough. Sounds like Black Colonel Sanders. Yeah, it's very strange. So that's the guy who finds him. This man streamlines.

What he does is he takes the best players, the players who get how to play right and who can play well and have skills, and he makes a team up of like an all-star team of the area. Because they had a few of these teams, and they'd even travel to other areas. They're like, you know, specialty. LeBron James was on one of these teams we'll talk about. They played against LeBron James. Yeah, actually, because this is the same. He played against LeBron?

He played against LeBron when they were both in high school in a big tournament game. So I have details of that. Basketball, bad news, Bears, but they're good. They're good, yeah. They're called the Atlanta Celtics. I don't know why you'd call them the Celtics, but whatever. I guess they were all different teams. What about the Junior Hawks?

The Junior Hawks would be better, yeah. This team ranges, players ranging from 9 to 18 years old on this team. So the 9-year-olds I don't think play much, but I think they're there to learn, and it's one of those things. You're going to be on this team. It's the pride of the local youth sports, whatever. Everybody is proud of this. These are the good kids. These are the kids that are going to make it. These are the pride of the local youth sports, whatever. Everybody is proud of this. These are the good kids. These are the kids that are going to make it. These

are the kids that are trying hard. They're showing prowess. They're showing prowess, absolutely. After Javaris is in eighth grade, so he's about 13 years old, junior, old silver junior here, Prather. Old enough to be a father at this point. Old enough to be a father, according to his mother. Definitely old enough to be a father. Old enough to be a father, according to his mother. Definitely old enough to be a father.

Asked him to join a traveling team. This is the Celtics traveling team. And he's asked to join this team officially, not just be like a practice guy after that. Now, on this team are Josh Smith, future NBA guy, and Dwight Howard. Wow. Also, he grows up with Dwight Howard very closely. Amazing. And right to the end, he's close in a weird way with his family. Not in a good way, but he's close with his family.

And we'll find out how because it's really funny. Foreshadowing. That's coming later, definitely. So they are going to the first game with the Celtics was a tournament in Houston against LeBron James' team. Wow. So it's pretty crazy. Yeah. And while all this is going on, P.J., old Tommy Slaughter,

has diagnosed with colon and rectal cancer. Oh, no. So he's very sick, and he's kind of withering away. We're going to lose P.J. before the end of this story. We're not. I promise you P.J. is not going to go away in the formative years here. It's okay. All right.

P.J. came to see this game, though, which was a big deal because he was sick, but it was that important to him. Yeah. That's the only reason I was even saying that. It was that important to him that he traveled to Houston, even though he was really sick because he really wanted to see these guys play. Late in the game, there's a whole story behind this.

Late in the game, they finally get to match up Javaris and LeBron James. Really? Okay, yeah. LeBron James switches defensively onto Javaris. So LeBron has switches defensively onto Javaris. So LeBron has just been dominating the whole game, obviously. You know, clearly.

Yeah, because that's what LeBron does. That's what LeBron does. He's the best player in the damn world. And if you saw any footage of him in high school, he pretty much looked exactly like he does now. Isn't that crazy? He's brick shithouse when he was 17 years old. He stopped growing at like 14, and he's just 6'7". He's huge.

A monster. It's crazy. Ripped muscles. I mean, against high school kids, that's ridiculous. No wonder they're called King James. Yeah. He's a monster. So they get, Javaris wants the ball because LeBron's guarding him.

He wants to show that he can match up against the guy that's on every, the best guy in the country. The one that everybody's already talking about. Definitely. So Javaris gets the ball. They make an isolation. Teammates clear out, let him have a chance at this. I guess he faked left and LeBron bit on the fake. So he came up and dribbled and went to the hoop. And LeBron, you Oh shit, the Jordan. Yeah, it was a big deal. People went nuts. The crowd went crazy because it was on LeBron.

So, you know, it was one of those environments where everyone was like, oh, people ran outside, came back, one of those shits. You know what I mean? They're like,

oh shit, God damn it. World star, they're screaming. People are going nuts. For people in Europe that don't get what James just said, he jumped up

and smacked the board, the backboard, at 14 years old. That's crazy. That's crazy. While the other kid who was hangingacked the board, the backboard, at 14 years old. That's crazy. That's crazy. While the other kid, who was hanging in the air, switched the ball to the other hand and switched around to the other side of the rim and put it in. Unbelievable. Two amazingly athletic feats going on in front of us here.

It's wild. LeBron was 17 at the time. He was 17 at this point. Oh, okay, yeah. So he could do this. He's about to be in the NBA in a year. Yeah, he was touted. Is that bananas? Everybody knew at this point what was going on. yeah. So he was, you know, he could do this. He's about to be in the NBA in a year. Yeah, this was, he was touted. Is that bananas?

I mean, everybody knew at this point what was going on. The pride of Cleveland. But people took notice of this. Yeah. People took, all of the high schools were like, oh, excuse me, because this is after eighth grade. So all the high schools were like, we'd like to have him because that's what they do in these competitive, you know, high school sports is they actually recruit kids to play

in high school sports. So he was set to enroll at a high school called Douglas High. Apparently a lot of his friends were going there. It was kind of a cool school to go to for basketball and for everything until he gets a call from Dwight Howard Sr. Dwight Howard's a junior, by the way. Is he really? If you ever think he's being a whiner or an asshole and you're like, that guy seems like

a douche, there it is. It's because he's a junior. It's a fucking junior. That's the problem. I had no idea. Well, now you know. All of his whining and complaining, that's where it comes douche. There it is. It's because he's a junior. It's a fucking junior. That's the problem right there. I had no idea. Well, now you know. All of his whining and complaining, that's where it comes from. It stems right from his junior.

He hides that junior deep, though. He doesn't say shit about it. Oh, he doesn't want to let you know. Now, Dwight Howard Sr. is the athletic director at the Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, which is a Christian school, but a big basketball powerhouse. And Dwight Howard is playing at that school at the time. Uh-huh. And he's a senior.

And so they're like, Dwight Howard Jr. Javaris is a point guard and Dwight Howard is a center. So he's thinking, I'd like you to come here, he tells him, and play with my son Dwight. We think you guys could win a national championship. And you should do this. So he comes and plays for them. And he's so conscientious at this point. There's a point when he's 14, Javaris, he invites PJ to come watch him play. But as he arrives, PJ, Javaris is dicking around with his friends and just being a, he calls it clowning around.

So he wrote him that he felt so bad, Javaris, for embarrassing himself in front of his mentor here. He wrote him a 13-page handwritten letter apologizing. Wow. He wrote him a 13-page handwritten letter apologizing. PJ said, quote, he told me he was sorry and he loves me and he promises to make me proud and that he'll never let me down again. In 13 pages of handwritten letter. It took 13 pages to get that statement out. Wild, right?

He should have been a writer. Yeah. But I mean, he cared. He sat down. He took the time. He wasn't just like, yeah, sorry, man. He took the time and was like, I'm embarrassed. That's true embarrassment.

You truly don't want that guy to think poorly of you, which is a good sign. And this guy's going to fuck up? That's what I mean. Okay, it gets worse. In high school here, he had a 3.5 grade point average, was really into science. They all recalled him as like a neat freak. He kept his clothes very neat. Everything was organized.

He's like, you would expect this guy's going to do big things. I mean, he's going to go play in the NBA. And then when he's done with that, he's going to have some big career in whatever he wants to do. He's going to be a very successful businessman. Everything's going to come out great. Right now, this is like a complete anti-abortion episode. Yeah.

Even if you're 13, it can work out well. Hang on to it. Hang out well. And we'll see how that message changes through the course of the show when it's not so clear. So good. But they did a good job, these women. They really did. Sonia Dixon, at this point, halfway through his school about, I think, sophomore year,

she moves the family out of that neighborhood to a gated townhouse in southwest Atlanta for a more stable environment. It's beautiful. They're all trying hard. That's feminism. That's so strong. Good shit. That's beautiful. And they all helped each other.

I'm proud of this. This Sonia Dixon, you can't be more proud of a person than this. She had this baby early, which sucks, but it happens. And she raised it right. And she tried her best. Gave everything she had. That's what I mean. Good job. We'll give you a round of applause

for Sonia Dixon. Good job, Sonia. You tried your best. And by everything she did, once he left her, he was fine. This didn't happen until later. He had a little bit of a problem adjusting it first to the Christian Academy. It's a Bible school, very strict dress code, very good curriculum demanding, and lots of Bible study, which he actually got into. Really? He found religion early? He found it early. Yeah, that's the problem.

And throughout, he gets weird with the religion, too. Yeah, there's a tweet later on where you're just like, really? Really? Really. I can't wait. Yeah, it's funny when we get into guys' tweets because we've talked about. They're always such. None of them make any goddamn sense.

Never, never. They're always like, what are you even thinking? What's the thought you're trying to convey to us? This guy does not talk much. The last few we've had have been full of in their own words. This one, I think I have one or two in their own words because all the other ones were like, I'm happy to be signed by the Lakers. I'm going to go play basketball. They were very simple. I'm going to go here and do that, and it's very nice, and I'm very happy to be on the team.

Nothing that's interesting. Mickey Dora was loquacious as fuck, though. That man never shut up. He's talking about Yates, for Christ's sake. It's insane. He was saying all sorts of shit. He's talking about Yates, for Christ's sake. It's insane.

So Geraldine Thompson, who's the headmistress of the school, said, quote, he had a few challenges initially because he had not been challenged at school the way we challenge students here. She said he was available for correction, though, when he ran afoul of the rules, which was not that often. She also said, quote, he was more interested in girls. Let's put it that way. But he was never given a detention or suspended or had no disciplinary problems whatsoever. He was just a teenager. Yeah. He found the Lord in pussy.

Yeah. Things go hand in hand. Sometimes you find the Lord in pussy. Yeah. Well, I think it's true. I think he was like, I'm really into God. Anything God's done, they should know about. Women he made, huh?

Those were pretty good. He made vaginas. These are amazing. Definitely. Thompson called him a leader, not a follower. Said that he would encourage younger students to be stronger academically and would try to help them and tutor them and shit like that. He's a leader.

He's a leader. Sometimes he got a little crazy on the court, they said. He had a lot of passion and anger on the court, which is normal and you want that out of people. They said, quote, but we had to straighten him up because he would get pulled off otherwise. We tried to teach our students not to go off kilter, so they're trying to teach him to control his rage and do all of that shit. He is the class president. Wow.

Class president. That's like leader as much as you can get at that age. High 1300s on his SATs. My God. Yeah, this is all a 3.5 GPA. They said if there's a Bible study, he had to memorize more and know more than anyone else to show his

biblical dominance. I don't know what that is. He's no Dex Tard. This is amazing. No, this guy is far from that. Yeah, they won two state championships in high school. One of them, the first one, was with Dwight Howard. Like I said, as a junior in high school on the court, on the floor, he averaged 28.4 points a game, 7.5 assists, 8.2 rebounds.

That's great. Yeah. High school games are like 41 to 38. So that's pretty goddamn impressive. Did he sign his letter of intent with like a quill and an ink bottle? I know, right? With a monocle on him. He took it off.

He's like, hold on a second. Wait a moment. Yeah, it's wild. He led Southwest Atlanta to the state eight finals, the whole deal. As a senior, he averaged 29 points, nine assists, and seven rebounds. Jesus, up to 40. He's gotten two-thirds of it. Yeah, on the way to winning another state champion.

He's a senior year. He's McDonald's All-American. All right. That's where they kind of just, that's basically going to be like, okay, what's the top half of the first round of the NBA draft going to look like next year? That's what that is. It's ridiculous. He's also named Mr. Georgia Basketball, which is a huge deal. Oh, by the way, he's also in the Future Business Leaders of America and the Senior Beta Club.

This kid. He's absolutely doing fantastic. Sonia, you are a a princess you've raised such a great kid yeah good job and it's all about to go wrong it's got to why the fuck else would we be covering him on june 17 2005 uh wallace prather jr who silver jr over here uh died of a heart attack stepping out of the shower which was he was 51 years old. That was a big deal to him. You know, that hurt him a lot. And he went out in a tournament right after he died and absolutely dominated this game.

Just absolutely. Just played it for him. It was an all-star game, and he just absolutely blew people out of the water. They said he was, like, playing like he was possessed. Yeah. They were like, he was 10 years older than everyone else, it looked like. Winning one for the giver. Yeah.

