it's all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special guest is metta world peace the fifty year n.p.a. veteran formally known as ron are test twenty ten n.b.a. champion twenty eleven recipient of the jay wally kennedy citizenship award as the n.b.a.'s highest citizenship and community service honor he hosts his own weekly radio show met his world on power one zero six he founded the nonprofit xcel university in two thousand and seven to help at risk youth further their education and is a strong advocate for mental health in that regard when he appeared on larry king live back in two thousand and ten we crashed his website raffling off the championship bring the roughly raised one hundred twenty thousand dollars that day appearance had one point seven million page views he ever regret giving the ring

away no i don't i mean it's something you work for you all the career but you know i was like wow i can do something bigger and just watch it every day you know and i we raffled off and it just felt so good while so many people were to bring it brought a seven hundred thousand dollars it was great that you delivered one to my house you haven't yet got to say you have had a major yet absolutely you deserve there it is you helped out a lot you know what the what the raffle the dow that was a great on is right down on the piano. what does a better world peace mean the words you choose that name it means. it's like the butterfly you know you see the caterpillar the butterfly blossoms and i'm still blossom and i'm still. in the context of you know my neighborhood some people still see how i grew up and metta world peace also but then you also see somebody who's trying to evolve you know still making some of the same mistakes i made way back when not as many you know but at the same time. i just wanted to have

a new chapter in my life you played new york if you didn't have a good time with the next egypt well i had a great zombie year in front of a new york fans about him play alive so you know as a competitive player and we didn't make the playoffs so at that time i was just like i was no civil with. the fact that i wasn't playing we were losing games and i just wasn't i didn't play in the digital to mike woodson the s a y n n what do you do as a player when i put you in i just accepted like i'm not playing i don't like to question my coach so obviously i want to play i try to do what i can do in practice i push my teammates but i like to go to my coach and say hey you know i want to play more you're going to why you didn't play i did add a lot of reasons and i think some reason why them play but at the same time i just don't want to get in a way of a coach like i believe let

a coach coach ok now you're free agent your fifteen year veteran yes the want to play absolutely ok you're free to sign with anyone yeah you got phil jackson g.m. in new york president of the team derek fisher is now with the knicks he's the coach want to go back. i don't know yet i don't know at think as last year people think i'm still hurt. which is not heard not now got her a year ago year and a half ago just like anybody else of anybody else without her here and have to go on a hill two years i'm healthy and then people think i can't play anymore so my agent he's a lot of questions where he's going to these other teams so i tell him don't worry about it you know we'll go somewhere we'll play a maze and then the teams just lose out will you talk to phil and mr fisher well this is a thing where we talked we let teams know we're ready to play and now it's up to

the these teams to say ok you know we want met on it seem the you want medal you don't and you know we have our go on be amazing is there a place you'd prefer to go yeah it is but i guess mean trouble sometimes a place to happen for to go you know and you think you have a shot to go to that place then they turn around and you don't call and then you lose out on all the other team but with phil and derek having been with them you could call them could you directly you can call them i mean maybe you never know sometimes or they're busy right now trying to turn around a franchise in new york city how do you think you'll do they'll do i think they don't do amazing because the system is perfect you know for people who want to play basketball players who want to win and i just got a coach and also the girls' basketball team and i will say as i school yeah coaches like that i'm not retired in this coaching people think that coach i'm retired i'm not retired just coaching you like coaching love. would you like to coach

professional absolutely you would take an assistant job and work up well right now i'm coaching the girls varsity and i'm coaching boys a youth team sixteen and under i'm coaching men's and i'm and i'm training kids also training college players so it is across the spectrum so it doesn't matter i don't matter where i coach at i just want to coach do you ever regret leaving st john's after only one year i do i do regret it shares they did because what happened was when i went to st john's i was major in architecture i always wanted to build community centers and then in turn over my projects i have practice at six am and then i had to turn my project in the morning so i was tired i wasn't able to practice i had to drop that measure that i made in our same problem had to drop that measure and i majored in math and i wish i could do it over because i would have made it like you know economics and you know business things that i've learned

