Let me offer the following disclaimer. In an uncontrolled setting, there are a minuscule amount of people roaming this very planet that wouldn't immediately wet themselves after having drawn the ire of Kendrick Perkins. If anyone on the Golden State Warriors were to catch him outside, for instance, running in the opposite direction would probably be the smartest strategy to employ. There's just very little doubt that if met in the "right" circumstances, of which there are many, that he's the wrong one to fuck with. Those circumstances, however, don't include an NBA Finals in which he's serving as nothing more than a sharply dressed scare tactic that couldn't even frighten the neighborhood children into taking only one piece of Halloween candy. I don't know if Big Perk is under the illusion that Cleveland is playing their home games at Rucker Park, but they'd pretty much have to be for Warriors to even consider taking the slightest of heed to his empty threats. We're not talking about a scene out of Mad Men or a mobster movie, for when it comes to a professional basketball court there is nothing all that intimidating about a man of any size, strength, or stature sitting on the sidelines in a suit. If that wasn't made clear when Draymond Green basically implied that a skirt and pom-poms should be part of Kendrick Perkins gameday attire then it was damn sure evidenced by someone with the build of high school distance runner showing absolutely no hesitation in going forehead-to-sternum with the biggest and baddest spectator in the stands around a bench full of his peers...
I giggled when I read that quote from Kendrick Perkins, and it's sadly because he's basically become a parody of what I'm assuming he was meant to be for a Cleveland Cavaliers team that never had any intention of letting him touch a basketball when it mattered. If his role is to summon the insecurities of the opponent then he honestly might be better of giving up his court-side seat to the internet troll that was ultimately responsible for the creation of KD's burner account. If nothing else, this series has proven that his tough talk is about as hollow as J.R. Smith's head, and that's a bad look for a guy who currently offers little else.
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