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Sunday, 22 December 2013
Metta World Peace suffering from knee problems
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Metta World Peace speaks
Friday, 13 December 2013
Metta World Peace says whatever team he is on is in championship mentality
Jesse D. Garrabrant/ Getty ImagesMetta World Peace says he joined the Knicks to win a championship but admits it was a 'risky goal.'
BOSTON-The world according to Metta World Peace can be amusing, confusing but never boring. And with the Queensbridge product possibly on his way to Toronto, the player formerly known as Ron Artest was as entertaining as ever in what could be his farewell address as a Knick.
"My goal is to win a ring," he said Friday. "Wherever that is, whether it's in New York or whether it's in another city, my goal is just to win a second ring. Actually, the reason I came to New York was because I wanted to try to win a ring in New York. That was the only reason to try to win the ring here. That's my goal. My goal has never changed. It was a risky goal."
Metta, who won a title with Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, signed a free agent contract with the Knicks last July. He's been linked to the Toronto Raptors in a deal that could be completed as early as Sunday.
"Listen, whatever team I'm on is never rebuilding," he said. "When you get Metta World you're officially championship mentality when you get World Peace.
"When you take on the challenge some things are out of your control. That's not something that you worry about. You can't worry about when you go to work and your boss moves your desk. It is what it is. Your desk is moved and he wants you to work on this side. I'm in a similar situation. My desk has been moved from playing to on the bench, but it's okay."
Metta, who did not play in Friday night's 90-86 loss to the Celtics, added that he correctly predicted that wherever he ended up this season would be an "adventure" for him.
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"All the teams that called me last year I wanted something that was going to be an adventure, something different," he said. "China, Knicks and Arena Football. That was it. What else is an adventure? You know what I'm saying?"
SHUMP SOLDIERS ON Iman Shumpert was in the starting lineup despite suffering a bruised knee in Wednesday's win over Chicago. Shumpert has had left knee surgery twice over the past two seasons.
"I'm just sick of all the little nick-knack injuries," he said.
Shumpert played 23 minutes against the Celtics and scored three points on 1-for-8 shooting and had five rebounds.
Knicks return home to face Atlanta tonight, their third meeting this season against the Hawks.
Former Knicks' first-round pick Walter McCarty is an assistant coach on Brad Stevens' staff.
Metta World Peace, Raymond Felton, Iman Shumpert shake off rumors
BOSTON -- Dealing with trade rumors is no big deal at all, according to three Knicks who might not be Knicks for long.
Even if it means possibly being traded to a rebuilding team such as the Raptors, it is not a problem for Metta World Peace, who lately has bounced out of the Knicks' rotation and into the middle of speculation about a trade for Toronto point guard Kyle Lowry.
"Whatever team I'm on is never rebuilding. When you get Metta World, you're officially [in] a championship mentality," World Peace said before Friday night's game against the Celtics at TD Garden.
It was a pertinent subject, what with reports of trade talks surfacing Thursday and with Sunday being the first day teams can deal players signed in the offseason as free agents, as World Peace was.
He says he is keeping in shape, staying ready for anything and seeing it as part of a challenge. Yes, he signed with the Knicks because he wanted to win a ring in New York, his hometown. But a deal could be part of the adventure.
"All the teams that called me last year -- I wanted something different: China, the Knicks and arena football. That was it," he said.
Raymond Felton was at the heart of the Lowry rumor on Thursday, the same day the Knicks announced he will be out two to three weeks with a strained hamstring.
"That trade stuff I don't talk about," he said Friday. "I've been in the league nine years now. That's going to happen. It happens even when you're having a good season. There were trade rumors last year and we had a great year last year. That stuff I don't even discuss. I have nothing to do with it. I don't deal with it. That's why we have general managers and all that."
Iman Shumpert, who played Friday night after suffering a bruised knee Wednesday, said of having his name mentioned: "This is part of being a professional. I've just got to learn to deal with it."
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
Metta World Peace May Change His Name Again This Season (Watch)
During an interview a while back with "ClevverNews," Mr. World Peace said he is planning a name change for this season, but not legally.
