‘Untold’ Trailer Brings Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton NBA Beef to Netflix

Brothers Chapman Way and Maclain Way (The Kings of Tupelo) are back with more of their excellent Netflix sports-documentary series, Untold. And if you thought the guys might be running out of compelling subjects to cover, well, they got Gilbert Arenas this time.

There was a time in the early 2000s when Arenas was one of the NBA’s elite scorers. That All-Star-caliber career, and teammate Javaris Crittenton’s life, came crashing down on Christmas Eve 2024, when the two Washington Wizards guards pointed guns at each other in the team’s locker room.

“There’s always this line between being a prankster and going too far,” Arenas says in the trailer for the perfectly-titled Untold episode, “Shooting Guards,” “and I was always on that line.”

And perhaps you crossed it once or twice, Gilbert.

Following the incident, both players were suspended for the remainder of the season. While Arenas never fully returned to form, the fallout for Crittenton was much worse.

For all intents and purposes, the gun incident marked the end of Crittenton’s NBA career. His professional basketball career (at any level) was over when, in 2011, Crittenton was charged with the murder of Jullian Jones, a 22-year-old mother of four. Crittenton pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a weapon and aggravated assault with a firearm. Though he was sentenced to 23 years in prison, Crittenton’s time was later reduced to 10 years in a deal with the district attorney; Crittenton was released from prison on April 21, 2023.

Untold returns to Netflix on May 6, 2025 with a new trio of films rolling out weekly. The “Shooting Guards” trailer came out on Tuesday, April 15 — watch it below.

The film’s logline reads: “Former Washington Wizards teammates Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton shook the basketball world with their infamous gun incident in 2009, but what really went down when guns were drawn in their NBA locker room? Through raw first-hand accounts, Arenas and Crittenton unpack the events that had a life-altering impact on both men, and ultimately led Crittenton down a dark and tragic path. For the first time, this eye-opening documentary reveals the full story.”

“Shooting Guards,” directed by Walter Thompson-Hernández, has a runtime of 85 minutes.

In addition to the Way boys, executive producers on “Shooting Guards” are Ben Silverman, Howard Owens, Isabel San Vargas, Ryan Duffy, Doug Banker, Trevor Engelson and Tim Livingston. The documentary film is produced by Propagate and Stardust Frames Productions.

Watch the trailer: