Gilbert Arenas’ Groin Hygiene Adventure

Gilbert Arenas is an interesting guy. From having Western-style gun standoffs with teammates in the locker room to running 60 red lights inside a four-month timespan in 2013, and aspiring to be the black Mr. Beast. No one will ever accuse No Chill Gil of being dull.

But the most interesting thing of all about Agent Zero may just be his groin hygiene.

The Worst Pain Gil’s Ever Experienced

For professional athletes, aches, pains, and injuries are the norm rather than the exception.

So when a Men’s Journal correspondent asked Arenas what the worst physical pain he’s ever experienced was, everyone expected him to say something formulaic along these lines. What he said instead was more surprising than the results of a paternity test on Maury.

Back in 2001 when Gil was a bright-eyed 20-year-old rookie with the Golden State Warriors, his veterans on that god-awful 21-61 Dubs team, namely Mookie Blaylock and Chris Mills, told him to shave his pubes because it would help keep his groin smelling like some fresh cut roses.

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Ever impressionable, Arenas heeded their advice. This wouldn’t have been so bad if he didn’t use his girlfriend’s rusty razor to do it, which ended up giving him keloids😨

For those not privy to medical terminology, a keloid is a type of scar tissue that can appear after a skin cut heals. But this wasn’t the worst part.

Gil went to see a doctor who prescribed him some medicine to apply to his private parts. Not such a bad thing right? Wrong.

Three Days Later

Desperate, Arenas poured the medicine he was given all over his crotch in hopes of some instant relief.

Instead, he woke up the next morning in excruciating pain. Turns out, the larger-than-prescribed dosage burnt the skin right off his scrotum down to his crack, everything was just raw sashimi flesh🍣

All of this went down during the season, so Gil still had practices to participate in and games to play, at a time when running felt like he was rubbing sandpaper against his sack.

In the end, he ended up using a numbing spray for an entire month until everything eventually healed up.

But he did learn his lesson, as he said to the interviewer that he “now uses clippers.”

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