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It seemed like Metta World Peace was a different person.
He changed his name, stopped fighting, and become oddly lovable.
But his vicious elbow to James Harden's head yesterday brought back old memories of the player Metta used to be.
We picked out 12 key moments to show you just far he had come before yesterday's incident.
Artest grew up in Queensbridge, NYC. When he was 12, he witnessed a player get murdered at a pickup game after another man broke off the leg of a table and stabbed him with it
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Source: New York Times via Hoops Vibe
Early in his career, he paid for dozens of friends and family members to visit him from Queensbridge. ESPN did a photo essay of his entourage that included 30 different hangers-on
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Source: GQ
In January 2003, he drew comparisons to Dennis Rodman after getting in two "testy exchanges" with Heat's coach Pat Riley
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Source: Sports Illustrated
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