Gilbert Arenas must be following Lebron James’ lead this time. Arenas has filed a formal number change for the 2010-11 season with the league, and will go from wearing 0 to the number 6. Why 6 you ask? Well, Arenas’ birthday is the 6th day of the year(Jan.6), and he was also suspended that day. Mike Miller of the Wizards currently wears 6, and gave the ok to give up his number to Gil. As bad as the Wizards are right now, Miller might be willing to do anything if it means he could get out of town like Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, and company did.
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Arenas changes his number for the same reason that Kobe did. They have a powerful PR trust behind them and changing your number is the best way to start rebuilding an image. Basketball, unlike other sports, has the players more exposed, and the association of a person with a number runs much tighter than in any of the other sports. So unlike LeBron who is doing it to sell even more jerseys, Arenas has to do it so that he can start to rebuild his image in the hopes that it does for him what it did for Kobe.
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