"We are going to do a name change, but I can't tell you what it is," World Peace told the interviewer.
He said that he wouldn't go through the process of legally changing his name until he retires. "That's too much work," he said.
So it looks like this season we will still see "World Peace" on the back of his jersey but he may answer to another name.
He first changed his name from Ron Artest to Metta World Peace back in September 2011 because he wanted to "inspire and bring youth together all around the world."
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Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Metta World Peace swears his alleged practice fight with Kenyon Martin was ...
Monday, 2 December 2013
Report: There was a heated argument between Metta World Peace and Kenyon ...
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Metta World Peace Having Little Impact on Struggling New York Knicks
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Metta World Peace's Brother Says MWP Isn't Really Hurt
Monday, 18 November 2013
Metta World Peace finds Zen
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Metta World Peace thinks delay
'That is NOT how we promote Excel, Referee Sean Corbin.' (Elsa/Getty Images)
The NBA's decision to make enforcing delay-of-game violations after made baskets a point of emphasis for officials drew the ire of some fans who felt that blowing a whistle every time a player moving from offense to defense touched a ball that had just gone through the hoop would result in choppy, flowless play marked by stutter-started possessions and, once a team had burned through its initial warning, more technical fouls and trips to the free-throw line for the opposition. (This did happen during several preseason games, making already difficult-to-sit-through exhibition affairs even tougher to watch at times.)
Two weeks into the season, players are showing signs of adjusting to the "look, don't touch" imperative, but that doesn't mean they like it. New York Knicks forward Metta World Peace, naturally, offered Scott Cacciola of the New York Times a characteristically quotable take on the matter:
World Peace had a hand, quite literally, in three delay-of-game calls [last week in a game against the Bobcats], including once when he tapped the ball to his teammate Raymond Felton (who threw it to an official, which was a no-no) and later when he tossed the ball over his head like a bouquet of flowers. While the Knicks sailed to an easy win, World Peace was annoyed.
"It's their league," said World Peace, who clearly had no idea what he had done wrong. "It's a hard adjustment for these guys making the rules because a lot of them have never played basketball. It's like me trying to make rules for Microsoft or something."
(An aside: "who clearly had no idea what he had done wrong" is about as perfect a description as possible of World Peace's general method of walking through the world, isn't it? Think back to the question Ron-Ron asked former Indiana Pacers teammate Stephen Jackson in the locker room after the Malice in the Palace brawl: "Jack, you think we going to get in trouble?" Much has changed for Metta over the years, but apparently not everything.)
Now, back to the matter at hand: Man, would I love to see Metta World Peace make rules for Microsoft. Maybe he could get some New York rappers of the '90s to replace Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at the XBox One launch party. Or get every employee in Redmond, Wash., wearing D-Bands.
"Hey, guys, just a quick head's up: We're going to start investing heavily in cell phone watch technology, despite that not being our thing. Also, now every Wednesday night is Employee Movie Night, where we watch movies I picked out. Tonight's triple feature: 'All Wifed Up', 'The Eleventh Victim' and 'Heavyweights.'" And so on.
We don't know exactly who recommended enhanced enforcement of the made-basket delay-of-game rule; it reportedly came out of a meeting of the league's general managers back in May, and while many GMs did play the game, a number also did not, giving Metta a puncher's chance of being right here. That said, it's worth remembering that the rule, y'know, did already exist, and that the intent of the emphasis - preventing teams getting back on defense from making it harder on the opposition to inbound the ball quickly and try to push it up the floor - is the kind of thing that seems much more interested in producing fun basketball than, say, cracking down on players' pre-game rituals.
It's an actual basketball thing, and it seems to be working, or at least helping - as Grantland's Zach Lowe noted Tuesday, more NBA teams are hitting the gas and playing at warp speeds, with six averaging more than 100 possessions per game (which nobody did last season) and 13 averaging more than top 2012-13 burners the Houston Rockets did. Removing impediments to teams getting up and down has helped create surprisingly fun and competitive surprises like the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns, and while the number of delay-of-game whistles has skyrocketed in the early going - 83 delay-of-game violations as of last Sunday, compared to two at the same juncture last season, according to Cacciola - it hasn't (to my eye, at least) been nearly as egregious a wrench in the game's flow as we might have feared.
