Metta World Peace
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It was like so many things, you know, it's a way to get it done.
You play well, you build relationships, you know, and different things.
So I didn't get a chance to do a lot of the corporate stuff that I wanted to do.
That was in my mind.
I'm going to be great.
I'm going to do it just like this.
I'm going to have a career, maybe like Mike or maybe like Tim Duncan, right?
And then it changes, right?
So I had to get it back.
But yeah, I didn't retire how I wanted to.
I never really officially retired because of that reason.
Maybe I just started saying I'm retired like two, three years ago.
But no, I did not retire how I wanted to.
Yeah, it got the best of me.
I was still pretty good.
I averaged 20 in Sacramento.
In Houston, you could watch the Lakers series.
I was really good.
That was five years later.
I was really good that year, but when you're playing with Kobe, yeah, you can average 20, but I averaged seven points.