In most sports, the greats of yesterday do not want to admit that today’s stars may well have them. But in no other sport, former players do not express opinions as easily as in the NBA. And a former player who became Kendrick Perkins, who spent 14 seasons in the NBA, did not hesitate to tell the world how he thinks he would have succeeded in a match against the center of Denver Nuggets Star Center Nokola.
Tip, Perkins thinks he would have succeeded very well.
“Jokic would not have wanted this smoke,” said Perkins during NBA Count On ESPN before the Boston Celtics-New York Knicks match on Friday. “Kobe [Bryant] I said I was the best post-post defender in the League. “”
Perkins must have forgotten that NBA fans are nothing but diligent when it comes to keeping the receipts. A fan dug images of a Nuggets game, with Jokic in his recruit year, facing a 31-year-old perkins, who was in his second season, in 2015-2016.
It was not great for Perkins.
To be fair, it was not Young Perkins, who had an average of 2.0 blocks per game at the age of 24 for the Boston Celtics during the 2008-09 season. Maybe that Perkins would have given Jokic’s today’s version certain troubles.
What immediately prevails over Perkins’ argument is the fact that many players today, including those who won defensive player prizes for the year, could not slow the triple MVP.
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