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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 3:31 pm Post subject: Ron Artest has a book coming out: Here are some stories |
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https://nba.nbcsports.com/2018/05/17/the-time-metta-world-peace-cracked-michael-jordans-ribs/
| Quote: | The time Metta World Peace cracked Michael Jordan’s ribs
Metta World Peace has a lot of stories. Great stories.
Like how he wanted to be a math teacher growing up in Queensbridge.
“I loved the solutions, I loved just numbers, and putting things together,” World Peace said.
He’s got stories from college — like the time he was offered $35,000 to throw a game. He’s got stories from his NBA life. He’s got stories about what it was like when he came out talking about mental illness publicly. He’s got stories from stints on “Big Brother” and “Dancing with the Stars.” He tells a lot of them in his new book that hit the shelves this week,No Malice: My Life in Basketball or: How a Kid from Queensbridge Survived the Streets, the Brawls, and Himself to Become an NBA Champion
And then there was the time he cracked Michael Jordan’s ribs in a game.
“I mean, that was a mistake,” World Peace admitted to NBC Sports. “I didn’t even know I did it until the next day. Then Michael Jordan called and said ‘don’t worry about it, everything’s going to be okay,’ because I was a little bit shaken. That was my favorite player. And I didn’t want that kind of media attention around me at the time.”
It happened in a summer pickup game in 2001, as World Peace tells it. At the time the then Ron Artest was playing for the Chicago Bulls, and Jordan was gearing up for his comeback with the Wizards. This was an early summer pick-up game, the kind of thing that happens between elite players as they try to hone their skills in the offseason. Even LeBron dropped in on these games — while he was still in high school.
“Me and Michael Jordan was playing hard, it was summertime ball, and LeBron (James) was actually there, he was 15-or-16 years old [Ed. note: He was 16] — yea, he was keeping up, he was one of the best players there at that age — it was those days, it was just rough, rough basketball. But I think one of the reasons Michael Jordan came back and was playing so well was I was guarding him every single day, and I wasn’t playing around, you know? Maybe I helped him out a little bit…
“After I break his ribs he comes down, he’s holding his ribs a little bit, then he hits the game-winner on me. Then he walks off the floor, then he’s out for a couple of months.”
And the legend of Michael Jordan grows a little bit more.
Metta World Peace is now just trying to pass along the lessons he learned along his path. That’s part of what the new book is about. He’s also coaching, both as a player development guy with the South Bay Lakers — the Lakers G-League team — and with some youth teams. He wants others to get the chances he had.
“I feel like I have a real opportunity to come out the other side, 360 degrees plus, and show people that no matter what you go through, you keep fighting, and you get through it,” World Peace said. “It’s not all about becoming an NBA player, sometimes it’s about becoming your best self and making the biggest impact you can make…
“I really enjoy that I can say ‘I went through this’ and give it back. But I don’t want to be like ‘be like me,’ I’m more like ‘be like yourself.’”
World Peace was always himself. It’s what makes the book and his stories a good read. |
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KindCrippler2000
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I remember when he said he was working on a sci-fi erotica novel.  |
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J.C. Smith
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| That should be entertaining. |
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| Quote: | | He’s got stories from college — like the time he was offered $35,000 to throw a game. |
I know this was most likely because the dude was going to make alot more through gambling but imagine having the type of money that allows you to hand off 35k to change the outcome of a basketball game. |
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | He’s got stories from college — like the time he was offered $35,000 to throw a game. |
personally not a fan of this kind of stuff unless your going to identify who, when and where.....just throwing it out there simply puts shade on all of college basketball and serves not purpose except garner book sales and attention. |
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Yay Metta!
As usual. |
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 2:54 am Post subject: |
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No Malice
Enjoy!
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| KindCrippler2000 wrote: | | I remember when he said he was working on a sci-fi erotica novel. |
This must be the Metta's Bedtime Stories 
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| Love the man. No homo. Ok maybe just a little |
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| adkindo wrote: | | Quote: | | He’s got stories from college — like the time he was offered $35,000 to throw a game. |
personally not a fan of this kind of stuff unless your going to identify who, when and where.....just throwing it out there simply puts shade on all of college basketball and serves not purpose except garner book sales and attention. |
Shade needs to be put on college basketball. The entire one and done rule is a joke and only put in to service these colleges. |
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| kobeandgary wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | Quote: | | He’s got stories from college — like the time he was offered $35,000 to throw a game. |
personally not a fan of this kind of stuff unless your going to identify who, when and where.....just throwing it out there simply puts shade on all of college basketball and serves not purpose except garner book sales and attention. |
Shade needs to be put on college basketball. The entire one and done rule is a joke and only put in to service these colleges. |
I don't watch college games. As an NBA fan, I just wanted to see an improvement in the quality of the NBA product. So it wasn't just about colleges.
