"Tell them … tell the team to bear down"

“Gilbert Arenas’s return to his Agent Zero persona sort of coincided with the death of Abe Pollin, which led to a surprising number of laugh-out-loud obituary moments after Tuesday night’s one-point win over the Sixers. This is, apparently, how the Wizards mourn. For example, a reporter asked Gilbert for his favorite Abe Pollin memory.

“You know, after every win he would slap the [bleep] out of you in the face,” Gilbert said, cracking up the room. “He’d be walking around, slapping everybody. I just remember the players used to come in, and when he was getting ready to slap you, they’d just give him the duck-in.”

Then Gilbert showed us the backwards dodge move he’d use to avoid getting hammered in the face.I asked Gilbert whether he ever slapped Pollin back: “Ooooooh, no,” he said.

He was also asked whether he ever engaged in one of the three-point contests with his owner that Wes Unseld once made famous.

“Yeah, we got our witness of the three-point contest here, but he didn’t get close to the rim,” Gilbert said. “We did it about five years ago. I mean, that was the funniest thing we ever witnessed.”

Please read the rest of the article: Agent Zero on Abe Pollin’s death (Washington Post)