"Jordan Of The Playoffs" - Metta World Peace PRAISES Tyrese Haliburton For NBA Finals DOMINANCE

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

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Metta World Peace opens up about the Malice at the Palace, his Lakers legacy, MVP snub, and Reggie Miller’s lost ring. He also reveals why coaching the Knicks is his dream job, how therapy shaped his career, and what really went down behind the scenes with Kobe, Phil, and the Pacers.

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0:00.0	So let me ask you, the story about you being drafted by the Bulls, if it wasn't for something
0:06.1	else, you would have been drafted by the Knicks. And now you've been wanting the Knicks
0:09.6	coaching jobs since 2019. I've been wanting to be a Knicks since 1996 in high school.
0:15.6	And in 1999, I thought I would be at Nick. I love New York. Even though, you know, I'm a Pacer guy also.
0:22.4	I love the Pacers.
0:23.9	And the Lakers, too.
0:24.9	The Lakers turned my, the Lakers cemented my legacy.
0:29.6	The Sacramento Kings regained my career.
0:33.7	I went to Sacramento after Indiana.
0:35.4	Sacramento, you know, they got my career back. I was done
0:39.0	depressed. Mentally, I was done. So, you know, I had different journeys with everybody. And the
0:45.4	Paces, we just had such great rapport. Like, we was headed in the right direction, you know, so
0:51.0	probably tightest, closest with the Paces and Lakers, probably Pacers and Lakers.
0:56.7	I love Mr. Dolan.
0:57.8	I don't have a relationship with Mr. Dolan, but the Knicks, I'm from New York City.
1:02.0	St. John's.
1:02.8	Right.
1:03.2	So St. John, you know, Queens.
1:05.5	So for sure, but I want to be a Nick.
1:08.5	I was a Nick for one year.
1:14.4	You know, thank you to Mr. Dolan and Grunfield and whoever else was there.
1:15.3	They're not there anymore.
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