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World Peace Inks New Deal With Knicks

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) – Metta World Peace, a former defensive player of the year, has agreed on a two-year contract with the New York Knicks.

World Peace, whose given name was Ron Artest, confirmed the deal Monday at the Knicks’ summer league contest in Las Vegas. Details of the contract were not released.

“It was simple for me,” the 33-year-old native New Yorker told MSG Network.

World Peace averaged 12.4 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 75 National Basketball Association games, with the Los Angeles Lakers last season. He went unclaimed in the amnesty waiver process and became a free agent on Sunday.

World Peace has appeared in 902 games over 14 seasons since being drafted 16th overall by the Chicago Bulls in 1999.

He was named the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2003-04.

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Do You Have Super Ager Potential?New Quiz Shows How Well You Are Aging

Do You Have Super Ager Potential?New Quiz Shows How Well You Are Aging

When someone says that age “is just a number,” they’re talking about a fact of life that everyone knows: As some people get older, they hold onto a youthful vitality and suffer less from age-related illness, while others feel and show the toll of advancing years.

And with so many of us living longer than previous generations, the measure of lifespan, or the number of years we exist, is increasingly overshadowed by the concept of “healthspan,” meaning the number of years we spend in reasonably good health.

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The GOP Is Now The Party Of Putin

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President Vladimir Putin, left, and former President Donald Trump

"Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it's infected a good chunk of my party's base." That acknowledgement from Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was echoed a few days later by Ohio Rep. Michael Turner, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. "To the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle."

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