{"id":199780,"date":"2021-02-11T21:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=199780"},"modified":"2021-02-11T21:52:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:52:04","slug":"metta-world-peace-on-guarding-doncic-kobe-and-t-mac-nba-players-getting-paid-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/metta-world-peace-on-guarding-doncic-kobe-and-t-mac-nba-players-getting-paid-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Metta World Peace on guarding Doncic, Kobe and T-Mac, NBA players getting paid and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Metta World Peace explains why it’s almost impossible to guard Luka Doncic (21:42)
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  • “He’s\u00a0definitely one of the smartest players\u00a0that I’ve seen.”<\/li>\n
  • “When I was thinking about how I would\u00a0guard him when I was in my\u00a0prime, I\u00a0was thinking about it and\u00a0it would have been really difficult,\u00a0because of his release and his patience, and he got a big body,\u00a0and he can score\u00a0with not a lot of space.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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    Metta World Peace on who he would rather take the last shot \u2014 Kobe Bryant or Tracy McGrady (13:07)
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    • “I mean you always gonna go with Kobe\u00a0because Kobe had\u00a0five rings and\u00a0you’re just going by the numbers. Now, in their prime it’s hard, they was really\u00a0good.”<\/li>\n
    • “Tracy got hurt, so with Tracy you know his back and his knees were so bad it\u00a0just gave out early so\u00a0you didn’t really get a chance to see\u00a0how great Tracy was, but obviously he’s a Hall-of-Famer. Obviously he played very well but it was\u00a0just hard\u00a0because he was so injured he\u00a0couldn’t move towards the end of his\u00a0career,\u00a0so that really hurt him a lot.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
      Metta World Peace on NBA players Getting Paid & his Legacy as the Best Wing Defender of All-Time (17:06)
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      • “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.”<\/li>\n
      • “I felt like I was the best defender and I\u00a0always felt like my defense was better\u00a0than people’s offense so no matter who was\u00a0up against me, my job that night was to\u00a0be better than you on defense and that’s how I thought about my game.”<\/li>\n
      • “I would probably argue that I’m one of the best wing\u00a0defenders to\u00a0ever play the game…”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n