As players get more accustomed to letting the ball go - and multiple teams are incorporating drills to that effect to help pound it into their heads - the number of whistles will go down, and then we'll just have the pace. (Or, alternately, the league will stop caring, as it so often does about similar point-of-emphasis endeavors, and then everything will go back to normal.) Whether it was suggested by someone who's played a ton at the highest level or has just watched enough ball to know that players have been getting away with those transition-defense-aiding post-make touches for years, it seems like a fairly decent bit of enforcement ... which, now that I think about it, gives me renewed hope for the policy shifts Metta might make if given a shot at Microsoft. Yo, Steve Ballmer - if you're still serious about getting involved in the NBA, this seems like a pretty awesome place to start.
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Metta World Peace thinks delay
The NBA's decision to make enforcing delay-of-game violations after made baskets a point of emphasis for officials drew the ire of some fans who felt that blowing a whistle every time a player moving from offense to defense touched a ball that had just gone through the hoop would result in choppy, flowless play marked by stutter-started possessions and, once a team had burned through its initial warning, more technical fouls and trips to the free-throw line for the opposition. (This did happen during several preseason games, making already difficult-to-sit-through exhibition affairs even tougher to watch at times.)
Two weeks into the season, players are showing signs of adjusting to the "look, don't touch" imperative, but that doesn't mean they like it. New York Knicks forward Metta World Peace, naturally, offered Scott Cacciola of the New York Times a characteristically quotable take on the matter:
World Peace had a hand, quite literally, in three delay-of-game calls [last week in a game against the Bobcats], including once when he tapped the ball to his teammate Raymond Felton (who threw it to an official, which was a no-no) and later when he tossed the ball over his head like a bouquet of flowers. While the Knicks sailed to an easy win, World Peace was annoyed.
"It's their league," said World Peace, who clearly had no idea what he had done wrong. "It's a hard adjustment for these guys making the rules because a lot of them have never played basketball. It's like me trying to make rules for Microsoft or something."
(An aside: "who clearly had no idea what he had done wrong" is about as perfect a description as possible of World Peace's general method of walking through the world, isn't it? Think back to the question Ron-Ron asked former Indiana Pacers teammate Stephen Jackson in the locker room after the Malice in the Palace brawl: "Jack, you think we going to get in trouble?" Much has changed for Metta over the years, but apparently not everything.)
Now, back to the matter at hand: Man, would I love to see Metta World Peace make rules for Microsoft. Maybe he could get some New York rappers of the '90s to replace Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at the XBox One launch party. Or get every employee in Redmond, Wash., wearing D-Bands.
"Hey, guys, just a quick head's up: We're going to start investing heavily in cell phone watch technology, despite that not being our thing. Also, now every Wednesday night is Employee Movie Night, where we watch movies I picked out. Tonight's triple feature: 'All Wifed Up', 'The Eleventh Victim' and 'Heavyweights.'" And so on.
We don't know exactly who recommended enhanced enforcement of the made-basket delay-of-game rule; it reportedly came out of a meeting of the league's general managers back in May, and while many GMs did play the game, a number also did not, giving Metta a puncher's chance of being right here. That said, it's worth remembering that the rule, y'know, did already exist, and that the intent of the emphasis - preventing teams getting back on defense from making it harder on the opposition to inbound the ball quickly and try to push it up the floor - is the kind of thing that seems much more interested in producing fun basketball than, say, cracking down on players' pre-game rituals.
It's an actual basketball thing, and it seems to be working, or at least helping - as Grantland's Zach Lowe noted Tuesday, more NBA teams are hitting the gas and playing at warp speeds, with six averaging more than 100 possessions per game (which nobody did last season) and 13 averaging more than top 2012-13 burners the Houston Rockets did. Removing impediments to teams getting up and down has helped create surprisingly fun and competitive surprises like the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns, and while the number of delay-of-game whistles has skyrocketed in the early going - 83 delay-of-game violations as of last Sunday, compared to two at the same juncture last season, according to Cacciola - it hasn't (to my eye, at least) been nearly as egregious a wrench in the game's flow as we might have feared.