you know later on in my career you recently said that this should be one silenced a week yes sports all sports where you where you mean i think people criticize too much talk too much and every day been baseball season football season basketball season some i didn't criticize my smile is being talked about it should be a death silence but nobody says anything let the players hit the baseball anyone any energy today like tomar no baseball player would speak no no media was speak for the media. they speak there to get there no i haven't a sports talk radio for one day no criticize and got to talk about love you known as kind of quirky right you know that you are your images where you pay to do you care what people say about you. i care about the image that i put out there and sometimes as i transform i do things i say oh wow i should have never done acid and said that sometimes i say things because i feel it needs to be said. other people

will say why did you say those things you ever regret it some things i do regret some things i do regret some things i don't but it's not society's not able to accept some of the things that i say your favorite player was dennis rodman the great defensive who is one of the i know down in the world's weird guy he is very weird is he still your favorite he's my favorite why he's a my favorite as i was a kid i always wanted to play like him because of the fence because his defense has hustle rebounding rebounding not necessarily rebound i like his hustle and i was never rebound i was more of a stills guy but i just think he the way play the game is so much passion and when you look when you look at his back story no father you know i want to think he grew up with his mother and he's raising children grew up the same way you know my parents separated and i'm raising children at the age of sixteen and as i well i can relate to that looking back ten years ago we had the malice at the palace the

credible night ten years ago november nineteenth twenty thousand for. at the palace in auburn hills you read it for the benefit of those who may not know you ran into this then what happened that you were on the pacers that night. i was still going through a lot at that time and i was your first year that was my second you had to put the faces and i had been with all the world struggles and i was going through some therapy sessions and i was working on my anger management problems so when i got into the altercation with ben lalas i mean really i merely said ok practice you know what you was being taught in your sessions so i want to lay on the scorer's table and i don't expect some i to throw something to hit me in the face and to this day you know i asked an understand why people sas started something when i totally didn't start it you know i didn't have been wallace first. and i didn't

throw something at myself. now i didn't want into the stands that's something that's a fact and i think people should just stick to the facts when they bring up the story and stuff you know making up stories because i didn't start them out of the palace and i always will sort of i thought it was under you flew off the handle but you know it is a hell of the use of a full of like three full handles and is it true that you become friends with john green then who incited it how did you work that out to have a friendship with him oh i had was at a bar at the brawl happened. and i would give so much backlash from the media and people not just telling other people stories and not being creative and telling the right story i just tell everybody like hey to me and you know so i had something out towards everybody and then a year later i have seen my psychologist and she was like you know i think you might want to you know facial fairs and things like that so i decided to reach out to john green and we started to talk and it took

a lot of weight off my shoulders you know. so given those who misty and still keep in touch you know that's a great thing yes a great i think is a something i want to talk about some current things in the n.b.a. le bron going back to cleveland yeah good idea i think it's a great because he's home and i would go home to i want to own a new york life hadn't worked out i wanted to but it's always good to go home and as it is suffering right now too so maybe you can bring some things in the city that other people can get a famous block on lebron james and maybe once a month for shit he's a pretty tough player. donald sterling we make it at all situation l.a. . i think you know. i guess i once again i say things to get me in trouble i always thought i could get in trouble in trouble but i thought that people i thought that his privacy was you know compromising i still believe that because i'm

a celebrity and i hate when people take pictures and take video and i'm not watching on the plane i'm sleeping and it's my snap and it is a mouth is open to something like that and they post it you know and i think that's unfair. yeah be hurt by what he said oh no i was hurt but it's not nothing i was surprised about you know i wasn't surprised that he said those things and. i understand people understand how everybody was raised and people is raised differently to this day people still being raised in races households some people's been raised in black black activists household extremists they are all type of extremists all over the world and different religions and where you understand is that ok immediately most money says something you've got to see ok why did they say it's over you the n.b.a. maybe you wouldn't have taken the team away. if i was him if i was the commissioner no or something like that. i just thought he needed he needed to do some major

damage control and he needed to. you know understand he was wrong for what he said and i think he did apologize. maybe taking the team away was right but i don't think that was my decision but everybody thought that everybody had different views on this you know you know if you don't like privacy invaded no definitely not will colby colby coach is going to be amazing what so i like him a great deal is really amazing what's he like as a teammate what's he like as a person i spoke to cody and he said he's going to carry the team and i just can't wait to see him play i can't wait to see how we doing harry the team is going to carry the team and i believe in. i believe but he's got he doesn't have much of what he doesn't meaning he never needed anybody. colby's like he could do everything himself the same as before but don't you want to win his lunch oh absolutely i want to win just as much as called you want to and he can't shoot like them i can see he's pretty he's pretty amazed. to see the lakers can come back you

