from what i've gathered, arenas, crittenton and some teammates were indeed playing a card game on the flight back from phoenix, and both crittenton and arenas were coming up on the losing end, but arenas didn't owe $25,000, and the amount wasn't owed to crittenton, but to javale mcgee. Arenas bailed on the game unhappy with the rules, and crittenton was left to pay the pot, much to his displeasure, so he was trying earnestly to get arenas to pay his part. Tempers flared during this dispute and i'm told crittenton wanted to fight arenas for backing out of paying up. arenas, meanwhile, said he would burn crittenton's car, and crittenton said he would shoot arenas in his bad left knee.