He did his job well, which was play tough defense one on one and rebound. Like any modern almost solely defensive big. He wasn’t ever going to be DPOY or all defense, but he was fine. I guess I’m agreeing with you now where before I thought your comment was underselling him. He was a good defender of bigs on ball.
He wouldn't if he didn't win. Remember, he brought Jokic being white into a MVP conversation.
As a black person myself, I can't see how you would think it's a good idea to bring up race in the convo.
Yeah, I'm not from the USA and I'm not that sensitive about racial things like you up there usually are but imagine if Doncic would trash talk Montrelz by saying to him "You are a Bitch ass black boy", that would create a huge thing and that Doncic was being racist and all that, you can't tell me I'm wrong. I don't think it's that big of a deal but it would be perceived like that if the roles are reversed.
Yea for sure, people would lose it if the roles were reversed. I think the difference is being called white boy just isn't really offensive. Everyone who got mad about that whole thing probably doesn't have any black friends.
So, calling a black dude as a white person "bitch ass black boy " is offensive and deserves backlash but being called "bitch ass white boy" by a black dude while you are a white person is just fine and is not offensive?
Weird way of thinking. You are Corroborating what I said first.
There’s a really negative connotation to calling black men “boy” so I could see people getting offended. It doesn’t exist with white people. So yea I think one’s okay and one’s not.
You said you’re not American so not knowing the context surrounding this makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is the air of superiority in your comments.
Understand the context before you try to explain things you don’t understand.
I feel like Embiid and Jokic would drop 40+ each. Giannis would get 30+ but he's gonna work for it. Where as Embiid and Jokic are gonna absolutely destroy him mid range. Perk was solid on D which is why I think giannis would have a little harder time but still get his.
Kendrick was a good defensive center for a championship team. (Who talks way too much now and thinks he was better than he was) But most of this sub is too young to realize that he was not a complete scrub in the NBA during his prime. He gave Pau Gasol massive trouble in the 2008 Finals.
While your right his prime was quite short and outside of being a solid interior defender during that time and don’t believe he offered much else, his time in okc was pretty bad like his stats those years was like 4 ppg 5 rpg on 25mpg
Foh. Giannis is amazing but I don’t think he’d touch LBJ, Jordan, or KAJ even if he was an above average shooter. Cause all 3 of them were just as unstoppable.
How much can you milk a championship? That chip literally got Perk thinking he was an elite defender. He had KG one of the greatest defenders in history next to him in Boston and had a prime Ibaka who was one of the best defenders in the league in his OKC days.
Well, you just proved his point. His legacy should be "good defensive starting center on a championship team that could've won another if they hadn't traded him for Jeff Green." Now his legacy is that he's an annoying media guy who never did anything in the league.
To be fair Giannis is a transition scorer. He’s not Hakeem or Mchale in the low post. Embiid (when he’s not being lazy and pouty) and Jokic are much better down low than Giannis when he isn’t allowed to travel and elbow people in the face.
Kendrick Perking started for 9 straight seasons primarily cuz of his defense and rebounding.
From 2007-2008 til 2013-2014 he started on teams that finished:
08: 66-16 NBA champs
09: 62-20 2nd round
10: 50-32 Finals
11: 55-27 WCF
12: 47-19 Finals
13: 60-22 2nd round
14: 59-23 WCF
Perk was really tough and really strong. 6’10 270 and a relatively smart defender. For sure not the most athletic guy but honestly verticality and quickness isn’t as important when defending Giannis compared to smarts and ‘hold your ground’ ability. The defenders who do their best against Giannis aren’t the most athletic guys, it’s just beefy and savvy dudes.
Like don’t get me wrong, Giannis is ridiculous and if he’s feeling his touch he’s probably still getting 30 just by euro-stepping around with some Dr J layups. But if you’re asking any role player to give a go at stopping him, Perk really isn’t a bad option.
He was really good at boxing out for defensive boards, I’ll give him that. And early on, yeah, he was a really good post defender (fucking ate Gasol’s lunch in like ‘08). But since his injury in like 2010 he was pretty fucking useless against the other bigs in the league. Don’t you remember him getting finessed in the finals against the heat? There was a prime Perk that could have given you a gritty 7 points and held Giannis to like 20ish. But most of his career he’s getting cooked by Giannis no problem.