think i think the legacy because they got boozer and got a nice pick they got cold we got len i like germany learned a lot i do too you know not going up there i like the music that these good points are really good point god when we come back metta world peace the advocate right after this. this was washington well it's a mess the whole picture is being suggested to the list is a. candidate for the office even foreign affairs is actually back to me doesn't do too much for ad revenue my contact agriculture giant song seventy six year old american farmer based in indiana fallout do you think it's going to create for the

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your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't afford college different. your boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry keep. norris. post only what really matters. to your facebook news feed. back with the world peace what made you come out about mental health i mean a lot of people don't have the problems or anger management might decide not to talk about why did you decide to talk about. well i decided to talk about it because i realize that i'm not the only one issues i realize that as a lot of kids have the same issues that i had and they get in trouble and i visit

prisons a lot of his of his adolescence in the san quentin have a class that i teach us in clinton i have a class that i teach orange county prison here in the california and i mean it's like about going to the prisons and and teaching people how to deal with their anger when you get psycho but i don't know i don't know i go to prisons and i just try to help out you know people that's in there that when they get out you know they'll be able to be rehabilitated and things like that but when i see the issues i'm not you know i want to do something about it you know and i want to get more prisons and i want to i want to help kids that's going to that anger management issues mental health issues they can't control themselves a home of this pond of selves that they're puting feed to is more fulfilling i guess that's the same thing you know it used to be therapeutic but now that i'm able to control myself a bit more understand what's going on you know is more fulfilling and now is i really have to do something just to get angry. not as much as i used to i get

annoyed more now. yeah and in two thousand and seven he started a nonprofit xcel university which works with high risk youth on education advocacy for mental health issue that you still very involved a website where you how do we get in touch with xcel university dot com. x x c e o x e e l university you can definitely donate there if you want we've been trying to set up things where we don't always have to ask you to donate so we try to draw the other events but if you don't have all of them right we do raffle the raffle off the rain raising money i'm only championship vary but we're going to stay an active and sometimes you know stay active with our message you know more than money because when you raise money from raffling you testified before congress yes here in public service announcements what about the heroes in the recovery race that's going to be great you know we are in it with

a lot of great organizations transcend it's the great i mean really patient home for a lot of you and i was on new york city you know hopefully raise the money again and you know this issue is this is so big and wise press so sometimes you raise five hundred thousand dollars of your raise mean dollars that's not enough but you sent a good message that's the main thing we can take it's a message to give people one of the problems you face is aside he still doesn't look at mental illness as it looks at kids meal. and you know. it's pretty much the same thing you know and his research and needs funding. we need we need to take care our future you know. and even education i guess we're behind in the world of technology and we're going small in all these other countries is going to begin to technology and are going to be somewhat dependent and so i think mental health is at the foundation of core you look at your

childhood as the reason for your anger after your doctor say you know at the anger management counseling i had marriage counseling parents and counsel and. i want to become better parent of things like that but absolutely my child was the reason you grow up in a violent household when you grow up in a violent community that can affect you right there and then when you don't address those issues early you become who you are you know and and then if you never address those issues and it is just live what you why didn't best since she was so good at that why didn't that help one would think you had but that was a way out so one would think why couldn't basketball right have helped you in all the other areas you can't because you know best what can speak to you know it's fun but it can help you personally you know i can't change you now you can for that period of time you know off the court your mind is only focused on basketball but if you bring something from home on

a basketball court then you have issues then you bring something from the bastille court then you bring it back home you know and nothing's been addressed on the court are you do you take that anger will heart attack the great jockey that he took his anger to the race right so he was he would be mad at his opponent and use that right to win races i don't agree with me personally i don't agree with that i can't play angry you know i like to play control so most of the time when i'm going to court. i've been working on plane you know focused so how can i give the same amount of effort the same maximum effort the same amount of intensity how can it be controlled you know how can you be like that and tim duncan and the spurs are perfect examples of that if they play just as hard as the miami heat you know but they when they don't show bo but they when they don't show too much emotion what they want and that's how that's how i should play the game is duncan and so when you admire great absolutely i admired duncan since two thousand and five when

