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World Peace: Stop making fun of Hansbrough

The Knicks have to hope that every player is as intimidated by Metta World Peace as Tyler Hansbrough appeared on Monday night.

Hansbrough looked frustrated with getting hacked on a layup attempt in the Raptors-Knicks preseason game … until turning around and realizing who had fouled him.

After seeing World Peace, Hansbrough’s expression immediately went from angry to apologetic. World Peace also contributed in a more conventional fashion by scoring 16 points in the Knicks’ 123-120 double-overtime loss.

As commenters began to poke fun at Hansbrough’s about-face, World Peace rushed to defend the forward in a series of tweets.