Metta World Peace's birthday didn't quite go as planned.

The Lakers trailed by two points in the final seconds of Tuesday's game against the Spurs. World Peace inbounded the ball. He looked to pass to Kobe Bryant but the Lakers superstar was tightly covered by Kawhi Leonard, so he threw the ball to Pau Gasol, who missed a 24-foot three-pointer as time expired.

Bryant was clearly peeved by World Peace's decision on that play, but nothing could get the 33-year-old birthday boy down after the game.

"It was a good shot," World Peace said. "The telepathy was off a little bit."

World Peace soon realized that something else was off.

"What does telepathy mean?" he asked. "Is that even a word?

When a reporter suggested that perhaps World Peace should have used the word "trajectory," World Peace beamed.

"You must be like a scientist," he said.

He then spent the next 20 seconds trying to spell the word.

"T-R-A, don't say it," he said. "T-R-A, tell me that's right."