Metta World Peace
I Wanna Be Mavs’ Subsequent GM
… Name Me!!!
Revealed
TMZSports.com
Hey Mavs, TMZ Sports activities simply discovered your subsequent common supervisor — METTA WORLD PEACE!!!
We spoke with the previous NBA star this week … days after the Dallas Mavericks fired Nico Harrison, who was answerable for one of many worst trades in NBA historical past — Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis.
We began the dialog by asking for Metta’s response to the firing … however he caught us off-guard when he stated he needed to take Harrison’s job!!
“The rationale I say that’s as a result of I obtained a lot expertise,” Metta stated.
“Working a basketball enterprise can be pretty simple; working a sports activities enterprise is pretty simple on the highest stage, whether or not it is president or common supervisor. I am working all operations.”
Metta has finished all of that. After spending 17 seasons within the NBA, Metta turned a South Bay Lakers participant improvement coach … and was the assistant head coach for the Cal State LA girls’s basketball staff.
He additionally based the Artest Administration Group … and lately signed to co-manage up-and-coming boxing star Chordale Booker.
If the interim guys Michael Finley and Matthew Ricciardi do not pan out, Basic Supervisor World Peace does have a hoop to it. What do you say, Mavs?!