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Metta World Peace will play in the Los Angeles Lakers game against the New Orleans Hornets Tuesday night, just 12 days after surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee that was supposed to sideline him six weeks.

Lakers forward Metta World Peace said he will start Tuesday night when the Lakers play the New Orleans Hornets, just 12 days after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee that was supposed to sideline him at least six weeks.

Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni is not optimistic that Metta World Peace will return from his knee injury before the end of the regular season.

The Los Angeles Lakers' snake-bit season continued Tuesday with Metta World Peace receiving an MRI in Minneapolis on his left knee that showed a lateral meniscus tear.

Andrew D. Bernstein/Getty ImagesPaul Pierce and the Celtics visit Ron Artest and the Lakers on Wednesday night in Los Angeles.The Boston Celtics (28-25, 8-16 away) visit the Los Angeles Lakers (25-29, 16-11 home) on Wednesday night at the Staples Cen...

The Los Angeles Lakers will be without two starters when they take on the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday.

After the Los Angeles Lakers' home loss to the Philadelphia 76ers Tuesday night, Kobe Bryant -- he of 34 years on this planet -- called the Lakers "an old damn team." And although some will say you're only as old as you feel, in real-age numbers i...

Editor's note: Throughout the 2012-13 NBA season we'll be asking our colleagues at The Heat Index to weigh in on the progress of the Lakers' newly minted super group. This week, Michael Wallace discusses the value of key players coming off the bench ...

A new-look Metta World Peace is looking forward to more looks in the Lakers' new offense.

With Oct. 1, Media Day and the season's official start inching ever so close, you can begin to smell basketball in the air. (As opposed to the other scent permeating throughout the Southland.) The anticipation is building and Lakers fans are excited....

It was late last week, while practicing his stand-up comedy routine in the shower, that Metta World Peace knew he'd developed some really good race jokes. Gay jokes, too. The type of jokes that could get an NBA player in trouble, but are nevertheless...

Lance Murphey/Getty ImagesLike Ron Artest, Jason Collins could be a rare player to wear a number in the 90s.The newest members of the Celtics quietly made their jersey selections this offseason (never an easy process considering all the retired digit...

Khloe Kardashian Odom, married to basketball player Lamar Odom, was born today in 1984 in Los Angeles. Khloe, 28, is a member of the Kardashian family, appearing on reality TV shows "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," spinoff "Kourtney and Khloe Ta...

Athletes are at their best in the offseason. Let's celebrate their antics. On May 21, the Los Angeles Lakers were knocked out of the NBA playoffs. Here's what Metta World Peace tweeted about the outcome the next morning: Not the ending we want...

Metta World Peace reflects on the Lakers season saying his team "underachieved" and was better than the Oklahoma City Thunder, despite the postseason defeat.

For the second straight season, a Lakers player has won the NBA's J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, "given annually to the player, coach or trainer who shows outstanding service and dedication to the community." Last year, it was Ron Artest (no...