World Peace was offered 35k to toss a college game

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I got approached a couple of times to throw games. The one interesting time they come to me in my neighborhood and say, ‘Hey, I got $35,000 for you.’ I’m like, ‘That’s cool, I’ll take $35,000.’ They say, ‘We need you to throw a game.’ That’s when I’m like, ‘You a—holes.’ But it crossed my mind — $35,000 to throw a game? Not bad. But that’s the problem … they find these kids that ain’t got no money and they attack them.”

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World Peace, who went by Ron Artest back in college, didn’t specify which games he was asked to throw or when it occurred. He played two years at St. John’s in the late 1990s, averaging 10.9 points per game. The Red Storm went 22-10 and 28-9 overall in his two seasons, getting bounced in the first round of the 1998 NCAA Tournament and reaching the Elite Eight in 1999.

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