i came from indiana i got traded to sacramento and i was still in transition i was just seen therapist and i watched him dunking and i'm like wow you know i want to play the game just like that and i would try actually to play the game relax and calm as not sometimes my coaches misstatement are you in the game are you in the game and i have a model tone sort of face you know a look at my face and again focus you know i'm ready got them play are you know is no need to be that excited right now why do you think it's hard for some players great player kevin love why is it hard for them to improve defensively why is defense hard for good players the defense he doesn't think is going to bring out a. and a lot of general manages some coaches and fans they don't understand how important effort is in life effort is important and when you want to call it you got a guy like tony allen you get a guy like while an average seventeen points about tell you about tell you

a month ago or a year ago seventeen points we'll get to that in b.p. and be a finalist you look at me and laugh but the effort behind that was the reason why i want to finals was the reason why they want to championship is defense effort differences effort and it's very it's just as important as often some people don't really understand that you can teach it all ak and i can teach it i don't know how many others we have some social media questions yes mickie hearts on twitter if you could with a championship for any city what city would be you can't give that away right because that would tell her you'd like to honestly like to win that it's two teams i want to win the championship for k. number one will be indiana good owner great owner a team that. kind of sparked my career larry bird and donnie walsh they help me out a lot and the second would be the training because because of the

brawl and i just of it would be an amazing story to want to championship in the trade good for that city to add dein fifty five who's the weirdest most interesting teammate you have a play with the way it is most interesting to me i guess in the run i said. he was pretty we had i. had bill did jesus have been twenty nine would you become an n.b.a. coach oh definitely i think i'm going to be a coach one day. hopefully you know. if i apply for it be a job owners can see past you know metta world peace and you know you know technicals. got a lot at j.d. hirsch will phil jackson eventually coach the next. well now that he got derek fisher no i thought if he brought in another culture he would definitely close next but he has to make in may who would a dream team of n.b.a. players consist of if you were able to make your own team dream team asking roberts and. larry bird shaquille o'neal michael jordan and

tim duncan le bron yet. i mean yeah game of if you only new member the first year you have a kist. i do always or name i name is considered and we was in in queens it was in queens or way i was fifteen years ago it was find out what happened to her yeah we got the kids together. first girl you kids there wow you took that far yeah. toughest player to defend toughest player to defend for me was a colby because he has every move people get mad because they say there is better le bron's better or kobe is absolutely amazing best all around team mate yeah i mean really yeah and that's going to head a shame baddie and going to derek fisher which is

a hard thing to do was special about yummy yummy was superstar one of the biggest superstars ever in the n.b.a. probably the biggest and the most humble is guy i've ever met like this so down to earth never seen a security guy. after his little truck now escalate i don't even know the name of the truck that he had had the tons of money that everything the team did a great hero in track this heroin china he's an amazing guy funniest teammate funniest teammate. probably would be the ma was pretty funny imo were low on mia he was a clown dance a lot biggest trash talker on the court paul paris is the latest still still to this day he's the last one he's on the wizards and on yeah he still be talking trash right now at everything about the game of basketball very thing about the game of basketball. is probably the ball the ball the ball best

college memory college memory. and have a long time and i don't have those only two years city schools st john's and we don't have don's was a major college it was more like a media center. adjective to describe being drafted how you drafted i was sixteen i was supposed to go higher but didn't i guess i dropped a little bit and it was amazing we had a great time you know favorite rivalry my favorite rivalry is probably paul paul pierce kobe bryant maybe part of i played against paul moore and called the toughest city the players on the tough city philly philly i guess everybody would say that it would bore a cure for cancer. it up oh yeah utah is pretty tough to fans of very loud right there loud of philly is like in your face you really want to lose music that pump

you up before a game alberta higher than they were sport besides basketball boxer peyton manning or tom brady tom new york yankees or mets mets would you rather hit a home run or catch a touchdown pass home run. you know my man met it. so what's the web site if they want to go find it yeah they can go to metta world peace dot com well xcel university dot com i want to thank my guest the n.b.a. great metta world peace can't wait to see where he ends up this year but in the meantime you can listen to met his world on power one zero six and find about more information on excel university and the heroes of recovery race at xcel university dot com remember you can find me on king's things c.n.n. just.

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