And he was, like, getting mad at people for not playing hard and things like in an all-star game they were like dude we're just playing he's like no you gotta play some defense bro they said he was diving for loose balls and like he was the all-star game yeah he was playing like this guy would have wanted him to play that's i mean he felt a desire to do that uh by the end of his senior year he's one of the top players in the country by far one of the top players in the country too he was the number one player in the state of uh the state of uh of georgia he was the number one rated point guard in the entire country and the number seven prospect in the entire country wow going into so i mean you can't number seven out of everybody out of everybody out of everybody everybody that touches a basketball and considers themselves playing seriously.

He's number seven out of all of it. That's crazy. Absolutely. And people loved him. They said, quote, he was the symbol for the original Atlanta area. He was the backbone and the entire city was behind him. So, like, people wanted him to go do well. He's the LeBron of Atlanta.

He's the LeBron of Atlanta. Yes. And it does not turn out quite that way. Also, in high school, he broke Dwight Howard's career scoring record there, Tim. Really? That's a big deal. Yeah, he's outscored a guy who was 6'11 and muscled up in high school. Right, that's what I was just about to say.

The center, who's just essentially dropping the ball in. Yeah, he's 6'5 playing point guard. Point guard. So he's distributing and still does that. Gorgeous. For college, he decides, not going to do the recruiting process. Not going to go to all these colleges. Not going to visit a whole bunch of shit. Have a bunch of people kiss my ass. Not going to do the recruiting process. Not going to go to all these colleges. Not going to visit a whole bunch of shit.

Have a bunch of people kiss my ass. Not going to do the whole thing. He said he never even thought of leaving Atlanta. He's going to Georgia Tech. Doesn't give a shit. Doesn't even look anywhere. He can go anywhere he wants. Who does he think he is? LeBron? Seriously. But he could go to Duke. He could go to, like, I

only say Duke because I hate Duke, but I say Duke because you need Duke but I say Duke because you need grades to get into Duke and the SAT scores you can't just be a good basketball player you have to be they're looking for Grant Hill they're not looking for you know uh Kenyon Martin yeah so this this is kind of that sort of thing and he's the type of guy they would look for exactly they're perfect class president and everything for Christ's sake he's doing politics in a town that created cigarettes yeah telling you so here he is anyway he's doing that uh in college he has a great right away right away in college he uh because he's only plays one year in college yeah it's they don't do you know

anymore we've done a lot of guys they do play three years they play four years in college none of this shit anymore no need by the by the 2000, we're doing one and done, and he's one of them. But in that year, he leads Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to the NCAA tournament and has a great time doing it, too. We'll talk about his stats a little in a second. We have a quote from a guy named Jared Jack, and he's going to come back later. Jared Jack

was the previous Georgia Tech point guard when Javaris was coming in. He said that Javaris, quote, always was a hardworking kid, really, really athletic, physically a lot bigger and stronger and faster than a lot of the high school kids he played against. That's what he says about him. And he says he's a good kid. And we have a great quote from him later, too. Damn right he's a good kid.

That's an understatement, sir. When were you a part of the business, future business leaders of America, you fucker? He's not in prison now, so we're going to give him the benefit of the doubt here for a minute. But back then, that's an understatement. But right now, I think he's doing all right for himself. I think he probably lives in a house, like a family maybe, something like that. In a house. In a house, that sort of thing.

At least he's in a house. Yeah, you know, he was a team leader, Crittenton, right away in his freshman year, which is odd. The coach, Paul Hewitt, urged him to take over a leadership role because he was playing really well in a bunch of games, and he let him play it in February of 2007. So he's like, why don't you try to step it up a little bit? On February 13th, he scores 29 points, which is a career high for him in college, which is huge against Florida State. He leads them to a 20-12 record.

They go to the NCAA tournament. Not too bad. Leads them to a 20-12 record. They go to the NCAA tournament. Not too bad. Over his last 11 games that season, he averaged 16.9 games and 6.2 assists. That's great. Which is great.

Whole season, he averages 14.4 points and 5.8 assists. He's a point guard. 3.7 rebounds. Terrific. Damn fine. Absolutely. He's 6'5", strong, fast, good point guard. Pro scouts are looking at him.

Sure. You know what I mean? How'd they do in the tournament? They got knocked out, I think, second round. Okay. Yeah, I mean, that's fine. That's fine. That happens.

It happens, too. They were only 20-12, so the team wasn't that stacked. You don't expect him to win. No, he was a freshman. He's not going to carry them anywhere. He passed the first round. That's pretty impressive. That is impressive. But he is up for the draft, and people want him, and he's a commodity.

Sure. So he's a loyal guy, though. You know who he hires as his agent? Not P.J. I'm not going to think P.. You know who he hires as his agent? Not PJ. I'm not going to think PJ. No, he hires... Did he hire Sonya? He hires Wallace Prather Jr.'s son, Wallace Prather III.

Oh. He's got a third mixed up in his silver-haired middle-aged whiteness here, which is scary. But it's a nice thing. He's loyal, so he doesn't want to go outside of his, you know, whatever circle. That's good. He's not getting his head snowed by some fancy agent somewhere, telling him to leave everything behind, his family and the people who brought him up. Right. That's nice.

And he's not taking a bunch of like jerk off gang members he hung out with. Thank God. These are like nice people. Yeah. He has no posse. So he has a cousin named Scooter. That's who he hangs out with. That's a.

Scooter goes everywhere with him. That's as soft as it gets. Scooter goes everywhere with him. It's sweet. They do not do sweet things together later, but Scooter is his buddy. Scooter is my mother-in-law's dog's name. Really? That's so sweet.

Wow. And he's a cute little white dog. You're going to think so much differently about him later on. You're going to be like, is that a blood stain on your fur there? Is he going to shank me? Is he going to shank me? So June 28, 2007, at the Wamuu Theater, which is the Madison Square Garden. Washington Mutual.

Yeah. And New York City, of course, was the NBA draft. This is the draft, too, changes. We've talked about guys who've been drafted in like 1979. It was like in a smoky room with a bunch of people, you know, just writing shit down. Like it's just changing pieces of paper. I drafted this guy. You drafted that guy.

It's like a fantasy draft. Yeah, that's kind of what it was before. Now it's on television in 115 countries. Is it really? Yeah, the draft was on 115 countries. The world likes the NBA. The NBA is a popular world game. They love it in Asia.

So much Philippines made their own. But there's basketball leagues all through everywhere. Europe, the Mediterranean, South America. They're everywhere. There's no other sport I can think of that has that many leagues everywhere. Apart from soccer. I don't even think soccer has that much. They don't have that many leagues? I mean, they have leagues, but I don't think

they're as into soccer in China as they are as basketball. And even in Italy, they're really into basketball. Not as much as soccer down there, but they're really fucking into it. It's wild. So much so that I feel like it's been that way now since like 92. Like since the Dream Team.

It's been around then. I bet that started it though. That didn't hurt at all. No. It's really been since. Does that put it on a world stage? Yeah, it did. And now the internet really blew it up more to where guys can watch.

Those damn And One videos. And the And One videos. We've talked about these damn And One videos. That'll make you want to do it. Yeah. So Javaris is hoping he goes number 11 because that's where the Hawks pick. He wants to stay so bad. He wants

to be the Atlanta guy and they're in need of a point guard. They're looking for a point guard. In 2005? In the 2007 draft. They're looking for a point guard. They want another Mookie Blaylock. He really wants to go. He's like, this is perfect. 11th pick comes. They're's like, this is perfect.

11th pick comes. They're all like, it's going to happen. And they select A.C. Law from Texas A&M. Ouch. So that does not happen. I don't know. I don't even think he plays in there anymore. No, he doesn't.

This was the draft. Greg Oden went number one. Okay. Just a tragic center with awful knees who never got to play because he was so injured. Where did he go to? Portland? He went to Portland originally and then kicked around and never played. So sad. So sad.

Kevin Durant's the number two pick who's playing in the finals currently. He's about to win himself a championship. He's about to get himself a ring. Sweeping him over on. Al Horford, number three. He's great, too. Yeah, a lot of guys. Brandon Wright.

Joaquin Noah's in that draft. Number 16, you could have had Nick Young. Oh. Who cares? I don't want him at all. Could have had Nick Young. Oh. Who cares? I don't want him at all. Could have had him. But finally, at number 19, the Los Angeles Lakers select Javaris Crittenton.

That's so great. That is great. And if you look after it, too, there really wasn't much more they could have done. I'm looking down the list of Tiago splitters in that draft. I mean, it's not a real deep draft at all. It really isn't. All the way down to the last guy in the draft. I mean, it's not a real deep draft at all. It really isn't. All the way down to the last guy in the draft. Number 59 pick overall, second to last in the second round. His name is DJ Strawberry.

No idea who that is. I don't either, but I really want to see a guy named DJ Strawberry play in the league. He's actually now, he's probably using his real name as a nightclub DJ somewhere. Probably, yeah. That's a pretty real name as a nightclub DJ somewhere. Probably, yeah. That's a pretty solid name. You don't even have to change anything.

He was picked by the Suns, too. Maybe he's related to Daryl. He just didn't want to go with Daryl. Fingers crossed that he fucks up. Oh, man. Fuck up, man. Maybe it's Daryl Jr. Maybe that's what DJ stands for.

That would be amazing. That would be awesome. That's the best way to name him Daryl Jr., too. Right in the first and middle name. I'm telling you, man. So there's an Atlanta Celtics coach there, Horace Naismith, said there was so much joy around that. Everybody expected Josh and Dwight to be pros. Javaris, they knew he was good.

But when he got there and got to that point, it was like, wow, this is really happening for this kid. So they're all, like, just happy for him. His mom's got to be over the moon. Can you imagine? I can't imagine. There's no way I can fathom being 14 and having a baby. In the eighth grade. And being so sad.

Yeah. That you've got this. What are you going to do? You've ruined your life. I've destroyed my life. I'm completely fucked. Now what happens? And now she's sitting on draft day in a beautiful place, sipping unbelievable champagne.

And her boy's going to play for the buses in one of the biggest markets in the world. He went to be interviewed. He had a nice new suit on. Of course. He had his high school sweetheart with him named Mia, who sticks around for a while and goes through some shit with him. They sign him finally.

It's a two-year contract that guarantees him $2 million. Guarantees. Guarantees. Future businessman of America is going to make that money stretch. It's a $2.5 million contract totally, $2 million of it's guaranteed, and they have options for third and fourth years and all that good stuff that you sign with a team. That's what they do.

Now, he's welcomed to L.A. They have a big party for him. Big-ass party in a nightclub in Hollywood, this big fancy thing, and he's, you know, it's just an indoctrination. And he's like, wow, this is great. I guess these people like me. And at this point, too, he's known for dressing very kind of smart, conservative. He answers yes or no, sir, to people.

He met Jack Nicholson that night. You know he did. You know he did. Because this was the big Laker public. Here's our new guy. Let's all come and meet him. And he's 20 years old. He's just some kid.

He's 20 years old. He's going some kid. He's 20 years old. He's going to learn from Kobe and know how to do everything amazingly. Absolutely. So he starts going out a little bit at night and hanging out. Nothing bad at first. He's just hanging out a little bit with the guys and he'll come home and doesn't do anything crazy at first. But there's one particular night, Mia talks about this, where he was walking to his car. Apparently he's very cheap.

Frugal comes up many times when I'm researching this story. Is he frugal or is he cheap? Because there's a different story. Both. You know what I mean? He's frugal and cheap. Cheap people, frugal people will go out and they get a Groupon. Well, it's weird.

You know what I mean? We'll talk about him later on. He'll have $55,000 worth of jewelry on, but yet as we'll talk about here, he will never pay for valets because he's like, I could park my own car. That's cheap. So he will not pay for valets, but he'll wear $55,000 worth of jewelry. That's cheap. It's an odd, weird level of cheapness. It's very strange. Frugal people get a

Groupon and go to dinner, and then they tip well. That's fine. Cheap people go out to dinner, and they look at the menu, and then they just don't tip. That's what cheap people do. That's what he does. So he's... The wait is over. So far, you're not losing. The only thing you're losing is my patience. Quickly, I see that.