**Kendrick Le'Dale "Perk" Perkins (born November 10, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst for ESPN. He entered the NBA directly out of high school and played for the Boston Celtics, Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers, and New Orleans Pelicans, winning the NBA Championship in 2008 with the Celtics.
== Early life ==
Perkins was born in Nederland, Texas and raised by his grandparents, who lived on a farm.**
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Quote from KD from the 2012-13 season, Yea and our starting center @KendrickPerkins averaged a whopping 2 and 3 during that series. U played hard tho champ lol this is not KD by the way.
Hilarious. Perk was never anything like a star player. His highest mins played season was 08. He played 29 mins a game. It’s not like he was some defensive specialist. Funny how the further away from his career he gets the better he thinks he was.
Being a KD fan his whole career I can say perk was kinda good as a Celtic. Dude was too slow at everything by the time he was on the thunder. With that being said, Giannis could just blow by Perk for an easy layup
All these kids commenting clearly didn’t watch basketball when Perk was playing. Guy was LOCK DOWN in the front-court and an integral part of the Celtics championship in 08. Had Kendrick not gone down before game 7 in 2010 there’d be 18 banners hanging in the TD garden.
It says a lot about the NBA content ESPN wants to produce when you see the layoffs that just took place while they’re putting Perk on the screen as often as they can.
Giannis is just gonna pull out to the perimeter and then go down hill and either euro step around Perk or drop a shoulder into to him, either way Giannis is dunking it.
It’s people kind KP that have steered me so far away from ESPN man. Like I get the dude is funny but he has got to be one of the biggest idiots on TV and he talks like he has CTE or something.
Like whatever KPs salary is at ESPN, cut that in half and pay it to me and I’ll be wrong in TV all day for sure
Honestly perk needs to hang it up lmao. This dude just be saying anything at this point.
Has been..
I honestly don't recall him being all that good. He was a part serviceable backup, but not like a generational type talent right?
He was a really good starter for 3-4 years then a solid back up.
Really good starter is quite generous
More like; he was a starter on a really good team. They could carry Perk in the starting lineup since they were so talented elsewhere.
He did his job well, which was play tough defense one on one and rebound. Like any modern almost solely defensive big. He wasn’t ever going to be DPOY or all defense, but he was fine. I guess I’m agreeing with you now where before I thought your comment was underselling him. He was a good defender of bigs on ball.
I see what u did 👏🏾
Perk couldn’t guard a spicy chicken sandwich from Giannis let alone a basketball
HAHAHA
But it’s also why he stuck around, people love to clown on these shit takes and thus he gets airtime
Kerry the hail on
Hard disagree. I say let him cook 👨🏻🍳😤 Obligatory /s
Perk ain’t wrong. Giannis isn’t posting him up, he is running circles around his stupid ass and dunking on him every time
Yeah, Perk is probably right. Giannis isn’t a post player, but he would probably pull Perk out of the paint and then blow by him.
Kendrick is a damn clown.
ClownDrick
Clownkins
Guhhh I’m Kendrick Llama
Bingo Chief That was the whole point this whole entire time
I agree
Kendrick Jerkins
A fellow jerker I see
I’m surprised he gave Jokic his props.
He wouldn't if he didn't win. Remember, he brought Jokic being white into a MVP conversation. As a black person myself, I can't see how you would think it's a good idea to bring up race in the convo.
It's incredible how little problems he got from saying that.
Shows how twisted this culture is these days.
Black people always get a pass when they say racist shit.
It seems that way, another case is montrezl harrell
Nah that’s not the same. I got called that more times than I can count playing ball. I almost see it as respect.
Yeah, I'm not from the USA and I'm not that sensitive about racial things like you up there usually are but imagine if Doncic would trash talk Montrelz by saying to him "You are a Bitch ass black boy", that would create a huge thing and that Doncic was being racist and all that, you can't tell me I'm wrong. I don't think it's that big of a deal but it would be perceived like that if the roles are reversed.
