Metta World Peace-Knicks Chatter Framed by 'The Dunk of Death'
If Metta World Peace played in France, he’d be known as Metta Monde Paix. But instead, per various local reports, the artist formerly known as Ron Artest may get to close out his NBA career with the team he always wanted to play for. The Knicks.
As Daniel Mogollan, a staff writer with allmediany.com, reminds, this would bring things full circle. Back in 1999, instead of drafting Artest, the Knicks chose French player Frédéric Weis.
The above YouTube footage of Vince Carter‘s celebrated 2000 Summer Olympics posterization of Weis really should have way more than five million views.
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