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Follow Business Wars wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad-free on the Amazon Music or Wondery app. And now back to the show. He's going, never paid for valet, which $5 could have avoided this whole situation, but he didn't want to pay it because he's fucking cheap. So he would, he said, unless they had to valet, he wouldn't do it. So two men approach him and snatch the chain off his neck at gunpoint. They rob him at gunpoint.

And then they just walk back into some alleys off of Hollywood Boulevard. They just head into the alleys and he's just standing there like, oh shit, what do I do here? Not follow him. Not follow him. That's what he did. He just stood there, got in his car and left. By the way, if you go to LA and you're on Hollywood Boulevard, don't expect it to be glitz and glamour because that place is disgusting. It's horrible.

It's vile. Crawling with wannabe comedians and fucking prostitutes. I don't know which is worse. And that weird trickle that goes down the gutter when it's sunny out, that's just tears of people that their dreams are ruined. That's like how you get olive oil, I feel like, if you had to smash an olive until one drop of oil comes out, that sort of thing. That would be like that. If you smash a six-month comedian that moved there, that's what would come out. Just a trickle into the gutter.

Just a trickle of tear. Yeah, that's his soul leaking out. That's what it is. So all that shit trickling down the gutter, that's just souls. That's like actor souls, comic souls, writer souls. That's disgusting. Yeah. Prostitutes whose souls are old from a long time ago. That's just souls. That's like actor soul, comic souls, writer souls. LA's disgusting. Yeah. Prostitutes whose souls are old from a long time ago.

They're all gone. Just expect to be robbed if you're on Hollywood Boulevard. Yeah, it'll happen. That's happening. Eventually, yeah. So he decided to not go out much anymore. He stopped. This kind of shook him up a little bit. He didn't really go out anymore. Started just trying to get into basketball. Just trying to be a good basketball player,

concentrate on his skills, come home at night, not fuck around. He doesn't get much playing time in the beginning, though, with the Lakers. He's a rookie. And also, too— And they've got Kobe and Fox. Well, the problem is they're not going to play him at point guard. They want to play him at shooting guard. And that's a problem.

That's Kobe's position. That's where he's at. He would get frustrated. Like at practice, he would want to play against Kobe so he could show that he can play against Kobe so they'll let him play. But like PJ had a quote where he's like, you know, Kobe was at this point, Kobe's the best player in the world.

Kobe's the best player in the world. You just know your role. He wants to play, but he still thinks he should get playing time even though it's like, sorry, but you have that guy in front of you. It's like if you were a shortstop coming up for the Yankees for 20 years. You're not playing. You're not fucking playing. Either move to third and then that didn't work anymore. Find another

position or just go somewhere else. Or just sit on the bench and enjoy the rings. That's the thing. But he wanted to play. He wanted to show he was good. Here's the other thing. As like a strategic mind, why don't you just like whenever Kobe wants a rest, and you're going to go out a breast, a rest.

Whenever he wants a breast, send him to Colorado and he'll attack a woman. Nice job. But whenever he wants a rest, why don't you just go out there and be another person that's as good as Kobe and have two fucking Kobes on the court? That'd be great. They just didn't give him any meaningful minutes. I'm sure. You mean, it's not even like...

You're going to get four minutes a night. Do it. Make the best of it. That's what he played for. He plays for the Lakers. He plays in 22 games, averages 3.3 points a game. Yeah. One rebound,.8 assists in 7.8 minutes per game.

Of course. And like I said, moved him to shoot. Plus, he's in a new position now. He's never played shooting guard before. I mean, he shot like crazy in college and high school. He scored a lot, but he's not a shooting guard. Who's Derek Fisher? That's the guy.

Yeah, Derek Fisher was there. That's who it is. He just rolled his card, by the way, and got a DUI. Hey, look at him. Good job. Keep it up, buddy. You'll make the list. You're on track, sir.

You're on track. Good job. Grace was a long time ago for him, so it's fine. Now, New Year's Eve 2007, his birthday. It's his birthday, man. It's his 20th birthday. It's a big deal. 20th birthday.

He's a Laker for the last few months. Not old enough to drink, though. Not even old enough to drink, but he goes out. He's settling in in L.A. He's starting to get used to it. Kwame Brown is also from Atlanta, and Kwame Brown was on the team. It was a huge draft bust. And Kwame Brown moved in right across the street from him,

and they basically tried to pretend like it was Atlanta between the two of them. They would be like, hey, we get the food we like. They tried to make a little haven of Atlanta for them. Sit across the street from each other and holler back and forth. Yeah, that sort of thing. Like, hey, they felt at home around each other. So they're settling in. Everything's looking good.

Javaris, for his 20th birthday on New Year's Eve, they went out to a nearby bowling alley, Javaris and Mia. He didn't even go out with the guys. You know, after midnight, he kind of was sitting around and he was feeling good about himself. Mia said, quote, it was beautiful. He was happy and things were beginning to work out. Yeah. This, my friends, is Grace. Grace.

That was so fast. Grace, we're here. Hilar here hilarious we are at grace right now that can't be any better on his birthday i mean and mia says it was beautiful success comes from tough upbringing doesn't matter makes the most of it tough tough tough the worst makes the most of it from the least advantaged possible position makes the most of it from the least advantaged possible position, makes the most of it, comes up 3.5 grade point average, class president, leaders of the future business people of America. Unbelievable. The goddamn Lakers draft him. He's starting to get comfortable as a Laker.

He's doing well. He met Jack Nicholson. He meets Jack Nicholson. I mean, somebody robs him, but that's all right. I'm sure he told his teammates, they're like, yeah, that shit happens. Yeah, you got to be careful. Watch your shit. Watch your shit.

Yeah, that's why we all carry guns. Athletes carry guns because they have $75,000 necklaces on. When you carry around something that's half a house around your neck, you can expect that someone can just take that and then have half a house in their hand. They might want to do that if they're not good people.

So he's happy. He's looking forward to the future in LA. And on February 1st, 2008, he is traded by the Lakers. Traded. With his buddy, Kwame Brown. Oh, that's nice. Mark Gasol, who's still around. Yeah.

Aaron McKee. By the way, that's got to be the ugliest family on earth. Yeah, and the Gasols are goblins, those people. Monsters. They're ghouls. And Mark's the handsome one, and he still looks like shit. They look like Easter Island statues, those fucking guys. They're hideous.

The heads, too. Like, how much ugly can you cram onto that head? It's so big. It's quite the palette of ugly. There's a lot of palette for ugly, I'll say that, because it's very— It's so big. It's so big, and so much room for ugly i'll say that because it's very so big so big and so much room for ugly like powell's head is like it's like almost tried to like somebody tried to shrink it yeah yeah they're like it's too much ugly just too much man push it down shit it won't go just keep going stop

really jump up and down put some cleats on give that a shot throw your elbow into it come on man so this is funny who he's traded for. It's Javaris, Kwame Brown, Marc Gasol, Aaron McKee, and a first-round draft pick in 2008, which was later Dante Green. This is for a—and a 2010 draft pick. Anyway, they trade him to the Grizzlies. They trade all this shit to the Grizzlies for Pau Gasol. The other ugly side of a bitch. Yes, they did it for that. And a 2010 second

round draft pick, which is basically a pack of gum that's been left in the car for the last six months. Nobody, it doesn't matter, second round draft pick. As much as it would be depressing to be the handsome guy of those two, then you're traded with a ton of other

garbage for just his ugliness. For just him. Me and three other guys and a couple of draft two. Like, then you're traded with a ton of other garbage. For just him. For just his ugliness. For just him. Me and three other guys and a couple of draft picks are as good as my brother. Thanks, Dick. Thanks a lot, asshole. So, Javaris was just taken aback by this whole thing. Totally surprised, completely shocked,

had no idea this was coming, just didn't understand it. But he did it in good spirits. He packed up his belongings he had to right away he had to go pack his shit up and get on a plane to memphis because when they trade you like that you got a plane now tomorrow yeah in memphis you got a game tomorrow let's go there's no time to like okay let me call the movers let me sit down and figure out what we're doing figure that out get the fuck out of here here's your plane ticket shit i gotta go and we'll figure it out he gives me a he hands Bible. Really? When he leaves with a handwritten note that says, quote, you can't make any plans.

Only God can. Oh, Jesus. So he's getting a little religious. But I mean, still that's a positive, though. He's trying to tell her, like, let's not freak out about this. He goes to Memphis in 2007, 2008 for that season. Plays in 28 games there. 18.1 minutes per game.

So that's three times the minutes almost. That's good. 7.4 points games there. 18.1 minutes per game, so that's three times the minutes. Almost. That's good. 7.4 points a game. 3.2 rebounds. 1.2 assists. Not bad. And he's close to home. He's close to home. Yeah. You can go down there. He should be thrilled about this. It's not terrible for him. He makes also, too, this will soften the blow

a bit. For his rookie year of playing with the Lakers in Memphis, he made $1,285,200. You bet. So, hey, that'll – And also, too – I'll play in fucking Bangladesh for that kind of money right now. Here's the thing, too, though. In L.A., that money doesn't go near as far as it does in Memphis, Tennessee.

Yeah, as in Memphis. Holy shit. That's a completely different deal, man. You can buy so much in Memphis with that. He just upped his salary by a third by getting to Memphis. Honestly, between the cost of living and taxes and everything else, who the fuck wants to live in Memphis? No offense, Memphis, but I've been there. It's fucking dumpy.

It's a great place to visit and eat food and shit, but if you want to live there, you're fucking high. It's cool and historic. That's terrific and all, but not living in that place. Your weather still sucks. Your weather sucks. It's dangerous as fuck. It's a dump. Fix your shit.

Yeah. Fix it. That pyramid isn't going to- Memphis 3? Come on now. That pyramid- That was in Arkansas, but that pyramid isn't going to draw us. Well, that's just on fuck. It's a dump. Fix your shit. Yeah. Fix it. That pyramid isn't going to- You heard of the West Memphis Three? Come on now. That pyramid- Well, that was in Arkansas, but that pyramid isn't going to draw us. Well, that's just on the other side of the border.

Yeah, that pyramid isn't going to draw it in. I'll just say that. It's not enough. Sorry, guys. You drive by and you're like, hey, there's a pyramid in Memphis. You know where else they have one? Vegas. A lot better than Memphis.

They do. They do have one there. And also Egypt, which is also similar to Memphis, we'll say. Yeah, similar climate. Equal. I think it's equal in danger, Memphis, we'll say. Yeah, similar climate. Equal. I think it's equal in danger, too, at this point. Telling you. Oh, Jesus.

So after summer 2008, Javaris finishes his rookie season in Memphis. He returns to L.A. He goes for a few weeks to work out and to see Mia because Mia's got – he signed a lease. So Mia's in the apartment back there like, oh, I hope he's doing well in Memphis. Like it's ridiculous. So he goes out one night at a club and he's introduced – there's a bunch of Atlanta people there. And so he's introduced through a guy he knows from Atlanta that's in this little circle to an Atlanta-based rapper. Uh-oh.

Whose mother was from L.A. and he had just come out to L.A. to be a rapper. Yeah. His name was Dalla. Okay. D-O-L-L-A. Yeah, of course come out to L.A. to be a rapper. Yeah. His name was Dalla. Okay. D-O-L-L-A. Yeah, of course it is. I don't know who Dalla is. I'm not familiar.

You'll find out why you've never heard of him in a second. Dalla was his, he was known as a very, people liked him a lot. He was a real personality. Because he's got dollars. He got dollars. He was a real personality and he had Mansfield tattooed on his index finger and on his middle finger. He had done modeling work with Sean John. Really?

Yeah, and he was in a single with T-Pain that was in the top 100, too. So he had a little beginnings of a career going on, but he's also a gang member, this guy. Mansfield is Mansfield Crips, and this is a gang over here. It's a weird gang, too, because they're like a middle-class gang. Like a comedian, I can't remember who it was. It's some comic I never heard of. But he said that he grew up in this area and said that the best way to describe them

is they're gangsters with two parents. Which is a great way to describe it. They're like middle-class kids who still are like hardcore gang gang. It's just the weirdest shit ever. Like that guy, Papa Doc in 8 Mile that Eminem roasts. He's got two weirdest shit ever. Like that guy, Papa Doc in 8 Mile that Eminem roasts and he's just like, he's got two parents, people. The guy that lives at home, his name is Clarence. This isn't a gangster.

