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Perk's bottom so full of pain
Kendrick Perkins can live with being dunked on as part of the game. He can even handle being tweeted about being dunked on.
But LeBron James' Twitter reaction to Blake Griffin's did-you-see-that dunk over Perkins didn't sit well with the Oklahoma City Thunder center.
Perkins found himself in Griffin's career highlight reel when the Los Angeles Clippers forward soared over him, absorbed contact and threw the ball down into the basket, fingers grazing the rim, in the Clippers' 112-100 win Jan. 30.
Perkins then found himself on Twitter, where James, among others, could not contain his amazement over what he had seen.
"Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! Wow! I guess I'm No. 2 now. Move over #6," James tweeted, apparently referring to his own dunk the day before over Chicago Bulls point guard John Lucas III being relegated behind Griffin's poster-quality jam.
Perkins told Yahoo! Sports that he didn't appreciate that.
"You don't see Kobe (Bryant) tweeting," Perkins said, according to the report. "You don't see Michael Jordan tweeting. If you're an elite player, plays like that don't excite you.
"At the end of the day, the guys who are playing for the right reasons who are trying to win championships are not worrying about one play. They also are not tweeting about themselves talking about going down to No. 2," Perkins added, according to the report. "I just feel [James] is always looking for attention and he wants the world to like him."
Perkins told Yahoo! Sports he respected Griffin for not making a spectacle of the moment. But if Griffin goes at the rim again the next time the Clippers and Thunder meet, Perkins said he won't back down.
"If I was in the same position, in the same rotation, I'm going to jump again and again and again," Perkins said, according to Yahoo! Sports. "A lot of people are afraid of humiliation or don't know how to handle embarrassment or would even get embarrassed. I don't care."
"That's my job," Perkins added, according to the report. "How will my teammates look at me if next time I just back out of the way and just let him dunk when I'm supposed to be defensive-minded, a shot-blocker? That would be a coward move on me. He'd just have to dunk on me again."
Perk's bottom so full of pain
nothing wrong with what he said. it's the nba. people get dunked on. people who defend the basket even moreso.
for good measure
Perkins is right, even though he might have said it out of butthurt kinda. LBJ is just a childish player
Agreed, for the most part. Callin' James out like that, though, somewhat contradicted what he said about "not caring" what people did or said.
[shrug]
yeah he didn't have to put james in it at all. but he probably just doesn't like james going back to his days on the celtics whenever he was in the east and had to deal with all the lebron hype even though they (the celtics) were the better team
True. I like the guy for contesting, regardless. One of the few that pride themselves on their around-the-rimjobs...so to speak.
Lol that wasnt even a dunk
Perkins is definitely right. People act like dunking on someone is the greatest thing since slavery was abolished (mainly people with darker shades of skin who are African-American decent).
If you're gonna challenge people at the rim you'll eventually get dunked on. However, due to people going crazy when someone gets dunked on, if somebody ever tries to dunk on me and I can't block them, I'm sending them flying.
Sorry in advance [insert random athletic black person's name who tries to dunk on me here] for injuring you, but if your brethren didn't act like wild monkeys everytime someone got posterized that wouldn't have happened.
i got dunked on once. it was at the ymca where for some reason all the good players loved to go whenever they were home from college on summer vacation. i was maybe 18 years old fresh out of high school, these 3 guys show up who all played together for the same college and were maybe 21-23ish. you could tell they had chemistry together by the way they were just running the court. well dude throws a lob to the taller one and me usually being able to out jump everyone thought i would jump up there and surprised everyone by breaking it up. problem was, he threw it pretty high and although i got a hand on the ball, it wasn't enough to snatch it out of the air and come down with it and well, the other guy had TWO hands on the ball. needless to say he dunked me and the ball both
It amazes and baffles me how these so call adults take on to twitter to say everything that's on their mind like a school girl.
ing pathetic. Real men dont tweet.
Duplicate post. Delete please.
Hard to disagree with anything he said. You see him pouting all the time and walking around with a scowl on his face and I guess you don't expect him to just come out and say some real ."You don't see Kobe tweeting. You don't see Michael Jordan tweeting. If you’re an elite player, plays like that don’t excite you. The guys who are playing for the right reasons who are trying to win championships are not worrying about one play."
"They also are not tweeting about themselves talking about going down to No. 2. I just feel [James] is always looking for attention and he wants the world to like him.”
If nothing else, this should teach everyone in the League that ting on Bron is usually a sure-fire way to deflect negative attention.
But real men worry about what other men tweet? Okay.
If Perk's point is players shouldn't care about getting dunked on and should just worry about playing basketball and winning, then he shouldn't care or worry about what anyone says on twitter. It's butthurt. Why even bring up LeBron's tweet? He should practice what he preaches.
He was asked about it by Marc Spears and gave his opinion. He didn't get on Twitter and tweet about how pathetic it was for Lebron to be tweeting about being #2 in the fantasy dunk rankings.
The article doesn't say what specific questions were asked so we don't know if he was asked specifically about LeBron's tweet or he brought it up on his own. But even if he was asked about the tweet, if it didn't matter to him, all he had to say was something along the lines of, "I don't care what anyone thinks. I don't pay attention to tweets. Getting dunked on is part of the game. All that matters is winning." His response to whatever the question was indicates he's mad over a ing tweet.
That and LeBron is one of the most annoying players in the league.
tbh i've never been dunked on yet. Been kinda lucky i guess.
To be honest you're pretty lucky to have played 5a ball as an undersized 4 and having never been dunked ontbh i've never been dunked on yet. Been kinda lucky i guess.
Tbh some 6'4 nig on Carrollton ranchview jumped over our pgs head and dunk tipped it once
His response wasn't an emotional rant. It was specific to Lebron, but still completely logical and relevant to being asked how he feels about how other players responded publicly to the dunk.
He obviously didn't like Lebron's comment and he was perfectly clear about his reasons for that. We don't know if he was specifically asked about Lebron's response, but I don't see how people can dismiss the comment as nothing more than "butthurt" when what he said was actually true.
Umm it was posted here. As a thread you got.
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