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To Win, Arenas Says He'll Take a Pay Cut
While Gilbert Arenas, right, says he'd take less to win, Eddie Jordan, left, the coach with the NBA's fourth-longest tenure, can expect a bit more.
(By Nathaniel S. Butler -- Nbae Via Getty Images)
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Jordan was not at Verizon Center yesterday but said he would join Grunfeld and other members of the front office and coaching staff tonight for the draft. Jordan, a Washington native, has led the Wizards to consecutive playoff appearances for the first time since 1987 and 1988. He is entering the final year of the four-year deal he signed in 2003.
"We've said from Day One that we'd have internal meetings," Grunfeld said. "Those meetings have started and Eddie's going to get an extension in the near future, so that situation is going to be resolved. He's going to be our coach next year and for years to come."
Only Utah's Jerry Sloan, San Antonio's Gregg Popovich and Houston's Jeff Van Gundy have been with their teams longer than Jordan, who has a 112-134 regular season record in three seasons coaching the Wizards.
Arenas spoke by telephone yesterday from Los Angeles, where he learned that a Miami judge had issued a bench warrant for his arrest for failure to appear at an arraignment related to his arrest Memorial Day weekend for disorderly conduct. Judge Samuel Slom canceled the warrant after speaking with Wizards Director of Basketball Operations Tommy Sheppard, who told Slom that Arenas had never received notice of the hearing.
Though Slom said he confirmed that a written notification had been sent to Arenas's home address, he said in a telephone interview that he decided to cancel the warrant "as I do with everyone who misses an appearance for the first time and calls me" to explain.
"I never knew anything about a hearing," said Arenas, who was in Los Angeles for a photo shoot with Adidas. "I got off a plane this morning in L.A. and someone called me and told me. They never mailed me any information or called me to tell me that I had to be in court. I'm glad that it worked out."
Arenas and former Wizard Awvee Storey, who is a free agent, were arrested for disorderly conduct on May 27 after allegedly failing to get out of a busy Miami Beach street during an annual event called Urban Beach Week. An arrest warrant was issued for Storey on June 21 after he failed to appear for a court hearing. His agent told the Associated Press that he hoped the matter could be resolved.
Wizards Note : The Wizards have extended a qualifying offer to guard-forward Jared Jeffries. The move is a formality as it makes Jeffries a restricted free agent and gives the Wizards the right to match any offer made to him when free agency opens July 1.
The 6-foot-11 Jeffries is eager to test his value on the open market and has drawn attention from several teams, but both Grunfeld and Jordan have expressed a desire to keep him.
Staff writer Amy Shipley contributed to this report from Miami.