Exactly. That's kind of what it is here. But these guys, anyway, so Javaris is hanging out with these guys. He's not a big drinker. He doesn't go out a lot either after the robbery incident. He doesn't go out a lot. He really doesn't drink a lot. But he likes Dala and he likes to hang out with all these.

He's not old enough to drink. No, that's the thing. He likes to hang out with all these kind of Atlanta, kind of an Atlanta circle in LA. There's another guy named Kay Swiss whose brother lives in Atlanta and who he knows and he becomes very good friends with. Another guy named Asfa Abebe. Asfa Abebe is the guy's name. Oh, my God. Another guy there who we'll talk to a little later. Hearing you pronounce gangster rapper names is now my personal favorite thing.

No, that's not our – That's his real name? That's not a rap name. His name is – this is his name. His name is Asfa Abibi. That's his name. Okay. Yeah.

That's his – no, it's not a rapper name. I don't believe this at all. That's his real – what he was – That's his given name? That's what it says. Him and K-Swiss. Well, K-Swiss, that is not his name. No, that guy his... No, it's not a rapper name. I don't believe this at all. That's his real... That's his given name? That's what it says. Him and K-Swiss. Well, K-Swiss, that is not his name. No, that guy's so clever, he looked at his goddamn shoes for a nickname.

And as for a BB, though, that is his name as a prisoner in a prison labor. Okay. So that's definitely his name. That's definitely his name. As far as the state of Georgia is concerned, that's his fucking name. So that, yeah. K-Swiss. Was it a first name or a last name at a-s-f-a-w is his first name his last name is a-b-e-b-e okay a bb all right a baby as far a baby i feel like i feel like a nurse came out of the room when the mom gave birth and she was like, where's my baby?

And she's like, where's her kid? I feel like it's probably some sort of- I don't know. She asked for a baby. Yeah, she asked. I feel like it's probably like a traditional, maybe an African name or something like that. Traditional, a family, whatever, something of that nature. I feel like it's definitely not a rap name, though.

All these kids- It's how the people in the South talk. She asked for a baby. Yeah, she asked for a baby. You going to give it to her? You going to give her the baby? Holy fuck. A baby?

She got a baby in there. So, you know, that's a tough one. That's horrible. Yeah, it's bad. We tried to cram a square peg in a round hole on that one, and we do our best. Yeah, that's what you get. So these guys hanging out, we're all early 20s guys. None of them are real bad, bad kids or anything like that, bad, bad guys.

But they're turning into jerk-offs, and there's a couple of gangsters in the mix, and they're starting to rub off on them basically. We have a quote from a Mansfield Crip member named T-Loke. T-Loke is over here. It's so bad. That's a change name because he gave an interview, so that's his like that's his alias gangster name. That's his alias of an alias. He gave T-Loke. Don't know why.

I don't know if he chose that or the reporter. It's so it's so depressing, though, like that. That's that's the state of rap, though, is look at the names. It's so depressing. This guy's just a gang member. He's just a gangster. He goes by T-Loke. He's not a rapper.

He's just a gang member. He said, quote, Javaris saw the glamour. The way we move, people are attracted to that. That's the powerful part. We got a lot of people associated with us, and they got a lot of genuine love for us, and not on some bully gangster shit. Legitimate, like a family. Okay.

Apparently, Javaris was drawn. Let me see if I can translate. Javaris was drawn to the family aspect of our close-knit group of friends. That's what it is. I believe that's what he was trying to say. That's some bully gangsta shit. Otherwise known as some bully gangsta shit. Either way, however you want to say that.

I don't know. We have a lot of 50-year-old ladies that listen, so I might have to translate for them. A little bit, yeah. So 2008, 2009 season, he with memphis for that season he only plays in seven games with memphis that year 6.3 minutes a game so that's even worse 2.7 points a game 0.9 rebounds 0.7 assists doesn't matter he's not playing he's not earning a million dollars a year right there that's that's that's not a million dollars a year money they're not using him so what they do is on december 10th 2008 he's traded again oh no that's twice in a year he's been traded now this is depressing just is shaking him up it's a three-team deal which is crazy he's

traded by the grizzlies to the wizards um it's a mess here there's all sorts of shit i don't it's all draft picks basically it's all draft picks and him and him and Antonio Daniels. And it's the Hornets, Wizards, and Grizzlies all kind of make a shit draft pick soup, and they mix it up, and they each take a ladleful is basically what it is. And Javaris gets poured into the Wizards bowl. That's what he's doing. So he's on the Washington Wizards. And they were so bad then. They were bad, but one good thing is he gets to play.

That's a shit team. They need bodies. They they were so bad then. They were bad. But one good thing is he gets to play. Yeah. That's a shit team. So they need just – They need bodies. They need bodies and young bodies they want too. So they're like, let's get him on there, see what he's got. So in 2008, 2009 with Washington, he plays in 56 games. That's great. That's better 20.2 minutes a game.

You're a bench guy, but you're a 6th, 7th man. You're playing over half the season and over half the minutes in each game. He's doing fine. 5.3 points a game, 2.9 rebounds, 2.6 assists. So he's filling out the sheet a little bit, could do a little more with the points. But I don't think that's his role when he goes in there. I think it's just control the ball, that sort of thing. He does also soften the blow again here.

He makes $1,381,560 that year. That'll do it. That will make you a little like, oh, all right. Excitable to play? Amenable. Well, at least call it amenable. If we made a million dollars a year to do this? Yes.

Oh, I'd lose my shit. So that's going well. On May 18th, 2009, we find out why you've never heard of Dalla, because Dalla, who was completely unarmed, was shot in the back and shoulder in broad daylight in the Beverly Center parking lot by a man he'd had a scuffle with a few days earlier in Atlanta. And this was in California. He got shot by a guy. A guy followed him to fucking L.A. to kill him. He chased him.

Over a scuffle. 1,400 miles to get him down. And he was found not guilty by self-defense, even though Dalla was shot twice in the back. Twice in the back. Wow. And had no gun. Was not armed. Unarmed, walking away.

That's some L.A. shit there. That's amazing. Okay, that's a good lawyer right there. Let me tell you something. That is a silver-haired, middle-aged white man right there that got him off. Holy fuck. Goddamn. Shot in the back.

He shot an unarmed man in the back. A police officer fries for that. Yeah, I really, really badly want to find out this lawyer's name that figured this out, just in case there's ever some shit. I'm going to want to talk to this guy. Just to know. Wow. I mean, that's worse than OJ. I mean, this guy, you know he did it.

There wasn't even a question. He did it. They're just, self-defense. I know he had no gun and he was walking away, but he thought some nasty shit. He thought he was coming back. Wow. So Washington uh the 2009 2010 season october 2009 he injures his foot that's the very beginning of the season's october

so he doesn't play yeah in 2009 2010 at all because he's got an injured foot yeah so he's waiting to heal um on december 10 2009 this is when shit starts to really unravel here from now on it is fast and furious fuckery it's just nudnickery from the mountaintops from now on we've hit grace and we are like it's the christmas vacation analogy we're on a greased up toboggan just sailing down the mountain with a flame trail behind us we're going so fast on december 10 2009 wallace prather the third yes his agent that uh you know he signed that was his his mentor's son resigns as javaris's representative uh crittenden same day filed termination papers for him so they apparently got in a fight about some shit yeah you

can't quit you're fired you can't quit yeah you can't fire You can't quit. Yeah. Oh, you can't fire me. I quit. It's that thing. So Prather would not comment on anything about it, and neither would Javaris. And so, I mean, you had to know it wasn't going to work out. He's a junior and a silver-haired middle-aged white man. A junior's junior. This is a third. Yeah. This is a junior's junior right here, I'm telling you. The weird thing about this, too, is, first of all, this Prather, you know, he's the son

of his father who brought him up. He's been close to Crittenden since he was 10. So he's known this guy since he was 10 and his mom was 24 yeah and his mom was 24 you're not lying that's hilarious and maybe 23 we're not sure here depending on the birth date yeah and it was a contract year this is a contract year this contract's up so an agent that's where they make their money is on contract years they sit around contract year and he's willing to bounce. Well, that's what I mean. What the fuck is going on?

How messed up is he? What kind of fight could they get in to be like, I've dealt with this guy? Because, I mean, they sit around for three years in between contracts dealing with these guys' bullshit. They deal with their bullshit. They hire them lawyers. They get them out of DUIs. They do all this horse shit. And then he quits when it's time to make the money.

So that's a problem. Now, there's been people who have spoken with Prather and with Crittenden. There's been conflicting stories. One, they said that an agent was trying to steal Crittenden from him, and they were pissed off. Another one, there was some kind of argument over Crittenden's medical care with the foot, and the agent wanted him to do something, and he wanted to do something else. and the agent wanted him to do something and he wanted to do something else. Basically, they said Prather, many people said that Prather was starting to grow concerned over Crittenton's behavior and demeanor.

He thought it was becoming a little odd and not normal for him. Javaris signs the new silver-haired middle-aged white man, a guy named Mark Bartelstein, a Chicago-based agent who sounds very silver-haired middle-aged and a great agent. Yeah, I want Mark Bartelstein. who sounds like a very silver-haired middle-aged and a great agent. Yeah, I want Mark Bartlstein. Now, December 19, 2009, the Washington Wizards, he's on the team. He's injured, not playing, but he's on the team.

They are in Phoenix that night. They lose 121 to 95. That's shit-hammered, man. That is pounded. It's the last day of a road trip, too. They're flying back the next day. So those last days of a road trip, their teams are dog shit. I mean, they always say betting-wise, like the lines are all fucked up if it's the last day of a road trip. Because it's like, I thought they would have lost by two, but it's the last day of a road trip, so let's up it to 12.

It's one of those. It's not great. Team is tense after getting their asses kicked like that. That's a good ass kick in there. It's a beating. Yeah, so they're tense. Nash went off. Yeah, it had to be Steve Nash back then. So on the flight home, players are playing cards, and Karan Butler kicking there. It's a beating. Yeah, so they're tense. Nash went off. Yeah, that had to be Steve Nash back then.

So on the flight home, players are playing cards, and Caron Butler is there. We're going to get a lot of this from Caron Butler, because he wrote a book that talks a lot about this shit. Really? Very detailed here. Caron Butler recalls that Arenas Gilbert, or Gilbert Arenas. Gilbert Arenas, that guy's a straight gangster there. He's not at all. When we get into the story, he's not straight. He's straight gangster there. He's not. No? When we get into the story,

he's not straight. He carries a gun everywhere. We'll talk more about this. And pulls it on people in fucking locker rooms. We'll talk about this. I can't wait to get this story straight.

This is that incident. Oh, really? This is that incident. We got all the full details here about this, which I've always wondered about this, too. It was one of those incidents.

But Gilbert Arenas was a great player back then. There was a time when Gilbert Arenas was one of the best scorers in the league. He was a monster. He was the star of this team. It was one of those instances. Gilbert Arenas was a great player back then. There was a time when Gilbert Arenas was one of the best scorers in the league. He was a monster. He was the star of this team. He had a $110 million contract. He was the star of the team. So much money.

Gilbert Arenas and his teammate here, Crittenden, they're sitting there. A few other guys too. They're playing cards. Gilbert Arenas is personality-wise, he's a very large personality. He dominates the room type of thing. He's a star.

Yeah, and Javaris didn't really like that. Javaris is one of these guys that I feel like if somebody thought they were hot shit, he's like, I'm just as good as you. Like that sort of thing. So he didn't care for whatever reason. Maybe it was his upbringing. And up in those leagues, you don't be a hot dog and you don't act like this. I don't know. You don't be a tube steak. You know where you came from.

You don't be a tube steak. You don't act like this. I don't know. You don't be a tube steak. Know where you came from. You don't be a tube steak. You don't be a tube steak from last week. So, yeah, you know, there's a – whatever the hell it is. So they're on the plane. They're playing arenas and Crittenden are facing each other. There is like a pull-out table. Yeah. It's one of these private planes.