As players get more accustomed to letting the ball go - and multiple teams are incorporating drills to that effect to help pound it into their heads - the number of whistles will go down, and then we'll just have the pace. (Or, alternately, the league will stop caring, as it so often does about similar point-of-emphasis endeavors, and then everything will go back to normal.) Whether it was suggested by someone who's played a ton at the highest level or has just watched enough ball to know that players have been getting away with those transition-defense-aiding post-make touches for years, it seems like a fairly decent bit of enforcement ... which, now that I think about it, gives me renewed hope for the policy shifts Metta might make if given a shot at Microsoft. Yo, Steve Ballmer - if you're still serious about getting involved in the NBA, this seems like a pretty awesome place to start.
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Metta World Peace, Daniel Artest have gone down different hoops paths
On the Queensbridge basketball courts as youngsters, the Artest boys were known by their peers as the Range Rover and the Land Rover.
Few people beat them -- or messed with them.
Ron Artest was the Range Rover because he was the more slender of the two, the guy athletic enough to defend any position and streak his way through a double team to the hoop.
Brother Daniel, born on the same day as Ron three years later, was the Land Rover because he was shorter but stronger, especially under the basket. Rebounding was a passion.
The young duo proved to be nearly unstoppable in New York City-area pickup games.
"When we were on the court together, we caused a lot of havoc,'' said Ron, the 6-7, 260-pound Knicks forward now known as Metta World Peace after legally changing his name in 2011.
When World Peace's career began taking off, beginning at St. John's in the late 1990s, he assumed the same would happen to his younger brother because he said Daniel was just as talented. He said he dreamed of the day when they would team up again.
Nearly two decades later, he's still waiting for that to happen.
Making a strong impression
Daniel would have loved to make it to the NBA just like his brother, of course, but he insists he's at peace with his path, which has taken him on his own hoops odyssey.
"For every Ron Artest, there's a Daniel Artest,'' Daniel said.
It was a recent Friday afternoon and Daniel, who will turn 31 next week, was sitting on a bench in the Queensbridge Housing Projects, excited to be back home for only the second time since 2005.
The Queensbridge Housing Projects, located in the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City, is commonly referred to as the nation's largest public housing project. Brick buildings are separated by playgrounds, winding pavement paths and patches of grass, with a basketball court centrally located.
The fifth of nine children, Daniel said the Artests grew up in adjoining corner apartments, with 17 people residing in their five bedrooms at times. But Daniel said he didn't feel all that cramped. Heck, he and Ron were too busy playing basketball to notice the crowd.
Outside Queensbridge, Daniel first made waves as a basketball player when Ron arrived at St. John's on a basketball scholarship in 1997. Then 14, Daniel would accompany his brother to St. John's and pass the time scrimmaging against college kids, even some of the varsity players.
"Remember Anthony Glover from St. John's?'' asked their father, Ron Artest Sr., referring to the 6-5, 231-pound big man who answers to the nickname "The Corrections Officer'' on New York City courts.
"Daniel used to move him around like he wasn't even there,'' the father said. "This kid was like 14 years old and I'm saying to myself, 'This is unbelievable the way he moved him out of the way.' I thought, listen, he's going to make it.''
But there was a problem. Daniel didn't like going to high school, and more often than not, he didn't. When he did attend classes, he admittedly didn't take it all that seriously. He said he attended four schools in four years, one of them twice, and never played a minute of basketball at any of them.
"We didn't have the household to push him in education,'' said World Peace, now a Knick. "We went to school, but it wasn't something that we had to do after a certain point in our life. So he took advantage of those temptations and it hurt him because if he just had a diploma, he would have gone to college.''
By the time Daniel was 18, he watched as players he thought he was better than got Division I scholarships. That set off a series of stops and starts at junior colleges across the nation in a somewhat frenzied attempt to land a Division I scholarship.