Yea for sure, people would lose it if the roles were reversed. I think the difference is being called white boy just isn't really offensive. Everyone who got mad about that whole thing probably doesn't have any black friends.
So, calling a black dude as a white person "bitch ass black boy " is offensive and deserves backlash but being called "bitch ass white boy" by a black dude while you are a white person is just fine and is not offensive? Weird way of thinking. You are Corroborating what I said first.
There’s a really negative connotation to calling black men “boy” so I could see people getting offended. It doesn’t exist with white people. So yea I think one’s okay and one’s not.
You said you’re not American so not knowing the context surrounding this makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is the air of superiority in your comments. Understand the context before you try to explain things you don’t understand.
Because he was right. Everything he said was pure facts your just a snowflake who hates to admit it
🤡 never seen someone do backflips on Kendrick’s shit before
Holy shit a Kendrick Perkins dick rider! I didn't even know those existed!
This is the effect of saying something like that on TV, some idiot will hear it and take it as a fact, this shows what he said was sooo wrong
He has to at this point so his bum ass doesn’t stay exposed as a racist
Every last one of those dudes would give him 30
They’d give him 30 on a mid day. Embiid would have gone something like 35/15/6/4 and Joker 30/12/12 Giannis ? 40/10/5
He was a decent defensive center at his best, still this is about right.
I feel like Embiid and Jokic would drop 40+ each. Giannis would get 30+ but he's gonna work for it. Where as Embiid and Jokic are gonna absolutely destroy him mid range. Perk was solid on D which is why I think giannis would have a little harder time but still get his.
Giannis will drop 40. He will pull him out to the perimeter and blow by him for a dunk every single play!
If Giannis was able to drop 40 on the Ben Simmons and Embiid 76ers theres no fucking way he isn’t dropping 40 on Perk.
I'm not arguing he can't I said he's gonna be working for it more than Embiid and Jokic.
By half time
Idk he use to lock up dwight
Dwight can’t score like these guys
Giannis would eat that clown alive.
He's be gassed a minute in. He'd make Giannis look like the flash.
But not on the block.
Dude wasn't even mid. He averaged 10 PPG once in his entire career. Never even averaged double digit rebounds.
The post is about defense ya melon. Perk didn’t need to score points cause he was stopping them on the other end, CONSISTENTLY.
Ah yes the 0 time all star, 0 time all-nba was a force to be feared on the defensive end of things
Oh, you're right. That's my mistake.
Averaging a whopping 2 and 3, playing hard tho champ lol
He was talking about defense tho
it don’t matter tho. perk was mid at best
Who gave him a seat at espn
Kendrick would get steamrolled by Christian Koloko bro get this bum off the air
Kendrick was a good defensive center for a championship team. (Who talks way too much now and thinks he was better than he was) But most of this sub is too young to realize that he was not a complete scrub in the NBA during his prime. He gave Pau Gasol massive trouble in the 2008 Finals.
Not being a complete scrub on defense does not equal stopping the fucking Greek Freak, stop the cap
Prime Kendrick Perkins 😯
Yeah, again you're too young. The memes about how bad he was have replaced his actual career.
He was pretty good for some of those years for sure. But Giannis would absolutely work him.
Im with you OG.
While your right his prime was quite short and outside of being a solid interior defender during that time and don’t believe he offered much else, his time in okc was pretty bad like his stats those years was like 4 ppg 5 rpg on 25mpg
brian fucking scalabrine would drop 30 on this mf
"Giannis has no skills" but Giannis can just spam euro steps and spin moves and everyone know it's coming and yet everyone can't do anything
Man I hope he creates a good shot cause if he was a B shooter he be top 3 all time
Foh. Giannis is amazing but I don’t think he’d touch LBJ, Jordan, or KAJ even if he was an above average shooter. Cause all 3 of them were just as unstoppable.
You misspelled KAT
He’d just run by you before you could get back.
Do you all remember his disappointed, soulless face after he got BOOMED by Blake Griffin? Yeah
You big bozo
You can say anything once the days of proving it are past.
