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The 40-year-old American, whose nickname is Ronald William Artest, changed his last name for the first time since the 2011 season.
He spoke about it during the program “Inside the Green Room with Danny Green”.
The striker, who finished his professional career in 2017, claimed that his first attempt to change his last name now seems silly and comical to him.
“Already in the first game with the new last name, I thought how stupid it is. I got up from the bench and listened to Metta World Peace. I didn’t even want to take off my warm-up shirt. I immediately thought about getting the old last name back, but people were already used to the new option, so I abstained.
But now that I got married, I had the opportunity to make changes and from now on they would call me Metta Sanidorf-Artes. I just used my wife and my old name, “he explained.
When Metta became World Peace, the American commented on his choice: “I changed my last name because I got tired of Ron Artesto. He woke up angry, angry. Now people who don’t love me won’t be able to say: I hate world peace.
Later, while playing in China, Metta World Peace came up with the idea of calling itself “Panda Friend” and even wore such a T-shirt. Why? Because her daughter loved pandas very much. According to the basketball player himself, he also had a few more drivers to call himself, but he stayed on the most logical.
The forward became NBA champion in 2010, representing the Los Angeles Lakers.
In 2004, when he was still Artest, he became famous for his outrageous battles between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons.
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