Pull-out table in between them. And Karan Butler was sitting there sleeping he said his eyes popped open uh he was awoken from his slumber when he heard javaris yell put the money back put the fucking money back he's like oh what's going on here arenas replied i ain't putting shit back get it the way tyson got the title might or fight or whatever you got to do to get your money back otherwise you ain't getting shit. That's what he tells him. Now apparently Caron Butler says when Arenas put the money

in his pocket, Javaris lunges over the table to grab him and try to choke him. So here comes Antoine Jameson, who's a big guy. Antoine Jameson's a big power forward with shoulders that are just monstrous. Everybody thought he was going to be the next Jordan. Yeah, no, no, no. But he came in and

he was so good at North Carolina, though. I could see that. Anyway, never mind. So Jameson comes in and just leaps up and shoves pins Javaris to the table and, you know, holds him there for a minute with his body weight, telling him to chill the fuck out, relax. With his arm

just arm weight alone. Yeah, with his giant arm and shoulder. Now, Gilbert Arenas has a slight different story of it. This is Gilbert Arenas' quote on exactly what happened. Oh, boy. And this is him. When he says, ah, he's talking about him. He says, quote, Butler and I were asleep, and JaVale McGee, Javaris Crittenton, and Earl Boykins were playing cards.

By the time I woke up, Crittenton was balls deep and losing. So I decided to join the game. Oh, my God. Crittenden got booed, which means he did get one book of spades. So he had to match the pot, which was $1,100. But $800 was his, so he just lost $800. And now the pot was $1,400 it 1100 of it is his that is confusing as fuck but he's in for 1100 bucks on the table basically in a 1400 pot a 1400 pot that arena's

just put in his pocket all his money basically pretty much so karan butler gets up and he says hey everybody shut the fuck up all right that's his role to say everybody shut the fuck up calm down he's the voice of reason he, how much was in the pot? So they tell him $1,100. And so Karam Butler tells Arenas, it shouldn't be that hard to pay what you owe him. We all make a great living, so just pay the fucking money. And he said, a man who has an $111 million contract shouldn't be fighting over $1,100. That's true.

He said that the message was not received. So the two kept arguing as they came in for a landing. As they get to the airport shuttle to take us to the cars, they're still fighting over it. They're still jabbering back and forth. So the team president, Ernie Grunfeld, tells Butler, please talk to them. He's like, just make this better. Stop this from happening. Why is a man that doesn't pay for valet gambling?

That's what I'm saying. Why are you doing that? I won't pay for valet. That's $5. But I'll get into a $1,400 card game. That's what I'm saying. Why are you doing that? I won't pay for valet. That's $5. But I'll get into a $1,400 card game. That's what I mean. Fucking retarded. It's a cheapness.

It's a cheapness of stupid magnitude. And it gets worse. And it's not in a casino. It's just like with your buddies. So you feel like, you can just give me that money back. Yeah, fuck that. No, that's bullshit. Yeah.

I don't know. I guess he just jumped in from being asleep and won his money. And he was like, no, I've been losing for hours. No. Ridic bullshit. Yeah. I don't know what happened. I guess he just jumped in from being asleep and won his money. And he was like, no, I've been losing for hours. No. Ridiculous. Awesome. Karan Butler said, they keep arguing. I tried to keep them apart.

I tried to do everything. They're still going at it. Everyone could hear him. They're yelling him. Arena says to him, I'll see your ass at practice and you know what I do. And so Javaris replies, what the fuck do you mean you know what I do? So Gilbert Arenas said, I play with guns.

So Javaris says, well, I play with guns too. So now they're like threatening I'm going to kick your ass from give me my money back to I'm going to kick your ass to let's shoot each other now. This has escalated quickly over the course of an airport shuttle. This is just going from the airport to their cars.

This isn't like on the way this isn't a long trip on a duel already they're going to duel ridiculous this is awesome two days goes by nothing else happens it's cool nothing happens the next day they have the next day off and then december 21st practice starts at 10 o'clock in the morning yeah so everybody comes in a little early uh karam butler enters the room, and it's a fucking trip of a scene. He walks in there, and Gilbert Arenas is standing in front of him. He has two locker stalls. It's the locker that Michael Jordan had when he was with the Wizards briefly.

He had a double locker, and they gave that to Arenas. So he's standing in front of this. It's just funny that this is Michael Jordan's locker that this is going to happen in front of. It's ridiculous. of this it's just funny that this is how michael jordan's locker that this is going to happen how much posturing is that by the way that like when you come in and you and you're the other guy and you're forced into this little locker yeah then you look over to the guy that also has your fucking money and he's got double the room that's just like yeah he's the star of the team he's got the bigger dick already well what he does have gilbert arenas i'm not sure about his dick but what he does have is on the bench there, he has

on a towel, he has four guns laid out. Oh my god. And there is a, he has a little card there and written on it, it says pick one. He has, and he tells Javaris has his back turned in front of his locker, not looking at him, and he says

to Javaris, Gilbert Arenas says, hey motherfucker, come pick one. I'm going to shoot your dick off with one of these. See, that's where I heard it. And I was like, this guy's a fucking menace. So he says that. Now, he claims that that's not what he said. He claims that he had the guns and told Javaris, pick one to shoot me with if you're going

to shoot me so much. If you're such a me with if you're going to shoot me so much. If you're such a fucking man, you're going to shoot me here. Pick whatever one you want. I'm right here. Shoot me. That's what Arenas claims that he did. That's not what he said. Okay.

So Javaris says, oh, no, you don't need to shoot me with one of those. I've got one right here. Yes. And turns around with a loaded pistol pointing at him. Holy shit. They're not laying on the ground. He didn't say, I have one, and held it up. He, finger on the trigger, loaded fucking gun, pointed at him like he is Doc Holliday.

Holy shit. He says, I've got two of them. One for each of you. He said, I've got one right here. That's straight gangster. That's some gangster shit. I don't need one of those. I brought my own, motherfucker.

Oh, by the way, cocked and everything. Wow. Ready to fucking go. Wow. It's ready to go. So other players had been walking in. Turned the fuck around and left. They said they're all like, hey, man, joking about, hey, last night we did that and that

girl was dancing. Why is Zavars got a gun? Oh shit, and backed out of the room. They were like, what the fuck, man? Why is he pointing a gun? There's guns on the thing. Right. This isn't normal.

There are far too many guns in this locker room right now. This shit is not fucking normal. So at first they thought it was like a joke, and then they realized it wasn't. They were like, I'm getting the goddamn out of here. They would leave, and they would lock the door behind them, too. Let's not tell anyone else not to get in there. Somebody throw some shit in front of that door. Yeah, so Butler stays.

Butler apparently, as he talks about in his book grew up in a really really bad neighborhood he's like i wasn't really that afraid he's like cool it's wednesday he's like strays would come in the house all the time and shit literally like straight windows he's like i ain't afraid of that shit so i he said i stayed and i talked to javaris and told him to calm down he said i calmly talked to him told him that his entire career not to mention his life would be over if one if he he pulls that trigger, right. Is everything for you is over. If you do that, be cool.

He said he looked back at Gilbert Arenas and Gilbert was, was, you know, backing out of the room at that point. He was leaving like, okay. So he was getting out of there. So like I said, I play with guns, not I shoot people with guns. Unreal. Right. So Javaris slowers the gun. And, and he says,

Karan Butler says that he knows, as Gilbert Arenas was backing out, he says, I know he was thinking I went too far. I had a gun pointed at me, and it was loaded. Like, fun is fun, but this guy almost shot my ass in the locker room. Somebody calls 911 outside the locker room. Coach Flip Sanders was too scared to even go in the locker room. That's amazing, first of all. The coach is too scared to go in there.

He scared a silver-haired middle-aged white man away. Yeah, he did. That's awesome. He scared him away. I'm trying to think of a coach that would go in there. I'm thinking like John Thompson, the old Georgetown coach. I could see. Oh, you know who?

He'd have kicked the door and been like, motherfucker, put that gun down. You know who else is Pat fucking together? Pat Riley. Yeah, Pat Riley would walk in there and be like, shoot me in the head. You see this hair? It will not move. Van Gundy would have walked in with his hair all crazy. Why do you have a gun? What's wrong with you? So, anyway, the incident... Pat Riley

would... He'd walk in there with goons and he'd be like, we said put that shit down. The incident does not become public for a week. Somehow they hid this... This did not leak out of this organization for a week. That's unbelievable. This would have gone down to ticket sellers. This would have disseminated.

People at the window would be like, do you know what they did now? Dude, this is amazing. It wasn't that long ago. It's only seven years ago. TMZ was out. That's what I mean. A lot of this is on TMZ. That's how I heard about it.

Yeah. Yeah. It's incredible. So after this happens, it's wild. People are like, they don't understand it. Once it comes out, a guy named David Tellip, who's the national recruiting director for scout.com. He's known Crittentons as he was like 13 because they start following these guys around when they're 13, when they're nationally, you know, skills like that. Yeah. He says, quote, it doesn't match up with the guy.

I knew him in high school. He was a kid who kind of always worked for what came to him. And it doesn't make a lot of sense about Javaris, about uh gilbert arenas he said i've never seen javaris with a gun to me it's ludicrous yeah they're like i don't understand it like there's one of his teammates said that he's known him since he was 11 it's like i don't get what's going on here so new year's day 2010 is when it breaks on the press nationally so everybody's home watching tv and shit and they see this new year's day everybody in amer America is off, too. Everybody's off. Nobody's at work. No, hardly any.

So players, they just basically, the league said and the team said, everybody's fucking suspended until we figure this shit out. No one come here anymore. Just you guys are nuts. Stay home. Yeah. So January 14th, police search Javaris Crittenton's apartment looking for a gun or looking for whatever, and nothing was ever found on it. So he borrowed a gun to go confront? Well, he probably ditched it.

He knew he was smart. He probably ditched it. Arena, several years later, would have a different take on it, too. Or not a different, but an additional take on it. Several years later, he said that Karam Butler, quote, what he called dry snitched. What the fuck is that? He said that Butler hid Crittenton's gun after the incident, which allowed him to escape with a misdemeanor.

He ends up what's happening, whereas we'll find out Arenas is charged with a felony. Yeah. He's charged with a felony, which he did have the gun out first. He had four of them out first, which is aggressive. With a threat, pick one, bitch. Yeah, that's aggressive. He called a motherfucker pick one. That's a little much.

With a threat pick one, bitch. Yeah, that's aggressive. You called a motherfucker pick one. That's a little much. So Crittenton, on January 15th, 2010, he pleads guilty to misdemeanor gun charge. He, as part of the splea agreement, prosecutors agree to drop a second misdemeanor charge, and they recommend a sentence of probation. Yeah.

The judge in the case agreed with the prosecutor's suggestion. He gets one year. Crittenton gets one year of unsupervised probation and $1,250 in fines. That's pretty brutal. That's not a lot. That's pretty steep. That's nothing, really. I mean, it's unsupervised probation.

So that's basically if you don't get arrested, nothing happens. But does he have to take P-tests or any of that shit? No, no, no. It's unsupervised. Okay. So unsupervised just means that don't get arrested. Okay. Don't show up on paper and we don't fuck with you. Yeah, you don't have to visit an officer. he only has to pay a $1,250 fine.

Whatever. I don't know. It seems steep for somebody that doesn't do shit. He did pull a load of gun on somebody that wasn't holding one. That's a little much. Kind of, kind of self-defense because Gilbert, Gilbert fucking egged him on.

He did egg him on. And he brought four guns. But he, it's a loaded cocked gun. Yeah, that's true. That's a bit much to point at someone in a professional environment. Yeah, that's a good point.

If it was on the street, I would have said, all right, fine. Yeah. You're in a goddamn locker room of a fucking NBA team pointing a gun at a man who makes $100 million. We're through the looking glass on this shit. It's weird. You're about to shoot their blue ribbon pig. Yeah.

That's crazy. Shit is fucking weird, man. He also agrees to begin a mentoring program to children in D.C. and work with the NBA on relief for Haiti earthquake victims. So he's got that sort of – they want him to do charity shit. So, you know, it's unlawful possession of a firearm. What's the hot commodity right now? What's the hot thing that people are donating to Haiti?

That's the one. Haiti, we'll make him do that then. Yeah, that'll work. He's going to donate to the Red Cross over and over again. He served like two days in a halfway house for some reason. I don't understand what that was for, but whatever. His attorney, Peter White, who sounds like a silver-haired, middle-aged white man extraordinaire, he said that, quote, Mr. Crittenden, who was 21 years old at the time of this incident,

has never before been arrested or charged with any crime, and with today's misdemeanor plea for possession of an unregistered firearm, accepts responsibility for his conduct he looks forward to explaining his actions to the nba and returning to the basketball court as soon as possible yeah it's uh it's just it's just one of those one of those uh disclaimers at the end of an ad that's all that is that's so silly he said mr crittenden brought a lawfully owned unloaded handgun into washington dc only because he legitimately feared for his life. Only it was it was loaded. Right.

