{"id":96000,"date":"2025-06-13T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/96000\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:03:10","slug":"gilbert-arenas-on-kyrie-irvings-karl-anthony-towns-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/96000\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Arenas on Kyrie Irving’s Karl-Anthony Towns warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, former NBA guard Gilbert Arenas came under fire<\/a> for his bizarre rant about New York Knicks<\/a> star Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a>, taking personal shots at the center, including making fun of his body among other things, in the aftermath of New York’s playoff defeat. Kyrie Irving has since<\/a> come to Towns’ defense, using a recent Twitch stream to push back against some of the big man’s critics.<\/p>\n

Now, Gilbert is firing back<\/a> at Irving and others who blasted him for his remarks on his Gil’s Arena Show podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not going too far, the reason it’s not going too far is we\u2019re just picking and we\u2019re making fun of them, right? We\u2019re just trolling them,\u201d said Arenas. \u201cLike it\u2019s no different than when Chris Bosh was doing his stuff. He actually played to the camera doing the dumb s\u2014t. Is the camera looking at me. He\u2019s start doing that. This one is like yes, we\u2019re going out of our way to sit there and poke, but that\u2019s all it is. It\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of Arena’s expletive-filled remarks during his Towns rant certainly appeared to cross the threshold of innocent \u201ctrolling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tough times for the KnicksArticle Continues Below\"NewBob DeChiara-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Bizarre Karl-Anthony Towns criticisms aside, the Knicks have had a turbulent couple of weeks since their season came to an end vs the Indiana Pacers, first firing head coach Tom Thibodeau and having since been rejected by numerous NBA teams when inquiring about their coaches’ respective availabilities.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have also been linked to numerous trade targets for this upcoming summer, including Kevin Durant of the Phoenix Suns and Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, although the latter is looking more and more like a pipe dream at the current juncture.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen what direction the Knicks will choose to proceed in as it pertains to naming a new head coach and trying to maximize a roster that will soon have all of the majority of key pieces be on the wrong side of 30.<\/p>\n

Jackson Stone<\/a> is a sports journalist for ClutchPoints with expertise in covering the NBA, NFL, and CAA Football. The Mercer University senior from Atlanta is on track to graduate with a BA in communications, and he has bylines at FanSided and USA Today Sports’ Georgia athletics website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, former NBA guard Gilbert Arenas came under fire for his bizarre rant about New York Knicks star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,565,563,304,967,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-96000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-gilbert-arenas","10":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-kyrie-irving","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114676197251525347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}