Arenas denies hosting the games at his Los Angeles mansion after he and five others were arrested on Wednesday.

Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday along with five other people, including a suspected member of an Israeli organized crime group,

The 43-year-old former hooper and five other people were taken into custody on Wednesday (July 30), cited for participating in an alleged illegal gambling ring hosted in a California mansion where “high-stakes poker games” were played, per the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.