That's the difference. It was now Gilbert Arenas a few days later pleads guilty to a felony charge and faces sentencing in March as a as a plea agreement. Prosecutors aren't going to seek more than six months in jail. And both of them are suspended without pay indefinitely. Indefinitely. That was an indefinite suspension, which was wild. March of 2010, they suspend them for the rest of the season. See, and that's why everybody acts like Gilbert's such a hard-ass.

Because in the situation— Yeah, he got the felony. He was the instigator. He was the instigator. But he didn't pick a gun up and aim it at somebody. No, that's true. Everybody's wrong here. Nobody's right.

Everybody's wrong. That's so amazing. If I was an NBA team, because I hear about this all the time, beefs over gambling. That would be my number one thing is, you motherfuckers aren't allowed to gamble on the plane. Fucking period. Period. Not allowed to gamble on the plane. You want to gamble after everything?

You want to go to somebody's house and gamble? Gamble. You want gambling on team premises. I'm sorry. Because this happens all the time. And it's illegal. Hello. Well, it's just guys getting fights over it.

You can't be on the court not wanting to pass to someone because he won $600 for you the night before. That's a good point. It's bad for morale. Bad for business. Bad for business, bad for morale. Now, at this point here, we've got to go to a Jarrett Jack quote. Jarrett Jack was the guy who played point guard at Georgia Tech before Javarius got there. And he has some really perfect thing to say here.

He says, quote, one thing my agent told me when I came into this league, he told me, you can never be worse than your problems, which is as smart as shit. If your problems are big, you better play bigger than your fucking problems. Yeah, that's a great fucking piece of advice. Well, that's a silver-haired, middle-aged white man telling you, you can fuck up as commensurate to your ability. Other than that, you can't fuck up more than you are so uh two as that goes you you're not gonna if you're gilbert arenas and you fuck or if you're uh javaris crittenton and you fuck up like this and you average 5.3 points a

game that's not enough ain't gonna last long uh for this season though he did make 1 million 477 920 dollars he's made three million dollars in his life already. He's made $4,144,680 in his career. At 21 years old. Yeah, he's 23 at this point now. Or 22. And that's what he's made. His NBA total's up to now because guess what, guys? That's it for the NBA for him.

Oh, boy. That's it. 23 washed up out of the league. Ouch. Because of this and lack of ability and other factors. But if you're smart, you can make that last for the rest of your life. You can. And if you really work hard, you can reform your image and get back into the league next year if you don't fuck up more.

We'll find out how that goes. Okay. In the NBA, he played 113 games, 5.3 points, 2.4 rebounds a game, 1.8 assists per game, 16.4 minutes per game. So not all that. Not a Hall of Fame career. No. Yes. game so not all that not not not a hall of fame career no yes so once we get to now we're in 2010 here uh dolla as we said had been killed last year so all the guys around him start to get

tighter uh javaris starts to hang out with k swiss and k swiss's little k swiss's best friend known as little swiss oh boy or sometimes flocco And we're going to call him Flacco to avoid confusion. Flacco is a small-time weed dealer and sells some other shit, too. The gang, they like him. The Mansfield Crip guys, these guys that he hangs out with, they like him. He likes them. They don't judge him. Because everywhere else he goes, he's like, oh, you're that guy that fucked up.

They don't give a shit. They're just like, hey, he's a decent guy. For them, he's the guy that crossed over LeBron 10 years ago absolutely he didn't feel like he was a gang member he just felt like he hung out with them but he also gets a uh a nickname a tattoo worse than a fucking nickname a tattoo on his stomach on his stomach of a hand making a c for the crypt it's the crypt logo basically i guess you call it a logo. The gangs have logos now. He gets that large on his abdomen, tattooed. So that's a bad sign.

Jesus. Mia, his girlfriend that we've talked about, said- By the way, that tattoo will get you shot at a public pool. How about don't do that? Yeah, that's a dumb idea, probably. That's so stupid. But he does it anyway. Mia said, quote, he had a fence around him in Atlanta.

When he came to a different city, it was harder. In L.A., he thought he was building a white picket fence, but he was building a black barbed wire one. That makes a lot of sense. That sounds mildly racist. A little bit, yeah. She's black, I think, though, so we'll let it slide on this one. And she had to deal with this asshole, so whatever she has to say is probably okay. Yeah, so she can say whatever she wants.

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July 21st, 2010, Javaris kind of, reality comes knocking on his door. Actually, it's not reality. It's two LAPD detectives. That's super reality. Yeah, they hold their badges up and say, hey, we're here. He lets them in, and they're asking Javaris about his relationship with K-Swiss and Flacco and their possible involvement in a recent double homicide.

Holy shit. Javaris mumbled through his answers, said he seemed surprised. He downplayed his friendship with them, like, I kind of know the guys and all, but I don't know them, know them, that sort of thing. Said he had no connection to the murder that they did, obviously. know him know him yeah you know that sort of thing said he had no connection to the murder that they did obviously this murder two and a half months earlier uh k swiss and flocco parked a rented jeep and uh just west of a street that they were looking at they reclined their seats all the way back so they could wait for people they were waiting for member of the member of the playboy

gangster crips yeah who had shot k swiss in the torso three weeks earlier. This is some hardcore shit that's going on. Three weeks after getting out of the hospital for being shot in the torso. He's looking for revenge. He's hunting somebody. He is. And when they find this guy that they're looking for, the Playboy gangster Crip, and it was him and his wife that were getting into the car. So Flacco jumped out of the car and ran up and shot at the guy.

Missed him, but he did hit his wife. Asshole. And killed their unborn baby. Oh, Jesus. So that's rough. The wife didn't die, but the baby died. The baby did. So that was rough. So the police obviously are interested in finding out what happened there.

You know, curious. Yeah. Curiosity. So Flacco and Kay Swiss stashed the guns and all that kind of shit. Now, the reason why they're asking Javaris about this is because the next day Javaris came to see them, and Flacco asked if Javaris could get him a ticket to Atlanta, a plane ticket. He said that he had—Flacco said he had urgent family matters, and he doesn't have a credit card, and he needs someone to pay for the credit card with a credit card, and he'll give him cash.

Javaris is frugal again, and he and he said no i can't pay with my credit card he literally was like i can't use my credit card can't do that oh shit that'll the bill and interest rates like he's future business leaders of america he's thinking about interest 13.9 percent apr on your plane ticket no way that shit eventually he told him to ask somebody else and all this but eventually javaris says fine he buys him a one-way ticket on his american express card uh flocco does give him the cash pays him found that. Now, once all this goes down and they're looking for these two guys, they're looking for Flacco and K-Swiss, they find a plane ticket in his name, all that, and they do the back check and they find credit card receipts that lead to Javaris.

So they knock on his door and they're like, what's your deal here? Why are you financing this clown that you barely know? Exactly. So T-Loke, T-Loke again, he says about Javaris, quote, he was scared to death about the whole incident. Talk to the police. Just tell them what your involvement was. He didn't have no involvement on it, but police kept sweating him to see if he knew anything. So, yeah.

At this point, too, he has no career. He goes to Charlotte for the Bobcats to try out for them and does not offer to roster spot. So he's got shit is swarming around him. Imagine. He's just a mess. So what's he do is swarming around him. Imagine he's just a mess. So what's he do? He checks out. He goes to China.

What? He signs in China. Wow. He signs with the Zhejiang Guanxusha Lions. That's a lot of X's. That's a shit. There's no X's in there whatsoever. One Z and a whole lot of J's and I's and whatever.

The Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association. The CBA and not that one. The other one. The China Basketball Association. He does. He plays for five games and averages 25.8 points a game, but then gets cut. Why? He gets cut in five games.

He finds out on Christmas that he gets cut half a month into a one-year contract. He's cut by the team. The general manager said, yes, we are. this is translated from Chinese, by the way. Quote, yes, we're changing Crittenton. His individual offense is fine, but he's not doing a good job organizing the team offense. Also, his defense is bad and his shooting is off. Our new import, Kelly, has already arrived in China. Kelly?

Some guy. Some other guy. Trey Kelly. What? Trey Kelly. Trey Kelly. What's his name? Trey Kelly. Who knows? But yeah, they were like, his offense is good, but not enough. Not enough. So where's he go?

In January 2011, two weeks later, he goes to Bismarck, North Dakota, which is what one does to play for the Dakota Wizards of the D League, NBA D League, which is a developmental league, which is like minor leagues. Maybe you can get a look from a team and possibly get on a roster and try to work your way back in.

This is an affiliate of both the Wizards and Grizzlies. They share this affiliate. His cousin, Scooter, who we've talked about, goes back to Atlanta. He doesn't have his girlfriend. He's sitting in Bismarck by himself, just sitting in North Dakota, not too happy. Plays in five games there. averages 28 minutes a game, 14.5 points, 4.4 rebounds, 6.7 assists, 2.5 steals. A point every two minutes.

Not bad. That's pretty good. Guy said he was out of shape. People said he was out of shape. That'll happen. He didn't seem to have the drive, and he leaves after that. He got cut in a country that come up to his knees. Yeah, scoring 28 points a game, too.

But they were like, we don't like him. That's got to be so depressing. It is. It's got to be all washing over him. So January 2011, district attorneys summon him to testify against Kay Swiss and Flacco in a preliminary hearing. And it's only to confirm that he bought the plane ticket. He had to answer the questions. They said he answered meekly, and he basically talked to confirm that he bought the plane ticket. He had to answer the questions. They said he answered meekly, and he basically talked in a whisper the whole time.

Jesus. And he just said that, yeah, I don't know anything. I just bought the plane ticket. Something's wrong. Yeah, it's ridiculous. So April 21, 2011. This shit starts to really pick up here. He returns from L.A.

They're in Atlanta. Him and Scooter. He's with Scooter. They're going toward a barbershop on Cleveland Avenue, which is his old neighborhood. It's a shithole. Never go home. Stop fucking going home, you idiots. No, don't do it.

Don't go to LA either, apparently. Whatever. Stay in Washington. I'll say that. So anyway, he and Scooter get their hairs cut. They hang out talking barbershop style. You just said that. Their hairs cut.

They got their hair. That's how it should be called. Get your hairs cut. Yeah. Because you didn't get a haircut. Then you're getting hairs cut. That's cut. They got their hair. That's what, that's how it should be called. Yeah. Your hair's cut. Yeah. Cause you didn't get a haircut. You're getting hair's cut. They got their hair as a, as a two O plural heads.

I was talking about their heads, not their individual hairs. They got their heads lined up. Each got a haircut. Um, and they, they hang out for a while talking. I guess it was like a couple hours about 11 PM.

A guy named big boo was, uh, had left the barbershop before him. This is a guy. He's a leader of a ROC street gang, which is Raised on Cleveland Street is the name of the ROC. Clever. They know him. So Javaris and Scooter walk outside toward Javaris' black Porsche.

Remember, he's got a black Porsche. And two men pop out of the shadows and rush toward them. One looked him in the eye, raised his gun up. Now, Javaris knew who these people were, but he wouldn't tell police about this. But he knew that it was a guy named Lil' Tick. Lil' Tick is Trontavious Stevens, who was only 17 at the time. Wow. Lil' Tick.

Lil' Tick said he had nothing to do with the shit. Okay. But Javaris said, I saw Lil' Tick, goddammit. Lil' Tick, he's been a little shithead in the neighborhood forever, fucking shit up. He's a hardcore gang member since he could walk. Now, Javaris hands over to him $55,000 worth of jewelry that he had on him. Why does he still have that? Yeah, he surrendered.

It's a $25,000 black diamond necklace, a $30,000 black diamond watch, his iPhone, and $25 in cash is what he hands over. He is a cheap fuck. That's a cheap fuck. That's all he's got in cash. That's all he's got in cash. But he's got all that shit on him. 55 Gs around his neck and on his wrist. Police asked Javaris to identify them, but he said he was livid and refused.

His car had been stolen two weeks earlier. Also, he had a car stolen, so he was pissed. They tried to show him photo lineups. He wouldn't even look at them, and he just only would tell police, quote, I'll handle it. Wow. So he's saying he's going to handle it. That's gangster.

