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Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest is finally back in the NBA after his massive suspension that cut his 2004-05 season drastically short. The second day of preseason featured Indiana in New Jersey to face the Nets. It was Artest's first game since the famous brawl in Detroit. InsideHoops.com editor Jeff Lenchiner and several other reporters met with Artest before the game for an interview. InsideHoops.com is the only place you'll read the entire transcript.

Question: Are you fitting back in with the team the way you expected, with no new issues or anything?

Ron Artest: I think everything is pretty much back to normal. My game's feeling good. Back in that rhythm. Everything's pretty much back to normal.

Question: What does tonight mean to you? Just a preseason game but your first game back. And some fans might open their mouths a bit in a negative way.

Ron Artest: That's cool. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to being bashed and cursed out, everything. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Question: Is it annoying coming to come to arenas for the first time at the start of each year and get asked the same questions over and over?

Ron Artest: It's cool. Because I get to promote my album. Ain't nothing better than that. Jay-Z, he pays millions of dollars for promotion. I'm getting it for free.

Question: True Warrior? (Spelled Tru Warier)

Ron Artest: That's the name of the label.

Question: You're CEO?

Ron Artest: Yeah. Distribution through Warner Brothers.

Question: Alright, we'll plug you.

Ron Artest: Last year I got ya'll, though. I got everybody in the United States last year. And I tricked, ya'll. Ya'll thought I was going to retire.

Question: What have you added to your game since we last saw you, anything in particular?

Ron Artest: More experience. My J is a bit more wet when I shoot it. It's just so nice and pure... Automatic... I just got better. I've just been working out so hard. I think I seen something last year with my team, that I have confidence in my team. That we can win. They played great without me. So I'm ready to come back and fit in.

Question: Have lots of friends and family here?

Ron Artest: I really wasn't going to tell nobody to come. But then I got some free tickets, so I just started calling everybody.

Question: How many free tickets did you get?

Ron Artest: Thirteen.

Question: Going to use all of them, huh?

Ron Artest: Going to use every bit of them. Free tickets, stolen from the New Jersey Nets.

Question: You were saying this morning you're going to be the same play you've always been. The same edgy guy, playing with passion. Is there any way that something like what happened in Detroit will happen again?

Ron Artest: Naw. I'm going to still be playing hard and out of control, just wild like an animal that need to be caged in, and I'll let the referees handle it.

Question: But what happened in Detroit, that's not going to happen again.

Ron Artest: No, I don't think anybody's going to throw anything at me from the stands. And I don't see me reacting how I reacted.

Question: You added weight, right?

Ron Artest: Yeah, I added about ten pounds. It was fat going into training camp, and then I got it down into muscle.

Question: So what do you weigh now?

Ron Artest: 260.

Question: And what should you weigh?

Ron Artest: I wish I was 280.

Question: You'd rather be 280?

Ron Artest: Yeah. Somebody gotta stop Shaq.

Question: Are you really 260?

Ron Artest: Yeah.

Question: Where'd you put it?

Ron Artest: Everywhere. I stretched it out.

Question: Is that going to affect you on ball?

Ron Artest: Uh-uh. It's going to be great. I can still play defense. And I play with my head anyway. I was never quicker than the guys I've been guarding. And I don't dunk on people like that. I just know how to stop my opponent.

Question: Yeah but you were the best at one main thing, pressuring the ball. How do you still do it at 260?

Ron Artest: I was 255 when I was doing it.
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http://www.insidehoops.com/ron-artest-interview-101205.shtml

Jesus, I didn't think he got up to 260. He did look bigger than the last season and 7 games though, vs. the Nets on Tuesday.

Good read.
 
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I personally love this set:

Question: What does tonight mean to you? Just a preseason game but your first game back. And some fans might open their mouths a bit in a negative way.

Ron Artest: That's cool. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to being bashed and cursed out, everything. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Question: Is it annoying coming to come to arenas for the first time at the start of each year and get asked the same questions over and over?

Ron Artest: It's cool. Because I get to promote my album. Ain't nothing better than that. Jay-Z, he pays millions of dollars for promotion. I'm getting it for free.

Question: True Warrior? (Spelled Tru Warier)

Ron Artest: That's the name of the label.

Question: You're CEO?

Ron Artest: Yeah. Distribution through Warner Brothers.

Question: Alright, we'll plug you.

Ron Artest: Last year I got ya'll, though. I got everybody in the United States last year. And I tricked, ya'll. Ya'll thought I was going to retire.

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Question: Have lots of friends and family here?

Ron Artest: I really wasn't going to tell nobody to come. But then I got some free tickets, so I just started calling everybody.

Question: How many free tickets did you get?

Ron Artest: Thirteen.

Question: Going to use all of them, huh?

Ron Artest: Going to use every bit of them. Free tickets, stolen from the New Jersey Nets.

Great stuff. Artest is so unique. :)
 
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Ron the head case Artest said:
Ron Artest: Uh-uh. It's going to be great. I can still play defense. And I play with my head anyway. I was never quicker than the guys I've been guarding. And I don't dunk on people like that. I just know how to stop my opponent.
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HE plays with his head? It has to be something else because there doesn't seem to be anyhing in his head.
 
