Gilbert Arenas jokingly addressed rumors that he cooperated with authorities in the NBA gambling investigation that led to the arrests Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier.
On Thursday’s episode of Gil's Arena, the former NBA star made his entrance wearing a Huskies 24 jersey and carrying a brown paper bag labeled "Informant Lunch."
When his co-hosts teased him about it, Arenas laughed and clarified, “Informant? Nah nah nah, this is lunch... This is my lunch, man. I didn’t get to eat it over there, man. I was talking too much.”
Joined by co-hosts Josiah Johnson, Nick Young, Rashad McCants, and Brandon Jennings, Arenas shifted from jokes to a more serious moment when he called out ESPN's Rachel Nichols for allegedly implying he "possibly snitched."
Arenas pushed back, saying, "I'm good for all the trolling. That's cool, but Rachel Nichols is foul... She used my video and she actually wrote that I possibly snitched."
He went on to insist that he had nothing to do with the recent NBA gambling scandal, remarking, "Two of them n****s is gambling on NBA. One is throwing poker games and robbing his friends. It ain't got shit to do with me.”
He also mocked how the media and authorities have framed the case, adding, “I see the word ‘mafia,’ but the only faces I see are Black. … International crime bosses: Blacks.”
Later, Arenas joked that he’d never risk crossing organized crime figures. “I watch enough movies to know the last group you want to snitch on is the mafia,” he said. “I watch Dateline. They still ain’t found people since 1947. I like my YouTubing career.”
The episode aired just hours after a federal press conference in which FBI Director Kash Patel announced that more than 30 people had been arrested in a years-long illegal gambling and fraud probe spanning 11 states, involving both sports betting and poker rigging operations.
Among those charged were NBA figures Billups and Rozier, who now face federal charges including money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy.
Arenas' comments come amid renewed public speculation about his own July 2025 arrest in Los Angeles for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business.
At the time, Arenas had publicly joked on a livestream that he was "snitching," but later clarified that his remarks were tongue-in-cheek and that he had "nothing to do" with the alleged operation.
