The Los Angeles Lakers have kept Metta World Peace around the franchise for years, but after playing in just 25 games last season, he was not back on the Lakers roster nor on the sidelines this time around. That’s changing, sort of.
World Peace has agreed to join the South Bay Lakers, the Lakers’ development league team, as a player development coach, the team announced on Monday. The Lakers were clear that his time as a Lakers player was over during exit interviews, and one week into the season, it seems Ron Ron’s getting the basketball jones.