Unreal. And now during this time, too. And he gave him an iPhone, too. Yeah. And you know it didn't have any paid for apps on it. They were all the free ones. All pirate shit. spent a much of his free time at this point he's hanging out with his mom and his two younger sisters too like on the surface he looks fine they go to church every week yeah he's trying to rebuild his reputation on the outside he even attempts to reconcile with

his father at this point who has not been around his father left you didn't even ask about that we figure he's a 13 year old girl the father probably doesn His father left early. We didn't even ask about that, did we? We figure he's a 13-year-old girl. She probably doesn't have a dad around. They probably didn't get married, I don't think. She doesn't have the father of the child around. I guess he had a lot of health problems, too, this guy, his father. Liver problems and things. Yeah, PJ is back here. We have PJ.

PJ said he's a family type of guy. When he was back, he was real focused trying to get back on track, but he wasn't back on track because he's going broke fast. He's paying two mortgages. He's got lawyer fees. He was real focused trying to get back on track. But he wasn't back on track because he's going broke fast. He's paying two mortgages. He's got lawyer fees. He's got 55 grand ripped off. Yeah, he got 55 grand.

And he asks PJ, who everyone in the community knows PJ. He's well-respected. He's like the, you know, everybody just, you wouldn't mess with PJ. He said, hey, will you please call Big Boo and get my shit back for me? I want my shit back. So he tries to broker the deal. Yeah, but at the time police were investigating

a murder of some bartender somewhere and began tapping calls that Big Boo made. They tapped Big Boo's phone. So overheard by police were PJ asking for the jewelry and Big boo saying he's not giving shit back the the gang members were sending pictures of the jewelry back and forth to each other and all this shit yeah they're just mocking him at this point they got their dick on his

fucking chain yeah absolutely i got this shit july 2011 three months after the initial after the barbershop deal javaris is leaving a nightclub with Scooter, of course, and they're robbed again. God, Jesus. Again at gunpoint. And Javaris is seeking to have his jewelry replaced by insurance. And the problem is, though, Javaris contacted the appraiser and he was told that his insurance had just expired. So now he's out everything, the jewelry.

Every time he keeps getting fucking robbed, he feels like everyone's setting him up. He feels like they's setting him up. He feels like they're waiting for him to go places and they're stealing shit from him because they probably are. That's how people work. Because they know he's got you. That's how gangsters work. You know what I mean? So August 14th, 2011, there's a 911 call, a frantic call from an anonymous person that says Crittenton, the basketball player, had just shot at Lil Tick's little brother, who looks just like Little Tick,

apparently. Smaller Tick. Smaller Tick. Right. Mini Tick. From a black Porsche. Okay. And this is just a few doors down from where Javaris grew up, like his childhood home.

It's like three doors down, he shot at this guy's little brother and missed. This guy's gone all around the world, and he came back three doors down to shoot somebody. To shoot somebody. But he missed, though. He missed. So now that's getting investigated. There's only, all it is is rumor and innuendo that it's, you know, it's Crittenden and they shot him from a black Porsche.

They're like, yeah, whatever. That just might be neighborhood shit. Right. Schick gets out of hand because they know there's a beef with those two. Everybody knows about it. Sure. August 19th, 2011. This is when shit gets real here.

Javaris and Scooter. Fucking Scooter, man. See, Scooter's not so cute. I told you. They rent a black Chevy Tahoe hybrid SUV. Why are you renting vehicles if you have a Porsche? Let's find out. In Fayetteville, Georgia. Not there. It's for

Scooter's birthday. Scooter did not have a credit card. He reserved the car using Javaris' card. His credit card. Now we got a paper trail to Javaris. Oh my God. So later that day, Javaris goes to Buckhead in North Atlanta. He watches a hoops tournament. It's King of Hoops, some tournament that he'd be playing in later that weekend

because he was playing in some league, whatever. Fifteen miles south about this is where they're going to have a problem, though. They stop there. There is a woman named Julian Jones. She's known as Peapie. This is the worst damn nickname I ever heard. Everybody's got a goddamn nickname, and they're all terrible. This is a family nickname, not a street nickname.

She's a 22-year-old girl, 22-year-old woman. She has four children. Four. Oldest, seven. 22. Oldest is seven. Youngest, 10-month-old. Holy shit.

Okay. She's got a lot of kids. Yeah. She has a shitload of kids. Sheest is seven. Youngest, 10-month-old. Holy shit. Okay. She's got a lot of kids. She has a shitload of kids. She is hanging out. This is her one night, I guess, one night a month her aunt watches her kids. Her two aunts watch her kids. She has one night a month to herself. Imagine that.

Imagine having four kids at 22 and you have one night a month to yourself. A month. Holy shit. Every 30 days you get one night to yourself. Not even the day because you're working several A month. Holy shit. Every 30 days you get one night to yourself. Not even the day because you have to work in several jobs to support this shit. You just dance in the streets I figure until you fall asleep and then they drop the kids

back off. Until the street lights come on. That's it man. So she's excited. It's 9.30 p.m. She's outside. She's hanging out with Lil Tick on Make and Drive and she has some friends coming over they're going to go to a late night barbecue and hang out and she's probably going to drink and just have a nice night. Get the fuck away from here.

So, you know, tick, they were hanging out. They're sitting there. Everybody liked Peapie, by the way. She's known as a really nice person. Everybody loved her. Just a sweetheart of a woman. You know, no way to dislike her. Just a happy-go-lucky person, which is tough for a 22-year-old with four kids.

That's a lot. So at this point, a black SUV. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Is it a hybrid? It's a hybrid, as a matter of fact, with dark-tinted windows. Crazy. Creeps up, make and drive. Pea pie at one point as the car was rolling up, handed a little tick of lighter to light

his cigarette. At that point, the window rolls down in the SUV and someone starts dancing. Four gunshots with a rifle. Oh my God. Four gunshots with a rifle are shot. A little tick dies on the ground. He's not hit, but who is hit is

by the way, the SUV drove and turned around and came back to see what was going on. That's how ballsy these guys are. They sped away. Who was hit is Peapie. Two bullets hit her, one in the pelvis, one in the thigh, and hit her femoral artery. Oh, no. So she's in bad shape. She's bleeding out.

She's bleeding out. Four kids are about to lose their mother. Yeah. And ambulances come at the hospital. The doctors and nurses, they perform emergency surgery. They tie her artery off, squeeze it shut. They pump her with blood. She passes out. They're trying to keep her blood going. They tie her artery off, squeeze it shut. They pump her with blood. She passes out.

They're trying to keep her blood going. They keep doing the pulses slowing down. They keep trying to pump her full of blood until finally 1134 PM. She's pronounced dead. God damn it. From this. That's terrible. The family is beside themselves.

Obviously she has four young children now who have no mother, nothing. Now on Monday, this is, I mean, I hate to breeze past this because this is fucking horrible. That's the worst. This is an innocent 22-year-old woman who's just hanging out on the street with her one night away from her kids, and she's going to hang out and go to a barbecue

and not bother anybody, and she gets shot and killed for standing there. That's fucking horrible, man. God damn it, Lil' Tick. Damn you, Lil' Tick. Well, fucking damn you, Javaris, as we'll find out here. Yeah, but Lil' Tick started this whole shit. Lil' Tick's a dick. Yeah, Lil' Tick's a shithead.

Lil' Tick's Gilbert Arenas in this situation. Yeah, it is. He pulled the four guns out. Yeah. Fucking jerk. So on that Monday, Scooter returns the rental car and asks to remove Javaris' name and credit card info from the rental contract. Yeah.

He then pays with money from a money order from a Flash Foods, which I don't know what that is, but whatever. Imagine a grocery store. I would think. That night, police go to Fayetteville. They knock on Javaris' front door, and with a search warrant, they find an AK-47, a black and silver pistol, and a shotgun, but not the high-powered rifle they were looking for. They said they found nothing of evidential value because it wasn't the gun they used in the shooting.

They even searched the ponds, the forests, everywhere around there, everything. An AK-47 is not a drive-by weapon. That thing just dances. That's so inaccurate. Yeah, it's not a great weapon. We know from experience. We try it all the time. It just doesn't work.

It's just a terrible gun. It's a terrible gun. Yeah, it is a piece great weapon. We know from experience. We try it all the time. It just doesn't work. It's just a terrible gun. It's a terrible gun. Yeah, it is a piece of shit. It's why we don't use them. So people start tweeting at him like crazy. Yeah. Fucking threats. Yeah.

Gangsters are threatening him and shit like. It's crazy. They were tweeting at him. They're tweeting at him. That's some modern day shit. Tweeting it on record. Yes. Now, meanwhile, the detectives find the SUV at the rental car place and

tear it the fuck apart for fingerprints, gun residue, anything they can find. Also, too, a witness picks out, picks Crittenden out of a lineup with his cousin also. Oh, shit. Yeah, Douglas Gamble's scooter's real name, by the way. They were arrested and charged in the shooting.

They're putting out a warrant for them. After a week after the shooting, it's all over radio and TV. Police found gun residue in the back seat of the rental SUV. They issue an arrest warrant for the scoots and for Jafaris. August 26, 2011, it comes out in the press. Police think he might be in L.A. They're like, where the fuck is he? We need to see him.

Lil' Tick. They talk to Lil' Tick. Theick, they talked to Lil' Tick. The Associated Press talks to Lil' Tick. The AP got a quote from a gangster. He said, quote, I didn't know him at all. I didn't know he existed and he didn't know I existed. I hadn't seen him a day in my life when he pulled up and started shooting. That's his claim.

I don't believe him. I don't believe that shit at all. He said it too clear too. So on August 26th, we have our one and only In Their Own Words. And it's all you need to hear from him, honestly. It's from Twitter. Oh, my God. It's a tweet.

And this is after it's announced in the press that he's wanted for murder. He's tweeting rather than figuring that out. He says, quote, In Their Own Words, quote, this is crazy. Trouble continues to follow me for some reason. I put my trust in God. That's his tweet. I don't know why. That's his quote.

That's what he's throwing out there into the world in his defense of being accused of murder. August 29, 2011, attorney Brian Steele says that Javaris will turn himself in. He says Mr. Crittenden wants to clear his name. He's innocent of the charges. August 30th, 2011, FBI agents finally find Javaris and take him into custody at the John Wayne Airport

in California. All indications that everybody found were that he was attempting to return to Atlanta on a Delta Airlines flight. Is that the Burbank airport? I believe it is. Crittenden's also charged with unlawful flight to avoid- He's staying the fuck out of LAX. That's hilarious.

He figured, man, John Wayne, no one will find me there. That's the one where if you're on the run, you fly out of Burbank. Yeah, you fly out of there, probably Orange County or something. Crittenden's also charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, the whole deal. Back in Atlanta, he's got supporters everywhere. Really? Huge numbers. He's the brawn of Atlanta.

They're coming out at his bond hearing. His lawyer brings a petition signed by 1,000 people asking the judge to grant bond. Several character witnesses, Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt, who coached him, his middle school teacher, his ex-girlfriend Mia, they all testified to what a great guy he is, and this isn't like him. Unbelievable. And mom, who's still 32 at this point. Yeah.

The prosecutors are trying to say, he's involved in gang shit. We need to keep him. He can't get out. One of the prosecutors said, quote, this is very concerning to our office that gang activity extends beyond the street level, but actually ventures into professional sports. And what type of message that actually extends to the young people here in the city of Atlanta? We are so very concerned with it, and we want to ensure that the young people here in the city don't copycat these efforts. Yeah.

Fair. Prosecutors bring up that he has a huge Crips tattoo on his stomach. You can check that out and say he's in a gang, but he denies that he's in the gang. He just says he just hung out with them socially, so you get a giant tattoo on your stomach. That's basically what a gang is. That's a gang. Exactly. You hang out with them socially, and then you do drive-bys and shit.

That's what you did. So they're asking for bond. They have the balls to ask for bond on this shit for murder. Guess what? He is granted bond. What? They fucking grant him bond at the $230,000. This is not five million. Not five million. So low. What? They fucking grant him bond at the $230,000. He's going to pay $23 million?

Not $5 million. That's so low. It's unprecedented for a murder case in Georgia. Really? Unprecedented. Yeah, it's ridiculously insane. Ridiculously cheap. Never happened before.