Moving around
In the span of two years, Daniel landed at five different junior colleges -- and played at only two of them. He said he left the colleges because of problems with the coaches, the school, academics or just wanting a different place. But when he did make it onto the court, his pure talent took over.
A year and a half after his last high school stop, he passed his General Educational Development tests and landed at the University of Southern Nevada. He qualified academically for the spring semester and was eligible for the second half of the 2002-03 season. Playing for George Tarkanian, Jerry's son, he said he averaged 15.0 points and 8.3 rebounds in 12 games.
"He was definitely a Division I player,'' Tarkanian said. "Just a big, strong guy who played on the perimeter, and people had such a hard time guarding him. He was just so much stronger than them.''
It wasn't long before he was noticed. Daniel's 12-game stint at Southern Nevada was good enough to earn him a scholarship offer a few months later from Division I Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, then coached by Billy Tubbs.
"I had just taken over and we were recruiting anybody that could play because we pretty much had to replace a whole team,'' Tubbs said. "We were hitting junior colleges pretty heavy that year.''
At 6-4 and about 265 pounds, Daniel was unique in that he was physical enough to play down low but athletic enough to play outside. The coaches at Lamar saw Daniel as a potential mismatch for opponents and thought he could thrive in the Southland Conference.
But Daniel balked. He described his decision to walk away from Lamar as a mixture of cold feet and a big head, thinking that perhaps offers from bigger schools were on their way. It's the only decision he regrets.
"I didn't have the right guidance at the time,'' Daniel said. "Ron was doing his thing. Everybody was focusing on Ron. I made all these decisions by myself. I never had help to choose a school. Everything I did by myself in my basketball career, all on my own.''
Daniel's father added, "Maybe I should have been more on him, but I was just focused on getting him through life . . . Trying to keep him away from alcohol, drugs.''
After Daniel passed on Lamar, the bigger offers didn't come. He played at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, N.Y., the next season in what would be his final collegiate games.
Weight becomes a problem
"He's just as good as me,'' World Peace said the other day after a Knicks practice, the sweat dripping down his face after he stayed late to work on his jumper. "He was a better rebounder and stronger, a much better rebounder than I was . . . I've always said Daniel should have been a pro a long time ago.''
After failing to land that coveted Division I scholarship, Daniel fell out of game shape and said his weight ballooned well into the 300s. World Peace said he constantly has tried to motivate him to get in shape during the last decade.
"In shape for my brother is about 270,'' World Peace said. "There's not many people who are 6-4, 270 who can move like him, windmill dunk, shoot threes and rebound. All he has to do is get to 270.''
Daniel often has tried over the years, to no avail. For example, with an eye on the NBA, Daniel lived with World Peace in Sacramento in 2007 and worked with one of the Kings' assistant coaches each morning that season to get in shape. He played on the Kings' summer-league team, too. But it didn't lead to an NBA job, and the issue of his playing shape lingered.
Daniel has spent the years since then bouncing around the semipro level, with stops in cities such as Rockford, Ill., Rockville, Md. and Louisville, Ky. He now lives in Avon, Ind., works in the shipping department at Amazon.com and plans to play a second season this year with the semipro Indiana Diesels of the Premier Basketball League.
"Reunited'' would feel so good
World Peace refuses to let go of his dream of playing alongside Daniel one day.
He initially envisioned it happening in high school or college, but he said Daniel getting left back one year negated that, and World Peace went pro after his second year at St. John's.
Then World Peace thought they could play on the same NBA team after Daniel's summer-league experience with the Kings, but that didn't work out.
The last time World Peace tried to make it happen was during the NBA lockout two years ago, when he said he wanted his younger brother to go overseas with him. But he said Daniel wasn't in shape.
Now World Peace has a new plan.
Speaking after a recent Knicks practice, he said he's thinking he can play two or three more years in the NBA, maybe even more. But after he's done with the NBA, he wants to make one more run at reuniting the Range Rover and the Land Rover on the court.
This time World Peace sees it happening overseas, maybe China.
