Former NBA star Metta World Peace shared a few thoughts about the many names he's adopted since trying to shake out his original name: Ron Artest (born Ronald William Artest Jr.) During an appearance on “Inside the Green Room with Danny Green,” the former Lakers forward opened up as to what spurred the change and what his actual name is today.

Via Christian Rivas of Silver Screen & Roll:

“The first game that I had with ‘World Peace,’ I was like, ‘This is the dumbest thing ever. I was coming off of the bench at that time, in 2011, and they say, ‘Metta World Peace!’ And I remember not wanting to take off my warm-up. It was embarrassing. So I did think about changing my name back, but then I got used to it, people got used to it.

“But right now, it’s funny because I got married, and my name now is ‘Metta Sandiford-Artest.’ I actually took my wife’s last and added it to mine.”

Metta recently married Maya Ford and has been over the moon with his relationship.

The controversial forward shocked the NBA world when he first chose to change from Ron Artest to Metta World Peace during the NBA lockout in 2011, telling Bill Plaschke of The Los Angeles Times a gem of a quote:

“I changed my name because I got tired of Ron Artest, he’s a [expletive],” he said at the time. “And when fans get mad at me, they can’t say, ‘I hate World Peace.’”

Artest had built a reputation of a firestarter after his role in The Malice at the Palace — the Pacers-Pistons brawl that took place in 2004. He also changed later his name to “The Panda's Friend” due to his daughter's liking for pandas and even revealed to Green that he was thinking of changing his name to “Queensbridge,” the New York area he hails from or “So Hood.”

Luckily neither of those made the cut, instead ending up with a much more normal name, similar to the one he sported through the first bulk of his NBA career.