Yes, Chicago’s ABC Affiliate Identified Metta World Peace As "Lakers Idiot"

[Tugg Speedman]

The link as a 17 second video that is worth a look

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Yes, Chicago’s ABC Affiliate Identified Metta World Peace As "Lakers Idiot"

http://deadspin.com/5911108/yes-chicagos-abc-affiliate-identified-metta-world-peace-as-lakers-idiot

Last night the internets buzzed about the veracity of a photo showing the lower third graphic from a TV newscast identifying Lakers ne'er-do-well Metta World Peace as "Lakers Idiot." Our pals over at Busted Coverage asked this morning if it was real, and as the video above will show you, it is indeed legit.

Commenter Disco Choo is responsible for unleashing this brilliance upon the world, and pointed us in the right direction; it's from Chicago ABC affiliate WLS's 5 p.m. newscast on May 14th. Case closed!

[Dawson Rental]

Mark Giangreco is the sports anchor doing the voice over on the story.  He is also the sports director for WLS-TV in Chicago, so I fully believe that we can credit Mark for this small bit of truth in journalism.  He is a University of Dayton grad, BTW.

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Mark Giangreco is the sports anchor doing the voice over on the story.  He is also the sports director for WLS-TV in Chicago, so I fully believe that we can credit Mark for this small bit of truth in journalism.  He is a University of Dayton grad, BTW.

Yeah, he is usually takes the lighter, comedic side of things.

[AlumKCof93]

Did anyone have any doubt who he was referring to?

[WI inferiority Complexes]

He was suspended after the Pistons won the championship.  He showed a clip of an old movie where a riot was burning a city and said, "Yep, typical Detroit. I'm just kidding."

[Biggworm]

He's also the idiot that said Walter Payton looked like Gandhi, before Walter broke the news about his liver disease. 

Definitely a class act

[Pakuni]

He's also the idiot that said Walter Payton looked like Gandhi, before Walter broke the news about his liver disease. 

Definitely a class act

In all fairness, Giangreco and Payton were close, and he had no idea about Waltere's illness. So, when  he said that, he was under the woefully mistaken impression that he was simply ribbing a friend.

[WI inferiority Complexes]

In all fairness, Giangreco and Payton were close, and he had no idea about Waltere's illness. So, when  he said that, he was under the woefully mistaken impression that he was simply ribbing a friend.

Was he close with Gandhi, also?  You know, just ribbing a friend?

[MerrittsMustache]

In all fairness, Giangreco and Payton were close, and he had no idea about Waltere's illness. So, when  he said that, he was under the woefully mistaken impression that he was simply ribbing a friend.

Walter had told him that he lost so much weight because he was training for a marathon. Giangreco had no way of knowing how serious it actually was.