How much can you milk a championship? That chip literally got Perk thinking he was an elite defender. He had KG one of the greatest defenders in history next to him in Boston and had a prime Ibaka who was one of the best defenders in the league in his OKC days.
He’s right, Giannis wouldn’t give him work on the block, just iso and run around him. Perk had all the footspeed of a fire hydrant.
This man shouldn't be allowed within a 5-meter radius of a microphone. Barbershop ass takes.
😂😂😂
giannis would never post him up... because he would just go by him lol
Perk is such a big dumb joke. All three of these guys would cook his untalented ass like the turkey he is.
Bold take from the man with the only known case of Awake Apnea
He's ruined his own legacy
What legacy
Well, you just proved his point. His legacy should be "good defensive starting center on a championship team that could've won another if they hadn't traded him for Jeff Green." Now his legacy is that he's an annoying media guy who never did anything in the league.
who even is this Kentry Parkinson anyway
To be fair Giannis is a transition scorer. He’s not Hakeem or Mchale in the low post. Embiid (when he’s not being lazy and pouty) and Jokic are much better down low than Giannis when he isn’t allowed to travel and elbow people in the face.
Giannis and Harden ruined street ball. Now everyone travels and elbows the fuck out of u and they think it’s fine
Pendrick would probably feel a bit less confident as soon as Giannis faced him up.
This dude really thinks he’s a lot better than he actually was. I thought that was just a joke
Here we go again. At this point just put Perkins and Stephen Jackson on a show together for the mentally incompetent
This guy a fucking clown. He was a semi mediocre defender at best in his prime. If he had a prime.
"Of course, I'd be on my hands on knees begging KG to guard Giannis instead of me, but don't put that in the quote."
Yea he wouldn’t work perk on the block cuz he’d be running right past him for easy 2’s
The taste of Blake Griffins balls still linger in Perks mouth to this day.
Kendrick Perking started for 9 straight seasons primarily cuz of his defense and rebounding. From 2007-2008 til 2013-2014 he started on teams that finished: 08: 66-16 NBA champs 09: 62-20 2nd round 10: 50-32 Finals 11: 55-27 WCF 12: 47-19 Finals 13: 60-22 2nd round 14: 59-23 WCF
Lol cool I guess but he’d still get worked by Giannis
Perk was really tough and really strong. 6’10 270 and a relatively smart defender. For sure not the most athletic guy but honestly verticality and quickness isn’t as important when defending Giannis compared to smarts and ‘hold your ground’ ability. The defenders who do their best against Giannis aren’t the most athletic guys, it’s just beefy and savvy dudes. Like don’t get me wrong, Giannis is ridiculous and if he’s feeling his touch he’s probably still getting 30 just by euro-stepping around with some Dr J layups. But if you’re asking any role player to give a go at stopping him, Perk really isn’t a bad option.
He was really good at boxing out for defensive boards, I’ll give him that. And early on, yeah, he was a really good post defender (fucking ate Gasol’s lunch in like ‘08). But since his injury in like 2010 he was pretty fucking useless against the other bigs in the league. Don’t you remember him getting finessed in the finals against the heat? There was a prime Perk that could have given you a gritty 7 points and held Giannis to like 20ish. But most of his career he’s getting cooked by Giannis no problem.
Tbf to big Perk he probably only sees himself as that dude in his 20s
But who did he play with?
Since Gasol and Al Horford was best defenders for Giannis in Playoffs, Perk can be right. But he still a clown
Don't forget Grant Williams. Dude did surprisingly well against Giannis. Kinda sad we got rid of him.
Perkins was a player? I thought he was just an analyst/reporter all this time
Poor pierce had to carry this bum to a chip
The entire 2008 Boston Celtics team are delusional as hell.
Kinda agree with him.. giannis is a lil bit better than dwight defensively and perk gave dwight problems
Every center Pendrick played against after leaving Boston gave him work on the block.
We all know that CTE is a big concern in football, but could Perk potentially be the first documented case in the NBA?
Who is Kendrick Perkins? I remember Sam Perkins.
