Ex-NBA star says he was banned from county fair for winning all the carnival prizes

Gilbert Arenas, his children, and all of their new stuffed animals.

(Image credit: Instagram.com/g.i.l.b.e.r.t.a.r.e.n.a.s.)

last updated 28 July 2015

It took a former NBA star to prove to the world that carnival games aren't always rigged against the player.

We just got banned from all the basketball hoops at #orangecountyfair...every one screamed #theRimsarebent I screamed #hibachi ...#ArenasFamily #CountyFairRockstarsA photo posted by @g.i.l.b.e.r.t.a.r.e.n.a.s on Jul 26, 2015 at 5:38pm PDT

While Arenas did win the maximum number of prizes — players can take home just one prize per day at each game — he isn't persona non grata at the midway. "I'd say he looks pretty happy in the picture," Chris Lopez, vice president for RCS, told ABC7 Los Angeles. "Makes me wonder how he got all that home? Mr. Arenas is welcome back to the O.C. Fair any time, and that includes the basketball games."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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