Peace coming home to the Knickerbockers?

Metta World Peace — i.e., the player formerly known as Ron Artest — could be coming home if the Lakers cut him. Peace is erratic. He’s combustible. And yet, he remains one of the true lock-down perimeter guys around. He’s physically strong, can hit the three and may be the one guy who fits alongside Carmelo Anthony at forward if the Knicks and Melo insist that the franchise player is better off at the four.

Signing Peace — which is far from a done deal, of course — would give the Knicks two elite perimeter defenders (along with Iman Shumpert), as well as two of the league’s most erratic and self-centered players (along with J.R. Smith).

It also should be mentioned that Peace should have been a Knick out of college — he went 16th in the 1999 NBA draft, one pick after New York landed Frederic Weis, perhaps the worst pick in the franchise’s long history of dumb draft moves.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet