Interview With Sacramento Kings Forward Ron Artest: “I Keep It 100%”

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Still Got It
Published 12/19/2007 by Bethlehem Shoals at freedarko.com
Longform on the way. In the meantime, read this absolutely amazing Artest interview at The Starting Five . One of the better conversations I've ever seen with a player, and did a lot to rekindle my interest in a guy I'd kind of tired of. Yes, I have zero loyalty. Ron Ron on the charity event he's appearing at: I wish there was more gangsters here though. I wish there was more street dudes. Dudes that are in the street hustling. Kids look up to them. They don’t look up to Tiger Woods, the 9 to 5 bus driver, or the sanitation worker. They look up to the street dude. I ...

Ron Artest vs. Guns and Drugs
Published 12/19/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Which is why I salute him for speaking out against it all the same, in an interview with Michael Tillery of the Starting Five: ...

Ron Artest, Rather Blunt and Honest
Published 12/19/2007 by TZ <info@sactownroyalty.com> at Sactown Royalty: Front Page Posts
It seems like every other week we're getting some great quotes out of or about Ron Artest. This Michael Tillery interview on The Starting Five beats them all, though. A sample: ...

Abraham Linking:
Published 12/19/2007 by Stop Mike Lupica at Stop Mike Lupica
... Along those lines, Mizzo from The Starting Five posts an interview he did with Ron Artest.  It's a great read, and Ron Artest is certainly one of the more entertaining people in the NBA.  And goodwilled... he talks extensively about his charity work, which we ...

TSF’s Interview With Ron Artest
Published 12/19/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... The Starting Five’s Michael Tillery conducted a wide-ranging interview with Sacramento’s Ron Artest over the summer, and while Artest’s detailed comments about the infamous brawl in Auburn Hills will attract most of the attention, his remarks about his departure from Indiana are equally revealing (link courtesy ...

Press clippings
Published 12/22/2007 by pistonsnation at PistonsNationBlog.com
... Ron Artest does a Q&A with the blog The Starting Five and answers questions about the Palace brawl. ...

Snub Me Two Times: Tayshaun Prince
Published 1/30/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... they won't say that, but you have to put up numbers to be an All-Star. If there was ever a situation where you didn't have to put up numbers to make an All-Star team, I would have already been on one a long time ago." The refusal to commend great, consistent defense on a league-wide level is among the biggest problems with current NBA media (blogs included); a Prince All-Star berth wouldn't even fix it. A philosophical Ron Artest got into this discussion in a great interview with Michael Tillery over the summer. "You don't get max money ...

In Which Ron Artest Gets Cultured
Published 2/2/2008 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
... Ron Artest is an interesting dude. The guy's been made the poster child of "athlete as thug," but if you actually listen to him talk, he clearly has a lot of insight and intellect. So have a few moments of weakness prematurely defined him ... or is he really bat[excrement] crazy? I won't even pretend that I know the answer, but I will say that a video of him attending an off-Broadway show was the absolute last thing I expected to ...

Heckling Ron Artest is So Not Cool
Published 3/13/2008 by Nate Jones at JONES ON THE NBA
... I think it’s time fans get off of Artest’s back. It’s like fans want to see the guy fail. From what most people say, Artest is a good hearted, but misunderstood individual. He probably has done more for his community than most of the fans that heckle him on a nightly basis have as a collective. If you’re a heckler or hater of Ron Artest, just do me one favor and read this Michael Tillery Interview of Ron-Ron before you pass judgment. If you still want to hate on him after reading that, then so be it. But at least get to know the dude and his perspective on things before you ...

Speaking with Jermaine O’Neal and Danny Granger
Published 4/17/2008 by Sam Rubenstein at SLAM Online
... MT: I spoke to Ron Artest and I could genuinely tell that he misses playing with you, Jeff Foster Stephen Jackson and Jamaal Tinsley. He told me he messed up there by walking away from the team because he wanted to finish his career playing with you. What’s your response to that? ...

Kobe and the Lakers Will Win In Six!
Published 5/22/2008 by Mizzo at The Starting Five
I boof on you! Don’t even think Timmay is getting though this one First things first..just shot this from Ron Ron’s people… NBA Star Ron Artest Interviews the NBA’s 2007-08 MVP Player of the Year, Kobe Bryant, for Fox’s “Best Damn Sports Show, Period” Interview will first air on the FSN, Friday, May 23, 2008, 11:00pm Local Time Los Angeles, May 2008: Sacramento Kings Forward, NBA star Ron Artest, interviews the NBA’s 2007-08 MVP Player of the Year, LA ...

NYOIL Interview: Hip Hop 1968 Black Is Back!
Published 7/9/2008 by Mizzo at The Starting Five
... Now Soulja Boy comes out of his mouth incorrect as well and so it goes on and on. Something Soulja Boy said that was real was that if Ice-T is mad, then do something about it. Open a Hip Hop school. Do something. Why you getting mad at me for doing something I know how to do? It’s strong livin’ on that. That’s like a man criticizing how his son was raised even though he wasn’t around to raise that son. That’s not cool. That’s just 100. Kids can’t be so arrogant to not take the knowledge some are giving them. If ...

NYOIL Interview Part I: Hip Hop 1968 Black Is Back!
Published 7/9/2008 by Mizzo at The Starting Five
... Now Soulja Boy comes out of his mouth incorrect as well and so it goes on and on. Something Soulja Boy said that was real was that if Ice-T is mad, then do something about it. Open a Hip Hop school. Do something. Why you getting mad at me for doing something I know how to do? It’s strong livin’ on that. That’s like a man criticizing how his son was raised even though he wasn’t around to raise that son. That’s not cool. That’s just 100. Kids can’t be so arrogant to not take the knowledge some are giving them. If ...

Would the Pistons actually trade for Ron Artest?
Published 7/23/2008 by Matt Watson at Detroit Bad Boys
... I know, I know … but isn’t Artest a little crazy? Don’t believe the caricature the media has painted of him, because he’s probably one of the most complex guys in the NBA. Read this interview he did with The Starting Five in December — it’s one of the most thoughtful and introspective interviews you’ll ever find, and it sheds some light on the other side of Artest that we rarely get to see. ...

Sacramento Kings Forward Ron Artest Traded to Houston Rockets For Bobby Jackson a First Round Pick and a Player to Be Named
Published 7/30/2008 by Mizzo at The Starting Five
Our best sports interview to date, for it was real rap Our boy Ron Artest is getting his wish and is on the move again. The Rockets will give up guard Bobby Jackson, a No. 1 draft pick next season and another player that the individual with knowledge of the trade could not name. Rockets general manager Daryl Morey declined to comment. Rookie forward Donte Greene, whom the Rockets acquired in a series of draft-night trades, will be included in the trade and is considered a key to the deal for the Kings. But ...