Lakers Player Profile: Metta World Peace
- Updated: October 20, 2015
Metta World Peace formerly known as Ron Artest is back in a Lakers uniform! MWP for short was brought over after Kobe Bryant won his 4th championship and replaced Trevor Ariza.
Laker fans know all the stories behind MWP. How he went into the locker room after the Lakers had loss to the Boston Celtics and spoke to Bryant about winning a championship, and 2 years later they accomplished just that.
For everything that MWP has done on or off court he is known as a defender. He came up huge in the 2010 NBA Finals in game 7 hitting that big three to seal the deal. Everyone remembers his famous line thanking his psychiatrist for helping him mentally focus better. Or how excited he was that he was on the Wheaties Box. Shout Out to Queensbridge.
But that was 5 years ago as crazy as that sounds. MWP has never been the same since leaving the Lakers, which is a familiar story, cough cough Lamar Odom, Shannon Brown, Sasha Vujacic, I can go for days. He bounced around and ended up overseas wearing some umm unique shoes.
Rumors circulated over the summer that he had been working out at the Lakers practice facility everyday all summer long and that the Lakers were thinking about bringing him back. Ironically I was super opposed to the move just because of the video my teammate sent me below.
Not necessarily the best look for a comeback. As I began to read more about the situation I realized how beneficial MWP could be to this Laker team. Julius Randle has the same body type as MWP and who better to teach him defensively than MWP himself. If giving him a contract benefits Randle’s growth as a pro I can’t complain about having MWP around.
I understand that I’m suppose to be an “expert” on basketball but I have no idea how much playing time MWP will get this season, and I really don’t know if he cares about that. If anything it adds to the Rockets badblood as someone’s elbow found James Harden a few years back.
For what it’s worth MWP is here to develop Randle and that’s all that matters. Even though this summer has not been the big splashes that Laker fans wanted it is at least entertaining.
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