It's not an issue of humor. It's not an issue of jokingly intentions. But after the recent charade by one of the NBA's current great players, it should simply be about knowing right from wrong.

I get the fact he was enjoying a simple card game with his teammates. I also get the fact that he wanted to show a little humor with his teammate...

But the puzzling issue here is why did Washington Wizards' star guard Gilbert Arenas feel it was somehow logical and even remotely humorous to store guns and flash them in front of his comrades at an NBA facility? This past Wednesday (Jan. 6th) NBA Commissioner David Stern suspended the Wizards' all-star indefinitely without pay while under investigation by federal and local authorities for possible violations of strict gun laws in the Washington D.C. area. Arenas admitted recently he kept the guns in his locker and not his home due the recent birth of his child.

ESPN.com reports Wizards' head coach Flip Saunders has now banned gambling from the team plane after the Dec. 21st incident in which Arenas and teammate Javier Crittenton got into an escalated confrontation during a card game when Arenas pulled out the guns he had been keeping in his locker.

Unsurprisingly enough, the franchise has done all they can to ban Arenas from anything affiliated with the Washington Wizards. Reports indicate the Wizards have forbidden Arenas to attend any team practices, meetings or games and they have removed his huge banner poster from the side of the arena. And it doesn't stop there. The team's PR department has agreed to stay Arenas-Free by editing him out of the team's intro videos before the game, omitting sales of any Arenas' paraphernalia, even his jersey.

Now it appears the Wizards are officially attempting to move on as they negotiate contracts. Arenas' remaining contract of six years, $111 million is still an issue but the Wizards hope to avoid that by implying the morals clause. The trading deadline is also fastly approaching where team president Ernie Grunfeld may attempt to handle Arenas' contract.

But back to the lecture at hand...Why Gilbert?

Even though Arenas apologized earlier in the week, he still went on his Twitter page and posted little comments and jokes as if 'Oh well! I brought guns to my place of employment, no biggie!'

Huh?!

He couldn't have possibly thought he wouldn't be disciplined for this, could he? But now he's paying the ultimate price in being reared from the team without pay. And if you do the math, with each game Arenas misses, he'll lose around $147,200 of his $16.2 million he supposed to earn this season of that big six-year contract, and this is only his second year of that new contract.

As the investigations continue and teammates move on, Arenas has to come to grips with what he did but more importantly why he did it?

To make a joke?

To show off?

Maybe it was that pompous, arrogant, ego that we men possess. Whatever the case or whatever the situation, I truly hope Arenas learns from his mistake and comes back to be a prolific baller that we all watched and loved because I believe the moral of this whole scenario is this:

It's great to want to protect your children, but if you don't have a job to provide for them...

(insert solution here)