Gilbert’s Million-Dollar Pool: The Pics

UPDATED: These are confirmed as being photos of Gilbert’s pool. And, retroactively, he told the Wizards he was ok with them appearing on my blog. Which might not alleviate your privacy concerns, but it makes me feel better anyhow. More importantly, it’s crucial to note that this is far from the finished product, that it will eventually look MUCH more impressive, and that the project is already far past the point pictured here. So this is just a taste.

Just in case the trio of Fred Smoot, Chris Knoche and Steve Czaban weren’t reliable enough sources on the fabulousness of Gilbert Arenas’s million-dollar pool, which Czaban claimed will be one of the largest residential pools in America, I bring you alleged pics of said pool, courtesy of a regular Bog reader and diehard Wizards fan who recently visited the work site with one of the crews.

Now, would I stake my life on these pictures necessarily being of Gilbert’s pool? Not necessarily. But it’s hard for me to imagine another mansion featuring a stable of luxury cars, a pool-side grotto and a mural with Gilbert Arenas’s picture and the Capitol Building, so I’m feeling pretty good about these.

The reader provides some facts, which he gleaned from one of the contractors:

* The stone for the “mountain” cost nearly half a million dollars.

* There are three different fish tanks, one going in the “grotto,” one in the front hall, and one in the basement. Their normal retail price would have been about another half-million.

* The tank in the basement will have a recess with a couch in it so Gil can “relax and look up at the fish.”

* The work is scheduled to be finished in August.

No word on whether the pool is big enough to host a Fred Smoot-sponsored cruise, but it’s gotta be pretty close.

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