Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

Metta World Peace showed up Friday to the first day of training camp slightly overweight and greatly out-of-playing shape, blaming his lack of conditioning on the uncertainty of the lockout.

Check what Metta World Peace said when a female reporter asked if he was out of shape at the Lakers’ practice facility Sunday…

His statement, which drew laughs from a group of reporters, was an attempt to backtrack on comments he made Friday in which he acknowledged that he had let himself go during the lockout by drinking a few too many martinis.

“I was just playing,” World Peace insisted Sunday.

The reporter then called his bluff and asked that World Peace reveal his allegedly chiseled midsection.

“No,” he said.

WRITTEN BY Lakers Blog & FULL STORY HERE