Metta World Peace

I wasn't at that game, but my friend, yeah, he died.

About, yeah.

Yeah, I wish, right?

I wish I didn't have to go through that.

I wish, you know, before I went to college, my brother didn't do 10 years in jail for drug trafficking before I go to St.

John's.

I wish Lloyd Newton didn't have to die on a basketball court because we were winning the game and table leg goes through his heart.

I wish Kenny Ito didn't get shot in his groin when he was playing with Lloyd Daniels and Rod Strickland at Oak Hill Academy and could have went pro.

But those things that made me tough, like I said, is not the persona I wanted to show out there.

The persona is really outside of basketball.

With basketball, I'm in survival mode.

When I was playing, I'm in survival mode.

I don't know nothing else.

So now you're going to get whoever that is.

You're going to get my best emotionally.

And people loved it, but for a game that I loved, I was also detrimental.

I also self-sabotaged.

So it was like things that I couldn't really control.

I could control, but I didn't know how to control them, you know, if that made sense.

So when I retired, I was able to decompress.