*yawn* Yet the brawl has nothing to do with his game or how he plays. That was an off court disaster he admitted he got caught up in. Past things he's done, which I've seen most of, I don't know. Must of been frustration.
 
As I thought, many people (and the media as usual in general), took the "out of control" comments the wrong way and out of context:

Sports Illustrated - Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest said Friday night that comments he made earlier this week about playing like a "wild animal" had been taken too seriously.

"I'm going to continue playing hard and out of control, like a wild animal that needs to be caged in," Artest said Tuesday night before the Indiana Pacers faced the New Jersey Nets in the preseason opener for both teams. "I'll let the referees handle it."

Artest, who was suspended for most of last season after the NBA brawl in Detroit, doesn't see what all the fuss is about.

"It was nothing more than just a comment, a quote," he said following the Pacers' 93-84 win over Minnesota on Friday. "All that summarized was [being] hungry. It was definitely a real passionate quote.

"Before all this craziness happened, everybody said I played like a beast," he added. "I'm back to playing real hard and playing like a beast."
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http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/37557/20051015/artest_comments_taken_too_seriously/
 
Well he damn well better hold it together, because I just drafted him in a fantasy league I am part of. And one that counts technicals as a scoring category too! :eek:
 
vj9999 said:
HE plays with his head? It has to be something else because there doesn't seem to be anyhing in his head.
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Yeah, he's a bit loose upstairs, but you'd be kidding yourself if you said his D and tenacity didn't get in the other player's head. I think that's what he meant.
 
what people have to realize is this....

ron is gonna have the spotlight on him....

and not unlike most players....he likes that....

and much to the chagrin of some, hes not gonna go out of his way to turn the spotlight off....

rons comments have always been a little out of left field....and there is no sign of that changing....

ron lost a lot of money....and hes underpaid by nba standards....so look for him(probably at the advice of his marketing people) to do everything he can to stay in the limelight when it comes to the comments he makes, while keeping things as cool as possible on the court....

rons gonna have the ears of the whole world this season...and look for him to do just about anything, short of biting them, he can do to keep them for as long as he can...
 
While he may be underpaid as compared to other similar talent, he is also a HUGE liability. This alone can drop his value drastically. Have to agree that his marketing people are telling him to stay in the spotlight, keep all the attention you can get. He's got to make up for being out of work all last year somehow.
 
Ron Artest

Artest Talks To Penthouse16th October, 2005 - 7:29 am
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Indianapolis Star - At first, Ron Artest didn't want to appear in Penthouse magazine.

"I was going to shy away from it, with all the bad press I'm getting," the Indiana Pacers forward said. "But they gave me the opportunity to talk about my family and charities . . . things people don't know about me."

Artest will be featured in the December issue, which hits newsstands Oct. 25. He is shown on the cover with three bikini-clad women.

The interview reveals his gentler side. Of Pacers president Larry Bird, he says, "God put us together for a reason. He says he'd give up his salary for a year if 20 other millionaires would do the same to help poor people. And he agrees with Bill Cosby that poor African-Americans aren't doing enough to help themselves."

Artest also suggests that he and Ben Wallace box on pay-per-view for $10 million.

If these two were to go at it I would have to pick Artest, he is one crazy dude
 
TheLoneWarrior3 said:
I would pay to see him get his *** beat by big ben!
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He wouldnt get beat...

Ben Wallace 6-9, 240, 31 years old

Ron Artest 6-7, 260, 26 years old,

Also Ron Artest was a former boxer, he has some experience
 
x 213 x said:
Ben Wallace 6-9, 240, 31 years old

Ron Artest 6-7, 260, 26 years old,

Also Ron Artest was a former boxer, he has some experience
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Do you know how ripped big ben is? Has way bigger arms than Artest!
 
TheLoneWarrior3 said:
Do you know how ripped big ben is? Has way bigger arms than Artest!
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umm...so if he has bigger arms he should win??

There is more to boxing then ripped abs and big arms...
 
i know but he is still much stronger than artest, but lets wait and see if they fight and who will win




by the way artest is 245 lbs
 
We don't need a new thread for every Ron Artest article, so I'm going to merge this one with one of the others...
 
Bricklayer said:
Well he damn well better hold it together, because I just drafted him in a fantasy league I am part of. And one that counts technicals as a scoring category too! :eek:
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I'm actually thinking that he'll be under semi-wraps this year. Next year don't touch him.
 
TheLoneWarrior3 said:
I would pay to see him get his *** beat by big ben!
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NBA players aside from Barkley and Calvin Murphy can't fight. I can only think of two times where a player landed a solid punch on someone else's head (Kermit v. Rudy and Kareem v. Kent Benson). Erving got a few jabs in on Bird, but those were light.

Ben v. Ron would be a man-hug fest on the scorer's table, imo.
 
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I swear i read it in an article in which he said he was over 260 lbs...
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Oficially, Artest is 245 on nba.com. He can say that he is 260, but i can say im 7 feet tall but im not.
 
Artest has looked bigger in the couple games I've seen him in though. I'll believe him and what he specifically said (he didn't just say I'm 260 now).
 
TheLoneWarrior3 said:
Oficially, Artest is 245 on nba.com. He can say that he is 260, but i can say im 7 feet tall but im not.
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:rolleyes:

His official traning camp weight listed by the PACERS last year was 252. NBA.com is using a weight from several years ago.
 
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