It’s a ducking confrontation amongst former Celtics teammates.
A feud has exploded between former 2008 champions after Brian Scalabrine claimed the Celtics purposefully didn’t invite Kendrick Perkins to be a part of the 2024 championship celebration in Boston.
“No, no, no, no, no, no,” Scalabrine stated on his SiriusXM present when requested if Perkins had been invited, as transcribed by Boston.com. “Huge scarlet letter. … It’s probably not an open-arms factor with Kendrick Perkins.”
Perkins, now an ESPN analyst, clapped again at Scalabrine, labeling him a “coward.”
“Proper now, I really feel like Scal is a coward,” Perkins stated on the Boston present “Felger and Mazz” on Monday. “When you go publicly to say one thing like that, and I attain out to you privately, not less than name me again.
“Was I the one 2008 member lacking from the duck boat? No, I wasn’t. [Eddie] Home, my man, he was there. Leon Powe, nice good friend of mine as effectively, he was there. Scal was there and Paul [Pierce] was there. There was nonetheless 11 different guys lacking. And to be sincere with you, if I might’ve received an invitation, which I didn’t — I didn’t know we was presupposed to — however in any case, 9 occasions out of 10, I might’ve turned it down.
“It’s not as a result of I don’t have love for town of Boston, as a result of I do. It’s not as a result of I don’t have love for the group, as a result of I do. … However that’s not our second. That’s 2024′s second. Let these guys have their second.”
Scalabrine and Perkins gained a championship with the Celtics in 2008 and served as teammates from 2005-10, and are each now within the media area.
Whereas Scalabrine calls Celtics sport, the place he’s far much less prone to be vital, Perkins, in his nationwide position, has the ground to be way more vital.
It’s attainable Perkins ruffled some feathers — and the pun is coming — when he referred to Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla having a chook mind.
“They’ve two Joe Mazzullas,” Perkins stated in Jaunary, as transcribed by Boston.com. “They’ve the one which received the philosophy of ‘we’re going to rise up extra 3s than you.’ After they do, once they hit them, he appears to be like nice.” Then you have got the opposite Joe Mazzulla, who simply stands over there.
“And also you surprise, in the event you take his mind out and you set it in a chook, the chook goes to start out flying backward. You bought that Joe Mazzulla. You recognize why I say that? As a result of he doesn’t get these guys open appears to be like”
Perkins defined that whereas he nonetheless has love for the Celtics, he considers the Celtics chapter of his life closed and he’s moved onto his profession.
He stated Scalabrine informed him he would name him again however didn’t achieve this.
“If that’s the best way you’re feeling, and that’s what you’re saying is possibly too be true, I don’t know this, it could be, I don’t know, in the event you really feel that method, OK, you saying that publicly,” Perkins stated, “so once I name you and also you don’t choose up, and then you definately inform me you’ll name me later and also you don’t wish to have a grown-man dialog about it, and also you at all times choose up every other time, I received an issue with that.”
He added: “Proper now, I really feel such as you’re ducking me.”