And college students are easily accessible. You can't stop bookies/gamblers from making these kinds of proposals. It's going to happen whether students get paid or not. As long as people have money riding on their performance, there will be corruption. |
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| kobeandgary wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | Quote: | | He’s got stories from college — like the time he was offered $35,000 to throw a game. |
personally not a fan of this kind of stuff unless your going to identify who, when and where.....just throwing it out there simply puts shade on all of college basketball and serves not purpose except garner book sales and attention. |
Shade needs to be put on college basketball. The entire one and done rule is a joke and only put in to service these colleges. |
if you have an issue with the one and done rule, then you have an issue with the NBA and NBA Players association.....it was not put in place to service colleges, but the protect jobs for older NBA players. |
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| kobeandgary wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | Quote: | | He’s got stories from college — like the time he was offered $35,000 to throw a game. |
personally not a fan of this kind of stuff unless your going to identify who, when and where.....just throwing it out there simply puts shade on all of college basketball and serves not purpose except garner book sales and attention. |
Shade needs to be put on college basketball. The entire one and done rule is a joke and only put in to service these colleges. |
I feel like the rule was also to protect the NBA brand and their corporate sponsors. The public feels like players are too immature and "thuggish", so they instituted this rule because just going away from home to college for one year really helps you grow and mature. I think it's a good rule, but of course there's the other side of the argument where people will argue that it's too restrictive and that there's also a racial element.
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I cant believe he kept the name change after all these years.
The idea sounds like something you think of when you're drunk with your buddies and then wonder what the hell you were thinking the next day when you're sober. |
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| Laker4andmore wrote: | I cant believe he kept the name change after all these years.
The idea sounds like something you think of when you're drunk with your buddies and then wonder what the hell you were thinking the next day when you're sober. |
Pretty cool for someone of his size and stature to bring awareness to the word Metta
Another word very similar is Maitri.. Conscious Ron is a name we can call him
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett%C4%81#Maitr%C4%AB_and_Mett%C4%81
Similarly, the term appears in hymn 55 of Book 19 of the Atharvaveda,[42] and various Upanishads.[43] A major early Upanishad of Hinduism, named Maitri Upanishad, discusses universal kindness and amity. The Maitri Upanishad, states Martin Wiltshire, provides the philosophical underpinning, by asserting, "what a man thinks, that he becomes, this is the eternal mystery". This idea, adds Wiltshire, reflects the assumption in the ancient thought that man influences his own environment and situation, causality is equitable, and "good volitional acts conduce pleasant situations, while bad volitional acts conduce unpleasant situations".[44] The Maitri Upanishad teaches, states Juan Mascaró, that peace begins in one's own mind, in one's longing for truth, in looking within, and that "a quietness of mind overcomes good and evil works, and in quietness the soul is one: then one feels the joy of eternity."[45] |
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| adkindo wrote: | | kobeandgary wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | Quote: | | He’s got stories from college — like the time he was offered $35,000 to throw a game. |
personally not a fan of this kind of stuff unless your going to identify who, when and where.....just throwing it out there simply puts shade on all of college basketball and serves not purpose except garner book sales and attention. |
Shade needs to be put on college basketball. The entire one and done rule is a joke and only put in to service these colleges. |
if you have an issue with the one and done rule, then you have an issue with the NBA and NBA Players association.....it was not put in place to service colleges, but the protect jobs for older NBA players. |
Wasn't it a concession from the Players union during CBA negotiations? If the Players union wanted to protect jobs for older players, they could have fought for staying in school for 4 years and the NBA would have no problem w/ that. The NBA wants more time to evaluate players. They want to evaluate them for free at the NCAA level. The Players union wants them to come into the league as soon as possible so they can earn as much as possible during their lifetime. |
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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After "Little Shaq", Shaq is disqualified from erotica genre.
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| Shaber wrote: |
After "Little Shaq", Shaq is disqualified from erotica genre. |
Thank you! I had no idea he wrote more books or had 6 kids .. 6?
Nice of him to share time with kids this way
I know it's off topic but long ago he had charity events named
Shaqsgiving
Shaqaclaus
Shaqs Paq
And others
One year he brought a semi filled with snow and one with Xboxes to disadvantaged kids in la for Christmas |
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| Where is the story where he cornered Kobe in the shower and told him he'd play with him? |
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| methdxman wrote: | | Where is the story where he cornered Kobe in the shower and told him he'd play with him? |
Or he had to go work at Best Buy during the offseason because he blew through all his rookie contract money and was completely broke. |
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| LakerMania wrote: | | methdxman wrote: | | Where is the story where he cornered Kobe in the shower and told him he'd play with him? |
Or he had to go work at Best Buy during the offseason because he blew through all his rookie contract money and was completely broke. |
Why? Here of course.
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