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Richard Jefferson: Gilbert Arenas was an ‘immature a-hole’ and that’s why he fell in the NBA draft

Gilbert Arenas recently took a jab at a former college teammate, and he may wish now that he hadn’t.

Richard Jefferson, who played with Arenas at the University of Arizona, roasted his former teammate in a TikTok video Tuesday in response to Arenas saying that he should’ve been drafted ahead of Jefferson in the 2001 NBA draft. Jefferson, now an analyst for ESPN, said that Arenas fell in the draft because he was an “immature a**hole.”

“Let’s talk about why Gilbert went from first round to second round,” Jefferson said. “It wasn’t because of his talent, because that man is a bad man.