Artest why world peace

Unfortunately, after almost 10 years of World Peace, Artest has changed his name once again. It was embarrassing. So I did think about changing my name back, but then I got used, people got used it. So, I guess that you can say that World Peace is over. With 45 seconds left and the game in hand for the Pacers, World Peace had committed a hard foul on Pistons strong man Ben Wallace, who reacted by pushing World Peace and sending him to that aforementioned spot to cool down.

Then, it happened -- a blue cup thrown by Pistons fan John Green pegged World Peace, who charged into the stands and set off a vicious melee between players and fans. It was a fit of anger that's now synonymous with World Peace's career and perhaps the perception of his personal well-being. But World Peace avowed it was less indicative of his mental health than it was retaliatory. The true narrative was more nuanced.

World Peace, who retired in after 17 years in the NBA, already had been in therapy for some time, attempting to channel the intensity that made him the NBA's premier defender. But still, the consequences from that night sent him into a depression, part of a longtime struggle with personal peace. Six years later, as he celebrated the championship with the Los Angeles Lakers, World Peace thanked his psychologist.

On growing up in New York City's Queensbridge housing project, where he experienced trauma that left an indelible mark:. Different things happen in the streets that you'd be traumatized from. Things happening in the household; a brother goes away for 10 years; drug trafficking. I'm very familiar with the gun game.

It just is a pile on. You got babies as a [teenager], [like] myself. All that stuff starts to add up. It's always a conflict of interests. You're in a professional world, but you're not professional.

I was conflicted being in a corporate environment. It was something that I wasn't comfortable with at that age. I would drive back 13 hours on the weekend -- go right back to my 'hood and just relax for a little bit -- and drive back to Chicago [where he was drafted by the Bulls in ] every time we had a day off. On looking up to Dennis Rodman, whom he recognized as struggling with mental health before many others did:.

Dennis Rodman was the first one to come out [and publicly say he was managing his mental health] -- he was on Oprah [in ] -- he talked about his family.

When I saw that, I'm like, "Oh, wow. I didn't know that about Dennis Rodman. Like, "Oh, I feel you, I understand what you're going through. Nobody wrote stories on, "Hey, Dennis Rodman was going through something. That's why I changed my number to 91 [Rodman's number]. On prescient comments from one of his two college head coaches at St. I played extremely hard but, sometimes, it can go over the top, and I've been like that since high school, probably middle school.

If you have any anxiety then that's not a good mix, right? I know my old coach, Fran Fraschilla [the current ESPN college basketball analyst who coached him as a freshman], told me my intensity was a gift and a curse, but I never really understood it until later. On the trip, Metta and I talked a lot. Metta was the same player in college as he was in the NBA: fiery and passionate.

I asked him about an incident that stayed in my memory. Metta promptly lost it. He knocked over a TV camera and had to be restrained by players and security.

At the time he reminded me of the Incredible Hulk, unable to control his fury. In Africa, as he recalled his outburst at The Garden, Metta said those types of incidents happened throughout his life and he was working on it. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Find out more. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos. All rights reserved.

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