Metta World Peace is still troubled by his famous run-in with Michael Jordan.

Sixteen years later, he still feels awful for potentially sabotaging the NBA legend’s second comeback with the Washington Wizards.

The man formerly known as Ron Artest, who won an NBA title with the Lakers in 2010, has now opened up about the pickup game he played against Jordan one offseason that resulted in the megastar missing three months of basketball with a broken rib.

World Peace has revealed exactly how he brought down the biggest star in basketball during a pickup game before the start of the 2001-02 NBA season when Jordan was on the verge of making his second comeback with Washington.

“We had an incident, me and Jordan,” World Peace told FOX Sports’ “In The Zone” podcast. “It was in the summer, playing pickup basketball. At that age when I sensed that someone was better than me, I go into my street mode. So when I got a chance to play against Mike, I was like, ‘I don’t give a rat’s ass.’

“He’s just as crazy as I am. He scored every single time, and I got tired of him scoring. So he was holding me and I knew that if he touches the ball, he is going to score. I cannot let him touch it.

“He was holding me, so I moved his arm out the way and I hit him in the ribs by mistake. That was one of the worst days of my life as a basketball player.”

When asked if Jordan went down in agony from the injury, World Peace revealed a story that sums up the five-time league MVP.

“No, he didn’t go down. Jordan is crazy,” he said. “He takes about five seconds. Then it’s his ball. He ends the game on jumper and then he walks off. That’s Michael Jordan, man. Michael Jordan.”

The game is only over when MJ says it is.

In a previous interview, the 37-year-old admitted he probably ruined Jordan’s stint with the Wizards.

He reckons Jordan never properly recovered after missing three months from the broken rib.

In that debut Washington season, Jordan averaged 22.9 points per game. Without the rib injury, World Peace says Jordan would have averaged 35 per game, he told ESPN’s “Mike and Mike.”

The close encounter with Jordan was enough for World Peace to rank the Bulls legend as the toughest player he ever guarded, including LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.

On Kobe: “Me and Kobe had some nice days. I love Kobe, man. Kobe talks a lot. Kobe’s fearless. Absolutely. He loves the game too much. You have to take his life to take that game from him. At that point, he really would die for the game.

“Me and Kobe, we were very, very physical in practice. Kobe was just amazing. I wasn’t successful enough against Kobe.”

On Jordan: “Jordan was strong. He was stronger than Kobe — not by that much, but definitely stronger than Kobe.

“They had similar moves, obviously. Kobe was more, he had more of that streetball in him. Kobe had more of the streetball with the fundamentals. Jordan, I think he was just all fundamentals and just get right to the point. Jordan would get right to the point.

“When I guarded Jordan at the end of his career, he was tough. So I measure that against the guys that I guarded in their prime. For me, I think Jordan was the toughest, even as an older player. He was tougher as an older player than some of these guys in their prime.”

On LeBron: “The thing about LeBron is he’s very unselfish, right? So he can pass the ball. When I guard LeBron, I used to always want him to shoot, but he would just make the right play. He’s legendary for making the right play, and it’s really hard to guard when you’re a team player.

“LeBron, he was real unique in where some of the other All-Stars, they would always try to take it personal, and go at me. I forced them into misses all night. They just miss ‘em all night. But LeBron was unique, where he would just make the easy pass.”