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It was message-sending time, NBA, and you blew it. World Peace should have been banned for the playoffs, forced to have been held truly accountable for his actions. It would have hurt the Lakers, sure. After a rocky season, World Peace was coming around in April, averaging 14.1 points before the Harden-clocking incident. Now they will have to make do with a combination of Matt Barnes and Devin Ebanks, solid players but not World Peace's timber. But L.A. knew what it was getting into when it signed the then-Ron Artest to a five-year, $34 million contract in '09. It knew something like this could happen, and it did.
Let's be clear: I don't think World Peace should be banished forever. And I don't want to minimize the strides he has taken to clean up his image. He took...
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