Metta World Peace’s largest remorse from his NBA profession is just not getting an opportunity to play for his hometown group, the Knicks.
Regardless of wishing he may flip again time, he solely spent a brief stint with the Knicks, taking part in simply 29 video games and averaging 4.8 factors throughout the 2013-14 season.
World Peace, a Queens native, had a 19-year NBA profession that included time with the Bulls, Pacers, Kings, Rockets, Lakers, and briefly the Knicks.
He additionally gained notoriety for his involvement in “The Malice within the Palace,” a historic brawl between gamers and followers throughout his time with the Pacers.
“That commerce request, it was simply extra compound frustration,” World Peace stated. “It had nothing to do with the group. At the moment, simply a lot strain for me, not for different folks. However for me, it was a ton of strain.
“The brawl simply occurred. I missed out on an All-Star Recreation, missed out on my second Defensive Participant of the Yr that most likely would have been mine once more.
“I missed out on one other All-NBA group. I couldn’t recover from that. I used to be tremendous unbalanced. After which I’m nonetheless so aggressive. I come again to observe like I by no means left. And I wasn’t actually apologetic at the moment, at that age.
“Inside I used to be apologetic, however I didn’t wish to painting that I used to be apologetic. Not having empathy, that made it worse on me as a result of since I used to be faking not having empathy, it made it really feel like I didn’t have empathy.
“While you don’t have empathy, it’s not a great spot to be in. That’s why later in my profession I grew to become far more susceptible. I performed the powerful man position, I stated ‘Now it’s time to simply play a standard man position.’”
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