Metta World Peace on guarding Doncic, Kobe and T-Mac, NBA players getting paid and more

Former NBA champion, all-star, and defensive player of the year, Metta World Peace, was featured in the newest episode of 1-ON-1 with Basketball Network. We covered several topics that might be interesting to your audience. Please find the link to the video as well as highlighted topics, quotes and timestamps below

Metta World Peace explains why it’s almost impossible to guard Luka Doncic (21:42)

• “He’s definitely one of the smartest players that I’ve seen.”
• “When I was thinking about how I would guard him when I was in my prime, I was thinking about it and it would have been really difficult, because of his release and his patience, and he got a big body, and he can score with not a lot of space.”

Metta World Peace on who he would rather take the last shot — Kobe Bryant or Tracy McGrady (13:07)

• “I mean you always gonna go with Kobe because Kobe had five rings and you’re just going by the numbers. Now, in their prime it’s hard, they was really good.”
• “Tracy got hurt, so with Tracy you know his back and his knees were so bad it just gave out early so you didn’t really get a chance to see how great Tracy was, but obviously he’s a Hall-of-Famer. Obviously he played very well but it was just hard because he was so injured he couldn’t move towards the end of his career, so that really hurt him a lot.”

Metta World Peace on NBA players Getting Paid & his Legacy as the Best Wing Defender of All-Time (17:06)

• “The NBA is growing right, it’s growing, the company is expanding, the revenues going up and that’s what happens and that’s what should happen. I’m happy that the players are getting paid because there were a lot of times where players weren’t getting paid but they should have, and now players are getting what they deserve so it’s just so impressive to see these numbers.”
• “I felt like I was the best defender and I always felt like my defense was better than people’s offense so no matter who was up against me, my job that night was to be better than you on defense and that’s how I thought about my game.”
• “I would probably argue that I’m one of the best wing defenders to ever play the game…”