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Kendrick Perkins: The only time that I ever got punked in my life. I'm like second third year in the league, I’m 19. And we bring in Michael Olowokandi. Every day of practice, for some reason, he's just going at me, right? I'm trying to scratch and claw just to even get a jersey. (…) So he's going at me every day in practice. I'm like, and I'm saying going at me, it's like elbows, I'm like, dog, are you okay? He just doesn't like me. So one day we tangle up at practice, right? So it's like one day we tangle up at practice a little bit. People break it up, but I'm like, man, you got me f*cked up. We get this at shoot around. We get to the arena for the game. I'm chilling in my locker, right? I got my chair turned. I'm sitting in my locker. I got music bumping. This is when everybody jamming music. I turn around, dude is standing over me, right? So he walks up. So I look up. I turn like this, I look up. I'm like, "Hey, bro. You good, man?" The dude just start choking the sh*t out of me. Literally start just like choking the sh*t out of me.
Shams Charania: Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett is reuniting with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Lynx in a new, all-encompassing role involving business, community efforts and content development, sources told ESPN. His long-awaited No. 21 Wolves jersey retirement will also happen in Minnesota. Kendrick Perkins: Yes sir big fella @KevinGarnett5KG 💯🤞🏾
Kendrick Perkins: My sources are also telling me, the big fella, that Detroit has a lot of interest in old Anthony Davis. (…) You got to match the money. You get rid of Tobias Harris who's making a lot of money on the expiring contract, right? You'll be able to pull off maybe some young talent, but long as you keep Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren and you bring AD over there to that Pistons squad…
ESPN is rolling out a fresh look for NBA Countdown, adding new voices and upgraded technology as the network prepares for its next slate of marquee game nights. The revamped studio team will debut Wednesday, November 19, at 6:30 p.m. ET on ESPN and the ESPN App. Senior writer Brian Windhorst joins the program after signing a multi-year extension with the network. His addition strengthens a panel that will now feature 2023 NBA champion head coach Michael Malone and 2008 NBA champion Kendrick Perkins as analysts.
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Kendrick Perkins: Here’s the problem with New Orleans. Great city — one of my favorite cities to live in. One, because they got great food. Okay, that’s number one. Number two — and this is what I’ll say — I understand where DeMarcus is coming from, because he played there. They’re always going to be second to the New Orleans Saints. That city is all about the Saints — from the ownership down to Mickey Loomis. They don’t give a damn about the Pelicans. It’s so bad that if you want to eat — you know how all NBA organizations now have first-class facilities with breakfast, chefs, post-practice meals? In New Orleans, you leave the Pelicans facility, and you gotta walk across the street to the Saints’ facility just to eat. And all your food is in boxes in the cafeteria.
One of the most outspoken members of that Thunder team in recent years has been Kendrick Perkins who was little more than a role player on those OKC teams. During a recent appearance on ‘Road Trippin,’ with Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye, Kendrick Perkins recalled a time from those Thunder teams when Scott Brooks called out both Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook for being too selfish on the court. “We’re in New York, we’re playing the Brooklyn Nets. I was in Oklahoma City and we lost. KD and Russ, we had 92 shot attempts as a team. KD and Russ took 80 of them,” Perkins said. “We walked up in the practice gym afterwards and he [Scott Brooks] told Thabo [Sefolosha], we’re all huddled up at half court. Scott Brooks gave the ball to Thabo and he said, ‘Here Thabo, shoot the ball two times.’ Thabo took two shots.”
“He gave the ball to Serge Ibaka. He said, ‘Serge, take one shot.’ Serge took a shot,” Perkins continued. “He threw the ball to me. He said, ‘Perk hold the motherf**ker.’ I held it. He said, ‘Russ, KD, we can’t f**cking win like this. Nobody’s going to want to play with you two guys.’”
ESPN is ordering several on-air talents to cut their marketing ties to controversial Papaya Gaming, Front Office Sports has learned. ESPN brass told Dan Orlovsky, Kendrick Perkins, Mina Kimes, and Laura Rutledge to end their promotion of Papaya and its solitaire app, sources say. Kimes already publicly bailed this past weekend.
Kendrick Perkins on top point guards of all time: You got Isiah Thomas, you got Magic Johnson, you got Stephen Curry. We know they're in there. Anybody else? You can kiss my ass. I ain't putting them in front of Russell Westbrook.
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Kendrick Perkins: “The organizations that whisper behind their coaches’ backs and don’t have their backs? Their teams are trash. So again, I feel like this relationship has run its course. I do think it’s time for Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies to part ways. And I think there’s only one option for Ja — only one direction he needs to go: he needs that Erik Spoelstra–Pat Riley–Miami Heat type of structure.”
Kendrick Perkins: “But it’s messed up because—like I said—Hall of Famers, when they finish their careers, whether they’re good at TV or have personality or not, the red carpet is rolled out for them. You know what I’m saying? As a champion—yeah. But as a role player? Man, I had to earn my stripes at that network. At ESPN, I had to earn everything. My first year and a half, I worked there for free. People don’t even know that, right? I had to earn the ability to capture an audience as a country boy from Beaumont, Texas—someone who sometimes shows up speaking with broken English. It took a minute for people to catch on to the country sayings—the kind of stuff I might’ve picked up from an uncle or an old head at the domino table.
Kendrick Perkins: Look, check this out, y'all: 15 to 20 years from now, the GOAT conversation is going to go like this—MJ, Bron, and Wemby. Those are the three names that are gonna come up in the GOAT conversation, because if this man stays healthy, right, he's going to be arguably the best defensive player we've ever seen. I believe he's going to win five or six Defensive Player of the Year awards. Can someone tell me a flaw that he has in his game—already, right now, at the age of 21? I'll wait. You can't tell me, 'cause he has none.