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Ronald William Artest Jr. Wiki Biography

• Ronald William Artest, Jr., was born in Queens, New York City, USA, on 13 November 1979, but changed his name in 2011 to Metta World Peace. 
• He is a professional basketball player, perhaps best known for playing in the position of small forward for the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). 
• As an actor and rapper, he is also remembered. 
• Ever since 1999, his professional career has been involved. 
• It is estimated, according to reports, that Ron’s overall net worth is currently over $35 million; his annual salary is $7.2 million. 
• As a professional basketball player, the main source of this sum of money comes from his good career in the sports industry. 
• Other sources come from his careers in acting and music. 
• With two younger brothers, Ron Artest was raised. 
• While attending La Salle Academy High School, where he played on the school team, he began playing basketball. 
• Ron entered the 1999 NBA Draft, in which the Chicago Bulls selected him as the 16th overall selection. 
• He remained with the Bulls until he was traded to the Indiana Pacers in the middle of the 2001-2002 season, with players Brad Miller, Kevin Ollie, and Ron Mercer, for Travis Best, Norman Richardson, and Jalen Rose, and for a second-round selection, Chicago was granted rights. 
• Ron remained in Indiana until 2006, when, after a suspension of 86 games, he demanded to be traded after he and some other Indiana and Detroit Pistons players were involved in court altercations. 
• Ron then signed a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers worth $33 million for a term of five years, but the Lakers used the amnesty clause in his final year of the contract, and Ron was waived. 
• Ron signed a deal with the New York Knicks after his departure from the Lakers, which further boosted his net worth, but he was also released by the club in 2014. 
• He started his basketball career in China, playing for the Sichuan Blue Whales, remaining there for several months, which only added to his net worth, and then, before returning to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2015, he signed a deal with the Italian Pallacanestro Cantu basketball team. 
• “Apart from his successful career as a professional basketball player, Ron is active as an actor and hip hop recorder in the entertainment industry, with his own reality TV show entitled “They Call Me Nuts. 
• Ron is also renowned for creating the Artest Media Community, which has contributed to his net worth a great deal. 
• He released an album called “My World” in 2006, featuring guest artists Capone and P. Among several others, Diddy. 
• Ron Artest married Kimsha Artest, a TV personality known for featuring in the reality TV show “Basketball Wives: LA” from 2003 to 2009, with whom he has three children, with regard to his personal life. 

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Ronald William Artest Jr. Important Facts

• (January 25) Traded to the Sacramento Kings for ‘Peja Stojakovic’.
• (August 14) Traded to the Houston Rockets.
• Legally changed his name in September 2011 to Metta World Peace (his NBA jersey has World Peace on the back).
• Grew up in the Queensbridge Public Housing Projects in New York.
• Jennifer Palma is the mother of Ron’s son Jeron.
• Ron and Kimsha Artest had been in a relationship since 1994, when he was age 15, she age 14. They have 3 children together: Sade, Ron 3, and Diamond.
• Attended LaSalle Academy in New York, NY.
• Has worn three numbers in the NBA, 15: thought his dad was that number (he was 51), 23 after Michael Jordan, and 91 after Dennis Rodman
• Received the longest suspension in NBA history – 86 games (73 regular season, 13 playoffs) for his involvement in the infamous “Palace Brawl” with Detroit Pistons fans on November 19, 2004. Teammates ‘Jermaine O’Neal (I)’ and Stephen Jackson were also involved.
• Drafted 16th in the first round by the Chicago Bulls in the 1999 NBA Draft.

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