"Maybe one day Gilbert Arenas will be all he can be as a basketball player.

That will also be the day I return home to my native Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro.

No senor _ File it under not going to happen.

Arenas is damaged goods. Duh, you say? Tell that to Magic GM Otis Smith, who seems to find Arenas as irresistible as one of those puppies in the pet store window.

The problem is that Arenas has been damaged good for a while, back to the days he was playing for the Washington Wizards. You didn't have to be a sleuth to figure it out: Due to various injuries, Arenas played in only 13, 2 and 32 games for the Wizards before the 2010-11 season, when he was suspended for most of the season for bringing a gun to work.

Despite all of this, Smith remained smitten with Arenas, a player he grew close to back in the days when they were both with the Golden State Warriors organization. The puppy love infatuation led to the trade from Washington to Orlando, where Arenas has emerged as an $17.7-million ball-and-chain for this organization."