Gilbert Arenas On His 54 Point Game | Wizards vs. Suns (2006)
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Gilbert Arenas is in studio! The NBA legend is with us to talk about the current state of the NBA, being in the zone, and of course the time he dropped 54 points on the Phoenix Suns during one of the greatest scoring runs in league history.
(00:00:00) We kick off the show. (2:14) Gil joins us on the couch. (34:23) We go back to December 2006. (47:29) We dive into these rosters. (1:12:29) We get into the game. (1:29:10) We score the game. (1:40:01) We draft the Top 5 nicknames in sports history in The Chill Zone presented by Coors Light.
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| 0:00.0 | When I hear numbers like they lost 200,000, 500,000 a million, |
| 0:05.0 | I just assumed 95% they got cheated. |
| 0:08.0 | And then that person who got you says, look, you don't have the paid look. |
| 0:12.0 | Just let me throw some games in your name. |
| 0:14.0 | You bring some people here. |
| 0:16.0 | You bring somebody they lose, I give you 50, man. |
| 0:19.0 | That happens. |
| 0:20.0 | Now you don't realize that's the |
| 0:22.2 | mom. Welcome to games with names. I'm Julian Edelman. They're Jack and Kyler, and we're on a mission |
| 0:28.9 | to find the greatest game of all time. And on today's episode, we are covering the 54-point game |
| 0:35.4 | between the Sons and the Wizards from the 2006 NBA season |
| 0:41.1 | with NBA vet, Arizona Wildcat Legend, and a man that has absolutely no chill, Gilbert |
| 0:48.9 | Arenas. |
| 0:50.2 | And we're talking the current state of the NBA. |
| 0:54.8 | Yikes. |
| 0:55.7 | The players you have to worry about is if they can make an extra 200,000 doing something dumb, then try it. |
| 1:01.6 | What it's like to be in the zone? |
| 1:04.3 | I'm like Michael Jordan out there. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm doing dunks. |
| 1:07.2 | I just had no business doing. And who deserves a bodyguard |
| 1:13.2 | in the NBA? That's only made for |
| 1:16.1 | Alan Iverson, Kobe |
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