Lakers News: Former Los Angeles Champ Reveals Ideal NBA Destination

Would've been an interesting fit.

Though he eventually found his way here at the end of his career, one former Los Angeles Lakers forward wished he could have played his prime years in one specific location. 

Winning a ring with the Lakers in 2010, if this vital piece to that championship roster had his way, such an outcome definitely wouldn't have been possible in the slightest. 

Weis, who many basketball fans may know for being victim to the best dunk in Olympic history thanks to Vince Carter seemingly playing the wrong sport while on the basketball court, hurdling over the seven footer to finish the later dubbed "Dunk of Death".

Famous for all the wrong reasons, Weis never saw an NBA court while World Peace made a name for himself in many locations for his gritty defense and toughness. 

Though he too had his struggles early in his career, most evidenced by the Malice at the Palace game, World Peace rehabilitated his image with the Kings and later the Rockets. 

Joining the Lakers in the 2010 season, he was instrumental in the Lakers playoff run to the championship that would eventually be Kobe Bryant's last in purple and gold. 

Hitting a buzzer beater in the Western Conference Finals to put them up 3-2, Artest's putback allowed Bryant to extinguish the Phoenix Suns on the road the next game to send them to a rematch with the Celtics from the 2008 Finals. 

In 2010, the Lakers prevailed thanks to an ugly, scrappy game where World Peace drilled a three from the right wing late into the fourth that gave the team a lead they wouldn't relinquish. 

While the blue and orange would eventually fit World Peace later on in his career, we're certainly happy that it played out the way it did. 

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