Published by Mike Trudell on June 23, 2011 4:22 pm in Off-Season and Ron Artest.
What, exactly, does the title of this post mean, you wonder?
Well … that’s going to be Ron Artest’s name.
A former employee of Artest’s informed the Lakers on Thursday evening, just before the 2011 NBA Draft, that the veteran filed paperwork in Los Angeles to change his name to “Metta World Peace.”
Artest’s new first name, “Metta,” is Buddhist for “loving kindness,” pretty consistent with “World Peace.”
We’ll try and figure out whether or not the NBA will allow Artest to change his name on his jersey, but we do know that the Lakers do not have any say in the matter.
For Lakers.com, we’ve yet to decide whether or not to refer to Artest by just “Metta,” “Metta World Peace,” “Peace” or “MWP.” Feel free to offer your preferences on Twitter.
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Win more rings in LA... and call yourself anything you could ever fucking want... but make fucking sure you win more fucking rings, MetWorlPea...
"Afraid that the people might ask for a little more than the shit they get..."
aceshigh wrote:Remember when World Peace beat up some fans at The Palace?
I'm thinking you have him confused with another basketball player World B. Free.
Just think how an interview would go with those two and that idiot from the XFL that went by the name He Hate Me.
It would probably be a lot like that scene from Airplane with the brothers talking jive.
aceshigh wrote:Remember when World Peace beat up some fans at The Palace?
I'm thinking you have him confused with another basketball player World B. Free.
Just think how an interview would go with those two and that idiot from the XFL that went by the name He Hate Me.
It would probably be a lot like that scene from Airplane with the brothers talking jive.
