Artest: I spoke of drinking to help kids (AP)

Although Ron Artest's streetball games in New York usually included breaks for water or Gatorade, the Queens teenager knew other players who would recharge with Olde English malt liquor. Those bad examples stayed in his mind while he went through college at St. John's and into the NBA, where Artest says he sometimes drank cognac during halftimes early in his career with the Chicago Bulls.

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