{"id":740480,"date":"2026-05-21T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/740480\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:00:18","slug":"metta-world-peace-declares-jalen-brunson-will-lead-knicks-to-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/740480\/","title":{"rendered":"Metta World Peace declares Jalen Brunson will lead Knicks to glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his ideal world, Metta World Peace would\u2019ve hoisted his own championship with the Knicks. He\u2019s still \u201csalty\u201d the franchise passed on drafting him in 1999, instead making the ill-fated choice of Frederic Weis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that hasn\u2019t sapped World Peace\u2019s enthusiasm for his hometown team, or his bold prediction about the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to win it,\u201d World Peace said in an interview with The Post. \u201cI think this is going to be the time. I knew I wanted to see it in my lifetime and it feels like Jalen Brunson is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/20\/sports\/jalen-brunson-is-stacking-up-derek-jeter-esque-credentials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the best player in the playoffs right now<\/a> even though (San Antonio\u2019s Victor) Wembanyama is really good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut right now, Jalen Brunson is the best player in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his ideal world, Metta World Peace would\u2019ve hoisted his own championship with the Knicks. He\u2019s still \u201csalty\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,1997,288,304,5903,6,11,56381,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":["post-740480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-exclusive","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-knicks","tag-metta-world-peace","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116614582963079493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}