Watch the latest video. View All. View Kendrick's stats at NBA. It's a wild movie. All day. I think the first thing is chemistry. That's the good thing about our team, we're not selfish and guys give up themselves even though guys would love to have point games every night, it's just buying into the system and doing your role and doing what we need to do to take it to the next level. At the end of the day, when you win as a team everybody gets a piece of the pie and you don't have anything to worry about on an individual note.
That's the great thing about it. However, he then went overseas for his professional career, according to The Oklahoman. Then a few years later, Perkins lost his mom too. Minix was later shot in the neck by her close friend, according to The Oklahoman. It occurred while she was working at a beauty salon. Minix and her friend had been arguing off and on for a couple of weeks before the shooting. She was ultimately on life support for six days before she died. Perkins then did not have parents at just five years old, which led to him ultimately moving in with his grandparents.
Kendrick Perkins is a well-known personality around the NBA. Stats courtesy of Basketball Reference. Presti, while loyal to the guys he brings in to OKC, isn't a dummy. He knows talent when he sees it, and he's proven that he can masterfully craft a team from the ground up.
Monetarily speaking, using the amnesty clause on Perkins would make a lot of sense. The amnesty clause can only be used once and on a player who was on contract before the CBA was signed in Even with the cap relief the Thunder would receive by amnestying Perk, the current free agent options at center mostly fall into two categories.
The first being good centers who would cost more than OKC can spend i. Dwight Howard and Al Jefferson and the second being affordable players who aren't quite starter material e. Drafting a young replacement also sounds good in theory, but it would be risky, to say the least, for an unproven player to immediately see big minutes for a contending team,. I suppose a trade could possibly worked out for Perkins, but finding a suitor would be challenging considering his lowered value and hefty price tag.
All things considered, it may be a bit rash at this point to amnesty Perkins, even though his play last season at times was appalling. We don't know if he has anything left in the tank or if he can bounce back to his previous form, but we do know that Presti has a pretty solid handle on what's best for the Thunder.
We've seen Presti help morph this team from a win laughingstock into a win powerhouse in just a few seasons. So I don't think him wanting to keep the Kendrick Perkins Project going is a matter of his pride blinding his better judgment. Rather, I think it's a matter of his dedication and patience to ride out some bumps that come along with the heightened expectations for this Thunder team.
This isn't a case of Presti refusing to accept defeat.
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