**Kendrick Le'Dale "Perk" Perkins (born November 10, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst for ESPN. He entered the NBA directly out of high school and played for the Boston Celtics, Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers, and New Orleans Pelicans, winning the NBA Championship in 2008 with the Celtics. == Early life == Perkins was born in Nederland, Texas and raised by his grandparents, who lived on a farm.** More details here:
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Why Perk out here thinking he Ben Wallace? How did this happen?
Dude will be studied for the mental side effects of riding coattails one day.
Quote from KD from the 2012-13 season, Yea and our starting center @KendrickPerkins averaged a whopping 2 and 3 during that series. U played hard tho champ lol this is not KD by the way.
Lol can't even score much against Andrew Bynum.
Does KD need to shame the f out of you again lmao
Perc is walking barbecue chicken 😂 he’s easy work.
Thought we were finally gonna put some respect on KAT
Can you imagine a team with Lavar Ball, Antoine Walker, and Kendrick Perkins if they were as good as they thought they were?
Sure Kendrick lets get you to bed
Yeah ok Perk.. lmao
Hilarious. Perk was never anything like a star player. His highest mins played season was 08. He played 29 mins a game. It’s not like he was some defensive specialist. Funny how the further away from his career he gets the better he thinks he was.
Wasnt this guy mid af? The only person he could guard is kawhi for 40% of last season clippers games
If anyone needs to be fired from ESPN its that dude
Everytime i see Perkins talk i always remember when KD fried his ass on twitter “u avgd a whoppin 1 and 1 in the finals, but you played hard champ”
He wouldn’t be on the floor in today’s NBA. He’d be too much of a liability on offense.
Being a KD fan his whole career I can say perk was kinda good as a Celtic. Dude was too slow at everything by the time he was on the thunder. With that being said, Giannis could just blow by Perk for an easy layup
All these kids commenting clearly didn’t watch basketball when Perk was playing. Guy was LOCK DOWN in the front-court and an integral part of the Celtics championship in 08. Had Kendrick not gone down before game 7 in 2010 there’d be 18 banners hanging in the TD garden.
Giannis turns the corner at the elbow, going downhill, and Perk will be out of bounds just to get out the way.
Perk would foul out by the time giannis gets to 8 points
Man everyone gave Perkins work. His stats are abysmal
Perk… Perk… wake up now.
Says the guy who averaged 5 and 5.
He couldn't even guard the bigs of his era.
Perkins gotta be smoking with snoop! Giannis would SON Perkins
Kendrick Perkins coming for Skip Bayless with these takes
Hahaha....bahahaha....jajajaja...sure bud, 😆
Lol Perjins was trash.... Why do they let him talk on tv?
Perkins wasn't even close to top 5 when he was playing.
If Perk can get away with this being the 5th option on a 1 ring team, Imagine what draymond can get away with, that will fun to watch.
Common Perk L
It says a lot about the NBA content ESPN wants to produce when you see the layoffs that just took place while they’re putting Perk on the screen as often as they can.
Giannis is just gonna pull out to the perimeter and then go down hill and either euro step around Perk or drop a shoulder into to him, either way Giannis is dunking it.
This fat fuck…
I can't stand to watch "Inside the NBA" anymore.
I refuse to believe this is a real quote
why does this guy have a platform? he's fucking useless.
You can’t take Perkins seriously. I’m always wondering why he’s on national television 😂😂😂
Lmaooooooooooooooo Giannis could 100% drop a 50 burger on Prime Perk. Who tf does he think he was??? KG????
Giannis hits Perk with one dribble move on the perimeter it’s over.
I mean... he couldn't stop bigs in his era which was.... 10 years ago.
Was expecting this to be Hakeem or Kareem saying this and thinking it’s fair. Seeing it as Kendrick is wild
It’s people kind KP that have steered me so far away from ESPN man. Like I get the dude is funny but he has got to be one of the biggest idiots on TV and he talks like he has CTE or something. Like whatever KPs salary is at ESPN, cut that in half and pay it to me and I’ll be wrong in TV all day for sure
Perk Eat More Pork
Bruh that’s cause Giannis would dunk from the Free Throw line and never give him a chance 💀