During Sunday afternoon’s Lakers home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, we saw a side of Metta World Peace (a.k.a., Ron Artest) that we haven’t encountered in quite some time.

World Peace elbowed James Harden hard in the side of the head. Harden went to the ground immediately, and Metta was immediately and rightfully ejected from the game.

The entire incident happened very quickly, so much so that it’s hard to know exactly what World Peace intended to do. What’s apparent is that he felt Harden and responded by swinging an elbow. However, MWP also didn’t look over his shoulder to see who it was and seemed to throw his elbow as an impulse rather than with the intention to hit a player in the head.