While speaking on the latest Kevin Durant trade developments, KD’s former teammate on the Oklahoma City Thunder and a former NBA Champion with the 2007-08 Boston Celtics, Kendrick Perkins, didn’t hold back his disapproval.
Commenting on his personal verified Twitter account, Perkins said ‘KD requests a trade the day after the draft, all the shit hits the fan and a month later he doubles up and calls for the jobs of the GM and the Coach?’
He would then say that ‘this generation is some goons,’ condemning the pivot from Durant and his camp this past weekend when the 33-year-old 2x former Finals MVP met with Joe Tsai and gave him an ultimatum: either KD gets traded or Sean Marks and Steve Nash go.
This was his tweet in all of its judgmental glory:
So let’s get this straight… KD requests a trade the day after the draft, all the shit hits the fan and a month later he doubles up and calls for the jobs of the GM and the Coach?
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) August 8, 2022
This generation is some goons! Carry on…
A Kevin Durant trade now looks more likely with this power play
Kevin Durant has chosen to either leave the Brooklyn Nets or stage a coup of the whole organization and have its two most prominent non-playing personnel fired. If Joe Tsai wants to maintain any semblance of being in control, KD has to go.
What Durant has done to the Nets is far worse than anything LeBron James has ever done to a franchise–considering he delivered a championship to every organization he has played for–and makes it difficult to want to trade for given the potential cost and the possibility this could happen again.
Still, one must feel for Durant since the Nets had two max contract point guards that seemingly didn’t share the same desire to win a title and had a head coach who looked desperate when he let Kyrie Irving play home games after saying the team wouldn’t accommodate a part-time player.
In the Houdini’s opinion, a KD trade is still a worthwhile gamble for the Cs considering how he took the Golden State Warriors over the top in two of his three years (he was injured his final season in the Bay) and gave his all to that organization despite being constantly criticized for signing with the Dubs in the first place.