Metta World Peace
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We would cross Vernon, go to River Park.
Long Island City is different now.
You know, we would just play, you know, sit down and talk.
He was just counseling us.
That shaped me because now you can see I was one of the only athletes to be like, oh, I want to thank my psychiatrist.
That felt normal to me.
People was like, man, you're crazy.
You just thanked your psychiatrist on TV?
I'm like, yeah.
My psychiatrist helped me out.
I'm thankful.
Why would I not thank her?
But she wasn't my psychiatrist.
And the thing about that, so she was my psychologist.
She called me the next day.
And she said, I'm not a psychiatrist.
But the reason I didn't correct it, because, you know, you say you're on psychiatry and you're taking medicine and sports.
Oh, he's crazy.
He's on medication.
But the reason I didn't say, oh, she's my psychologist was because I thought that was even a bigger statement.