Metta World Peace

A celebrated Queens native with a quietly-impressive array of highlights from his three-year Sacramento Kings run, Metta World Peace shuffled through his full deck of offensive cards during an interconference battle on February 2, 2008. Encouraged to bring one of his best moves with Sacramento clinging to a two-point lead in the final half-minute, World Peace pivots into a face-up, weighing his options against both Joakim Noah’s height advantage and Ben Wallace’s potential help. Offsetting each defensive ace's strengths with speed and trademark determination of his own, the former All-Star jets down the right baseline, powering into a game-deciding, across-the-rim throwdown. World Peace’s clutch demonstration helped the Kings keep within reasonable striking distance in a historically-cutthroat Wild West postseason race, often fondly remembered for having all 50-win teams, and seeds No. 1 through No. 8 separated by just seven games. Elevating to the occasion against a former team, the do-it-all swingman logged 28 points (on 10-of-20 shooting), six rebounds, two assists, one block, and three 3-pointers against the Chicago Bulls.

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