Suspended Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas scored a vital feat Friday, as he avoided prison time for his transgression gun conviction.Already outcast by the NBA until subsequent deteriorate for bringing 4 guns to the Wizards" locker room last Dec during a fight with a teammate over a gambling debt, Arenas was condemned to thirty days in a median house, 400 hours of village use - that cant be conducted at basketball clinics - and dual years of probation."What you did was a foolish and juvenile act," Washington, D.C., Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin told Arenas. "You should have taken this a lot some-more seriously. But I think you have demonstrated genuine remorse."Prosecutors asked for a three-month prison judgment for the transgression gun conviction, that routinely formula in prison time. Arenas" attorneys sought trial and village service, job his actions opposite Javaris Crittenton a misled prank. The limit chastisement was five years in jail.Arenas, 28, has until Wednesday to inform to the median house. He apologized prior to Morin, saying, "Every day I arise up wishing it did not happen."But the actuality that the three-time All-Star isnt going to prison was met with evident critique from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence."The actuality that Gilbert Arenas outlayed most of the deteriorate concerned with courts of law instead of basketball courts should be a cautionary story for veteran athletes - and all of us," pronounced the groups president, Paul Helmke. "This is the second time Mr. Arenas disregarded a gun law and prison time would have been an suitable penalty."In 2003, Arenas was convicted of carrying a secluded firearm in California and served dual years of probation. Although the Wizards could have attempted to blank the superfluous 4 years of his contract, value $80 million, for violating the dignified turpitude clause, group boss Ernie Grunfeld has pronounced that they will not go that route.
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