“Jay-Z got up and said, ‘Yo, you got to chill out,’” World Peace said.
Not even one of the world’s most famous musicians, who tried to calm him during a gathering at a Beverly Hills hotel. Nobody, it seemed, could get through to him.
He said he had anger issues stemming from deep-rooted stress and anxiety. World Peace still seeks therapy, he said, and meditates every day.ĭuring his playing days, World Peace was in a dark place, though he didn’t realize it. People just approach and pepper him with questions. It’s not a business, he insisted, but something that happens organically.
World Peace described working with everyone from a Subway employee to chief executives. “And the more you open up, the more you can address it and get rid of it quick.” “At the core of a slump is the mental state,” World Peace said. to meet at Staples Center in Los Angeles to work out. One player - he won’t say who - will call as late as 2 a.m. players of all levels, who call him, essentially, so he can provide therapy. “Back then it was like, if I say, ‘I need help,’ what is the media going to say?” World Peace said. Throughout his career, teams put World Peace into several rounds of counseling, he said, but he felt he couldn’t be open. But as far as he could tell, players around him were not, or at least they didn’t talk about it. World Peace said that during his nearly two-decade career as one of the most feared defenders in the league, he was, indeed, unhappy. Now mental health is at the forefront of discussions surrounding basketball figures, thanks to the work of players like Kevin Love and DeMar DeRozan, with a nod to Royce White. players today were "genuinely unhappy,” in part because of social media. In March, Commissioner Adam Silver said N.B.A. championship, coaching aspirations and working with an investment group that oversees hundreds of millions of dollars.īut perhaps more important than all that: He has become a passionate voice for mental health awareness. World Peace has moved on to a remarkable second act, one that has included an N.B.A. He gives thoughtful answers - though by the time he’s finished giving them, you forget what you asked. These days, he is open to discussing the past and most anything else. On whether he was right to go into the stands to fight the fan who threw the drink, he added, “People should honestly make their opinions on the brawl, man, and I think it’s best when other people say you were wrong.”īut don’t ask him what other people said about it in the documentary, “Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story,” which was produced by Bleacher Report and will appear on Showtime on May 31. “What’s the rules of life?” World Peace, 39, said recently as he promoted a documentary about his life. The ugliness scarred the league’s image for years. World Peace, then named Ron Artest, hacked Wallace on a drive, prompting Wallace to shove him and a fan to throw a drink. It was a seminal moment for the N.B.A., that melee among players and fans near the end of a game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons. Metta World Peace has not spoken to Ben Wallace since the Malice at the Palace, the 2004 brawl World Peace now describes as “better than ‘Game of Thrones,’” even though he is friendly with one of the key instigators.
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