It’s no secret that just a bronze medal for Team USA at the 2004 Olympics was a hard pill to swallow. For Dwyane Wade, the frustration could’ve been personal level, as he managed just 7.2 ppg at the event. Where do you take all this out? Your next matchups obviously and any person who poked the pain point was bound to suffer even greater wrath.

And so Gilbert Arenas did, as revealed by him in the recent episode of The OGs. Udonis Haslem mentioned Wade hated playing against Arenas. Meanwhile, the ex-Washington Wizards star himself admitted hating their match-ups. Revealing the reason behind it, Gil went back to the time he had trash-talked the former Miami Heat star after his ’04 Olympics run.

In one of his statements, the then-Washington Wizards star stated their team would play Wade the same way the Olympic teams did. “Just play a zone.” But watching The Flash go big in his initial season games, Gil realized his mistake of poking the Heat star. During the discussion on the podcast, Arenas recalled trying to pacify the situation over a phone call to Dwyane Wade.

But it seems the call did not come of much help when the two players eventually faced each other. “I remember at halftime, Larry Hughes was like, ‘hey, if you gonna start talking sh*t about players, you guard them. Because what he doing out there to you god damnit, he taking it personal,'” Arenas recalled on The OGs. 

Wade scored 37 points against Gilbert Arenas’ Wizards to secure a 118-106 win in their first matchup of ’05.

Dwyane Wade did not give much of a chance to Arenas in future matchups either

Further, during his appearance on The OGs, the ex-Wizards star mentioned the whooping by Wade was the last time he ever said anything about a player. But it seems one instance was enough for the 3x NBA champ to never let Arenas have an upper hand in their matchups except for an instance or two.

Notably, the 13x All Star faced Gil in 21 games throughout his career and maintained an 18-3 lead over him. While the score was 14-3 in regular season games, it remained 4-0 during the one time they clashed in a playoff series.

“That man molly whooped me my entire career,” Gil had said of Wade in a separate instance. Meanwhile, one lighter note, the ex-Heat star wrote he is a nice guy, but Gil tried bullying him. From Wade’s comeback after 2004 Olympics to Team USA’s redemption in 2008 Olympics, it’s clear the ’04 run was not to be poked at.

Stay tuned for more such updates. And join us for the exciting second episode of the “Dual Threat Show” as our host BG12 sits down with Georgia Bulldogs star and Mountain West All-Freshman Team Selection, Asia Avinger.