In an interview with Dave McMenamin of ESPN, noted elbow enthusiast Metta World Peace proclaimed his innocence after being assessed a flagrant 2 foul for a shot to the face of Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried.
In a somewhat disjointed and logically inconsistent explanation, World Peace argued that he's not a dirty player, but instead, simply plays aggressively.
Here's a snippet of what he told McMenamin:
It's not like I brought this aggression to the league. I didn't invent this. This is what we watched, this is what we saw. The Bill Laimbeers and the (Dennis) Rodmans, they play hard and they wasn't trying to hurt anybody.
They played hard. They played with passion. We grew up wanting to play with passion. So, when the guys say we're dirty, we're just playing hard.
This would be a perfectly fine—if somewhat confusing—defense for the Feb. 25 elbow that MWP delivered to Faried's face. In a vacuum, the play could be construed as accidental.
But two things make it impossible to believe World Peace or view his latest infraction objectively. First, we're not all idiots. And second, YouTube exists.
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Metta World Peace Says He’s ‘Playing Hard,’ Not Dirty
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