Yeah. Less than a month after he's arrested for murder of a fucking mother of four, he is walking out of jail. But I'm sure the judge was like he won't pay five dollars for for valet there's no way he's gonna pay 23 grand yeah well whatever freedom sir he will he will at that point he's not that cheap right um so february now he's out i wouldn't leave my fucking house at this point i would be whatever okay if i'm a little tick i'm in a walk-in freezer somewhere yeah if i'm javaris i'm doing the same thing i don't want i don't want to get in trouble anymore i got enough problems i'm out i don't want to go back february 23rd 2012

he is arrested yeah he's fucking arrested after being pulled over by police for going 60 in a 45 mile an hour zone in his porsche uh riverdale police major greg barney says that he they they tried to get him out they tried to give him ticket. He refused to get out of the car. He refused to sign the ticket. He was being a complete dick until the cop finally, they said, persuaded him to get out of the car, probably pulled a fucking gun on him, persuaded him to get out and was arrested for resisting arrest. And it was speeding and obstructing an officer.

When you get arrested, do they revoke your bond? Apparently not. Do you your bond? Apparently not. Do you lose that? Apparently not, because he's out again, December 20th, 2012. There's a lawsuit filed against him by the mother of his baby, a woman named Tyrese Daniels, for allegedly abusing her on several occasions, including a time when she says that he punched her in the face while she was breastfeeding. What an idiot. She says, Daniels says, quote, that he punched her in the face while she was breastfeeding.

What an idiot. She says, Daniel says, quote, that's as bad as you can get. You can't go anywhere now. Quote, we got into an argument over what the baby would wear for pictures. Javaris hit me in the face while I was breastfeeding because he said I had a smart mouth. Wow. Then he would also. He is such a piece of shit. He's a piece of shit, this fucking guy.

He punched a woman with a baby attached to her boob. Attached to her. Not holding it. It's attached to her nipple. Unbelievable. Jesus, that has to ruin the milk, I would think at that point. What a dickhole, yeah. Also, too, he sent her text messages threatening her, claiming she would end up just like her, quote, dead mother.

Whoa. You can't do that, especially when you're up for murder charges, you fucking idiot. What he meant was before she was dead, that's how she's going to end up. Wow. So he's been ordered to stay 100 yards away from her at all times. She has custody of the child temporarily. And obviously this isn't his first offense with a woman, so this is pissing me off here. Now, October 2013, there's a curfew imposed on him while he's out.

2013, there's a curfew imposed on him while he's out. He's to remain home from 7pm to 7am after allegations that he intent... This is unreal. After all this shit. Now there's twice now he's out on bond for murder, which is ridiculous.

They're preparing a trial for murder. He has to have a curfew because there is allegations that he attempted to intimidate the Fulton County Assistant District Attorney who's prosecuting his murder trial. Holy shit. What the fuck? How dumb are you? How fucking dumb are you?

Dumb enough to punch a woman with a baby attached to her tit? You came out of the whole situation as a child so good. You fucking ruined this. Future business leaders of America. Unbelievable. You're robbing people. You're not robbing people. You're in gangs.

You're getting robbed. You're doing all this stupid shit. You're punching fucking women. You've shot a woman to death. Yeah. To death for no fucking reason. I feel bad for all these people, Jimmy. How the fuck? But not nearly as bad as I feel for me for looking for two fucking hours for another

Javars Crittenton that doesn't fucking exist. So it's me. I'm the hurt one this week. This is episode number one. That's like the second one. Is it? Via Cheslov.com. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But this is like- But you found a fucking- Arch Leaster. Don't get me wrong. That's what I mean. I look hard. I spent two hours looking for- Arch Leaster. Don't get me wrong. That's what I mean. I look hard. I spent two hours looking for the guy. I'd be a boochie.

That's what I'm saying. I spent two hours looking for the fucking guy. But he's not there. I found a Russell Erxleben, for Christ's sake, and that spelling is weird. Holy shit. There's an X in that shit. Yes. So, at this point, he becomes involved in a custody battle over his son, and he needs

money for a lawyer, because he has no fucking money left. So what would you do now? Suck dick? I don't know. What do you do, right? What do you do at this point? It's all gone anyway. Who gives a shit what you do?

Get a job. What he does is he, by that would be the logical thing. He maybe used your connections through your college or whatever. Maybe he started recruiting or some shit. He uses different connections that he has. Go be a ball boy. And he uses his connections to get involved with a high-level supplier of drugs. Start selling coke.

So this guy sets Javaris up as a runner and links him up with an accomplice who has a car shipping business. Meanwhile, this is while the county is preparing a murder case. Murder charge. Murder charge. This is murder charges we're talking about. Murder. And he's fixing to be a drug runner.

Yeah. He's flying back and forth from L.A. to Atlanta and to Washington. He would have his car shipped full of weed, and then when he landed, he would pick up the car and hand its contents over to where he was supposed to go. So he would just get out and do that. Federal agents, though, had been tapping his K'nex phone for a long time. So on Wednesday, January 15, 2004, at 6 a.m., bright and early, DEA agents, federal marshals, and local police break down Javaris Crittenton's door.

Guns raised, banging on the door, fucking woke him up, parade his ass outside in handcuffs in the whole deal, do the perp walk out to the cruiser. In basketball shorts only. You know he was. You know it. No shirt. A quote from the police says a spokesperson for the Fulton County District Attorney's Office

said that Crittenton and other suspects are accused of selling multi-kilo quantities of cocaine and several hundred pounds of marijuana during a seven-month investigating dating back to June 2012. His mom's visiting him in jail because now they hold him. Now he's not allowed back out again. You're trafficking, you idiot. This is his third fucking problem. His mother comes and sees him. Everybody comes and sees him.

We have an anonymous teammate who sums up his personality here. He wouldn't give his name. He said, quote, as we saw in the Arenas case, if he feels disrespected by someone he will hold on to that he doesn't move on with arenas i think nine players out of ten would have let it roll off their backs because everyone knows that's just gilbert being gilbert he's always joking but crittenden doesn't have thick skin he's going to remember what somebody did to him would he do something that heinous when i saw that when i saw that this was apparently in retaliation for the robbery it made me pause i. I know he doesn't let things go, but to commit murder? I don't know what to think.

It's just a huge tragedy. No shit. That was so much, so sweet, so many sweet things about Arenas. That was definitely written by Gilbert Arenas. Yeah, no shit. You know, that's just Gilbert being Gilbert. He jokes a lot. That's all.

So they say that Javaris can't wait for this murder trial. They can clear his goddamn name. He's psyched. He's psyched. He's psyched. The odd thing is, do you know who the district attorney who is prosecuting this case is for Fulton County? He's a man named Paul Howard, who happens to be Dwight's uncle. Oh, Jesus.

So his father recruited him to the school. To play with Dwight. He played with Dwight to win the championship. And now his uncle is prosecuted. Old circle. The Howard family runs Georgia. They fucking run that shit. So he's up for murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to deal marijuana and cocaine, and then a host of other shit.

He's got 12 things. All kinds of charges. One of them is participation in a criminal street gang, which is like a RICO case. And he's saying he wasn't in the gang, blah, blah, blah. That goes back and forth. They're trying to say, like, he didn't get, like, jumped into the gang, but he got walked into the gang because he's a celebrity. You got a Crip tattoo on your belly, bro. Exactly.

And how about that? To be what he was, to come from where he came from, he waited all that time of being successful to now join the Crips. To now join the Crips. Exactly. It's fucking ridiculous. It's the most reverse way ever. So stupid.

So, yeah, they had to talk about the gang stuff. They had to have that charge, the gang thing. Otherwise, they're not allowed to bring up anything about gang, anything. So they couldn't say, like, well, that gang and this gang. You weren't allowed to say that. It would have to be just individuals. But if you have the gang charge, now you can talk about

how they're all part of gangs. Any gang, yeah. So it's a different thing. Also, Crittenton's cousin here, Douglas Scooter Gamble, faces the same charges. They're both due to stand trial. Finally, he's in the goddamn cell

sitting there. What are his thoughts? Holy fucking shit. What are his fucking thoughts? He's sitting there thinking, got to be thinking why. Why? I could have just tried harder. I could have played better in China.

I could have done more there. He's sitting there. He doesn't know what to do with himself. What if I saved some money? I could have been a future business leader of America. That's it. He's sitting there. Scooter fell asleep in the cell.

He doesn't know what to do. He's just sitting there. There's a knock at the door. And he opens the door. And it's Dexter Manley, interior designer. And he says, how is it you come to arrive here?

What you doing? Look at y'all, scruffy. Look at y'all in jail. Why are you doing this like this? Your clothes are very draft. I hope Gilbert didn't shoot your dick off. I want to see that.

I'm going to tell you now, that outfit just ain't doing you no good. This room is very, you got your cousin all sleeping in the corner looking all gross over there. This ain't good. What are you doing? Get it together, man. Just get it together, man. I'm a poof and a poof of pink,

of purple glitter. He's gone. Your posture doing that is ridiculous. I have to get into the character. So. Holy shit. April 10th, 2014, at the advice of Dexter Manley, I would imagine, he actually files a paper in court to be able to wear clothes in court, to be able to not have to wear his prison outfit, which is normal. It's a normal thing to do.

A lot of people file this, but I feel like Dexter Manley had something to do with it. I'm just going to take credit for that right now. You need some clothes. Absolutely. So April 29th, 2015, opening statements are expected on this day for the murder trial of Crittenton and Gamble. Like we know all about that. Right as it's about to start, he decides to take a deal. Really?

Javaris changes his mind. He decides to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a weapon and aggravated assault with a firearm. As a part of the agreement, prosecutors would drop the murder charge, which is a much harsher thing. Crittenden said that he took the deal because, quote, it was time to be a man. No. It was time to not go to jail for life. It's a bit late. Yeah.

Time to be a man. No. It was time to not go to jail for life. It's a bit late. Yeah. Jones's mother, June Woods, who's, that's Peapie's mother. Peapie's mother, June Woods, said, quote, my daughter was robbed of her life. The only way her children would know their mom is through stories and pictures, which is sad as fuck.

She's crying through all this. Crittenton hung his head through most of this. And one time he actually turned to the family and said, I'm sorry. He claimed he intended only to scare someone and he was heartbroken to learn he killed the woman. And prosecutors just say it was gang related. They're trying to get more time. And we have one more in their own words here on for what he says to the judge when they ask him for a statement before sentencing.

We have in their own words, quote, I apologize from the depths of my heart. I'm not a murderer. I made a mistake, one that I wish I could take back. That's his quote on this. That's it. Which is not enough. I wish I could go back. That's it.

That's not enough. Judge Sean LaGrua angrily, angrily interrupted Crittenton here, too. He was pissed. He yelled at him for calling the shooting an accident. He said, don't you fucking dare call a shit an accident. You went there with a gun pointed out the window and shot. Absolutely. Nothing accidental about this shit.

You're an asshole. So Gamble also pleads guilty here also. And Crittenton is sentenced to 23 years in prison. You, sir, may fuck off. Not even to life, though? 23. He pled. That's why he pled.

Okay, 23 years for manslaughter. For manslaughter, yeah. He pled. I mean, that's all you're going to get out of a plea. And his cousin was sentenced to three years in prison and 17 years probation for being the driver in this whole thing. Holy shit. That's so lenient for somebody that took part in taking someone's life.

Unreal. I mean, if it was a little tick, I mean, I wouldn't be so— Yeah, he's a gangster. Right. That's the life you lead. Yeah, if you rob someone at gunpoint for their jewelry, you might get shot for it. But this poor woman had nothing to do with anything. Peapie had shit to do with nothing.

She was just trying to get through a night. She's just on that one night of her month. She wanted to go have a couple beers, man. That's it. So if you can't get enough of Javaris Crittenton, good luck. You can find— You can write to him. It's actually difficult to find his shit out there.

You can go to Amazon.com and everything you find, including a signed 8x10 photo and signed autograph cards, all this shit come up as unavailable. Really? It's not there anymore. I guess somebody – they pulled it off. Nobody gives a shit. So you can't really find anything on Javaris Crittenton, but he will be in prison for a long fucking time.

You can write to him and get his autograph. He'll be there another 20 years. Good behavior, whatever. I don't know. But he sounds like a jerk-off. Maybe he won't be good behavior. He won't be well-behaved. No.

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