Even if it's only for one game, World Peace wants to make it happen. He wants to wear the same uniform as his brother, as he always envisioned as a kid.
"One time, I want to play with him," World Peace said. "When I'm done, hopefully he's still playing, and let's go play overseas one time together, for a week, month or something like that.''
When that was relayed to Daniel, he said he cried. He knows this is his last chance to step on the court with his brother in a pro setting, and he says he's taking it seriously.
Through running, working out with P90X and -- of course -- playing lots of basketball, he says his weight is down to 285 pounds. And counting.
"I'm going to make that happen,'' he said. "Ron has done so much for me over the years, the least I can do is get into the best shape of my life so we can finally play together.''
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Thursday, 31 October 2013
Knicks' Metta World Peace rode subway to play in first game
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Interview: Metta World Peace, on Returning to New York City
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Metta World Peace Goes Back to the Future with 2013
Friday, 25 October 2013
Young NBA fan horrified after Metta World Peace's crotch falls on his face (GIF)
Metta World Peace emerges as a Knick leader
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Sunday, 13 October 2013
Metta World Peace sees right stuff in Carmelo Anthony for a championship
Metta World Peace won a championship playing with Kobe Bryant, and he says Carmelo Anthony has something in him that reminds him of the Lakers superstar.
It's not just the ability to take over a game offensively. World Peace also likened the "it factor'' he sees in Anthony to former teammates Reggie Miller, Yao Ming, Pau Gasol and Derek Fisher, and said it's a main ingredient in winning a title.
"You need those players like him," World Peace said. "When you're trying to compete for a championship, you need those guys. He's like one of those guys, one of those guys that I played with -- when I played with Reggie, when I played with Yao, when I played with Kobe and Pau and Fisher. He reminds me of one of those guys in his own way."
World Peace has talked about Anthony's heart and said he has "a killer instinct." But when asked how Anthony reminds him of the former teammates he named -- many of whom played different roles than Anthony and Bryant -- World Peace put it simply.
"His consistency of being good," he said.
Anthony, World Peace, Raymond Felton, Tyson Chandler and Beno Udrih were held out of Saturday's 30-point preseason loss to the Celtics, after which Mike Woodson fumed because of how little the Knicks competed. He gave them Sunday off, their first break since camp opened Oct. 1.
World Peace has played against Anthony numerous times in his career but said he didn't get to know him and what type of player he is until after he started scrimmaging and playing with him.
"To see Melo from when we had open runs, until training camp, to the first two games, it's pretty amazing," World Peace said. "I'm very excited.
"Nobody shoots 100 percent for a season. His field-goal percentage, whatever it is, is really good. He was the leading scorer in the league last year. I don't watch other guys play a lot. All I can do is read and see at the end of the season, Melo's the leading scorer. But I don't know he did it. To see him get 20 in the first half , it's exciting for me. I hold a lot inside when I'm playing. But I'm studying everybody, watching. It's exciting."
Anthony has proved he's one of the NBA's best scorers and closers. But he also seems to be trying to become more of a leader this season.
Observers saw signs of leadership from Anthony last season, but Jason Kidd and Rasheed Wallace were more vocal. Both retired after the season, putting more emphasis on Anthony to talk more, which he's doing.
He's been seen in practice and preseason games encouraging and advising rookie Tim Hardaway Jr. New Knicks president and general manager Steve Mills pointed out how Anthony was helping Iman Shumpert during a recent practice.
Anthony said he's just doing his job.
"It's nothing that I'm overemphasizing," he said. "It's just coming to work every day, doing my job, giving the guys advice. That's it. I'm here for them if they need to talk. If I see something, I'll point it out. That's my job.''
"It's not so much about being vocal. Last year, I was vocal in my own way. We had guys that was very vocal out loud and we had guys that was vocal behind closed doors. For me, it's just letting everybody know what the deal is. If I see something that's wrong, we try to correct it as a unit. If I see something that's right, I give them a pat on the back and we keep moving. I'm just doing my job. If that's me being a leader, that's me being a leader."
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