Wyc Grousbeck just confirmed hilarious truth every Celtics fan already knew

During a recent appearance on Jeff Teague’s “Club 520 Podcast,” former Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck confirmed that ex Cs big man, now ESPN studio personality, Kendrick Perkins was not invited to the team’s NBA Championship parade last June.

“I love Perk, to this day,” Grousbeck exclaimed. “He wasn’t invited to our parade last year, that is true. [It was] because he was giving people a lot of s---. You know, I had family members of players saying, ‘If that guy’s in the parade, then we’re not in the parade.’” 

Kendrick Perkins has as weird habit of publically hating on the Celtics

Since joining the ESPN team, Perkins has made a habit of criticising the Celtics and their personnel. While it’s quite literally his job to generate views and drive traffic towards the station’s content, his willingness to attack members of the organization is strange. Typically, the Celtics have a family-type feel. Former players will support current and incoming players, that sort of thing. For example, Head Coach Joe Mazzulla made an effort to invite former Celtics to the Auerbach Center to be around the team during the 2023 preseason and keep the Celtics' tradition alive.

Ironically, Mazzulla was a target of one of Perk’s hot takes. After a January 2024 loss to the Denver Nuggets, the former Celtics center went on national television and called Mazzulla a “bird brain.”

Prior to Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown eventually leading the team to the 2024 NBA title, Perkins was also a loud member of the “break up the Jays” conglomerate. He’d harp on the idea that the front office needed to trade one of them in order for Boston to truly be a contender, or go online and try and diminish their partnership.

It’s not at all surprising that neither the organization nor the players and their families wanted Perkins to be invited to their celebration.

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that they didn’t want him around, either. Last fall, Perk was reportedly banned from Banner Night, despite wanting to be in attendance with other Celtics legends to see Banner 18 be raised to TD Garden’s rafters, according to The Sun, US.

“He was asking everyone to get a spot at TD Garden, to be there for this moment of history, and to try to soften up the relationship that is broken,” one source who works in the organization told Steve Brenner and David Scott.

Perkins denied the story to me on Twitter/X at the time, saying he had no plans of being in Boston for the occasion and never reached out to anyone within the organization.

Even if he had been interested in being there, it likely wouldn’t have been greenlit.

“The hatchet won’t be buried anytime soon, and the respect for him is below zero since those comments and most of us don’t even want to hear about him as he said things that were not justified and that were bad, and felt like throwing s*** at our faces, disrespecting our work and the whole organization,” one player of the 2024-25 roster explained to The U.S. Sun in October.