Metta World Peace and his daughter, Sadie Artest, were on a Hallmark Channel cooking show called Home & Family to make a summer chicken salad this week (h/t Basketball Insiders’ Eric Pincus). Sadie Artest was the one who handled the ingredients, while Metta was asked about the Finals and how it felt to watch the Cavaliers win.

Metta said it’s a little weird watching games because he wants to root for the players, like LeBron James, but at the same time he wants to play against them and beat them on the court.

Next, he was asked about his relationship with LeBron, and he brought up an interesting factoid.

“I’ve been watching him since he was 15 years old. I remember I was in Chicago when I was 19 and he was a 15-year-old boy playing with me, Michael Jordan, and a lot of others.”

Flash forward 17 years, 36-year-old Metta is a one-time champion, and 31-year-old LeBron has won three. It’s incredible how time flies. Metta said he hasn’t talked to LeBron since the Finals, but he added that he did speak to Iman Shumpert and others.

Metta said he’s happy for the Cavaliers and the young guys on the team and that he believes they deserve the championship. He even said that he got swept up in the emotions of the moment and started crying after they won.

A day after the game, he declared this past season to be the NBA’s greatest ever.