According to Yahoo Sports, his deal with the Lakers is one-year and nonguaranteed. “To watch those two guys practice, it’s nearly comical”, Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said. He won a championship ring with the Lakers in 2010 when he was still known as Ron Artest.
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Metta World Peace #15 of the Los Angeles Lakers enters the game for the first time off the bench against the New Orleans Hornets at Staples Center on April 9, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. The 15-year veteran has continued to maintain a good relationship with the organization since his departure, and has worked out at the team’s practice facility this offseason alongside Julius Randle on several occasions. A broken fibula side-lined Julius Randle in his rookie season.
He mostly relied on the cooked meals Lakers chef Sandra Padilla provides for the team, but also shopped for groceries with DiFrancesco.
Aside from Bryant and Randle, Peace joins a curious bunch of players for the coming season. The Lakers will reduce Randle’s training camp workload if they sense it could compromise his ability to enter the 2015-16 season on October. 28 fully healthy. When he collapsed to the court, other players said that they heard a pop as soon as the forward fell down. I don’t think there’s anybody in the league who has more money than we do available this summer.
World Peace will be the 19th player on the Lakers’ current roster.
It was about last week when word came out that the temperamental forward was trying to whip himself back into shape and was close to signing a one-year pact for the Lakers.
World Peace is 35 years old and will be entering his 15th season in the National Basketball Association. However, Kupchak said the Lakers were open to the possibility of waiving a player with a guaranteed deal to make room for a player who makes more sense for the team. He has the greatest hands I’ve ever seen play.
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Now that Metta World Peace is officially in the mix, it’s nearly as if the Lakers’ front office purposely has created this lovely storm – and we’re right in the eye.
