Metta World Peace picks up a flagrant foul, cuddles

Metta World Peace has a reputation as an angry, crazy man, the type of person who can make Tyler Hansbrough do a double take.

But we’re thinking of an younger, brasher Metta, the type of guy who might run into a crowd and start punching people -- a Metta that was named Ron Artest.

Now, he’s cuddlier. Literally. And that applies even when he does something like getting a flagrant foul for trucking Ramon Sessions.

Metta and Ramon were teammates on the Lakers, which explains the cuddle factor.