Kendrick Perkins involved in altercation at son's AAU basketball game after player was allegedly body slammed

Former NBA halfway and existent ESPN expert Kendrick Perkins was progressive successful an altercation astatine 1 of his son’s caller AAU hoops games successful Norman, Oklahoma.

Perkins is known on-screen arsenic idiosyncratic who doesn’t caput having a verbal statement astir sports with his colleagues, but a video from the AAU crippled via TMZ Sports shows the 6-foot-10 large antheral being held backmost arsenic helium screamed astatine idiosyncratic not seen successful the video.

Perkins coaches his son’s YPG Perkins team, and things were getting chippy against their opponent, Swaveway Playaz. However, a non-basketball foul sent the 2008 NBA champion implicit the edge.

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ESPN's Kendrick Perkins says planetary players person "completely taken over" the NBA, arguing there's nary anticipation for Americans to reclaim the league's apical spot for the adjacent decade. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

Perkins tin beryllium seen yelling toward someone, portion coaches connected his squad were pushing him distant to alleviate the tension.

As the video went viral, Perkins responded to it connected societal media.

"Damn right, and it astir apt won’t beryllium the past time!" Perkins wrote connected X. "I’m going to support each azygous kid successful my enactment similar they’re my own."

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Perkins besides addressed the altercation during an quality connected ESPN’s "The Pat McAfee Show," wherever helium made the stance helium was trying to support his players.

"We’re successful a tournament; it’s a heated game. 17U, they’re going backmost and distant oregon whatever," Perkins said. "We extremity up winning the game, each close cool. The different team, they had this feline who’s similar 7-foot, 400 pounds. After the game, helium comes and helium assemblage slams 1 of my kids who plays for my team. I enactment seated and past I get up ‘cause everybody’s moving around. The players, they’re astir to fight. So, arsenic a liable proprietor of the organization, I get up and, ‘Hey man, y’all request to chill,’ X-Y-Z. I’m grabbing my players. I archer the manager of the different team, ‘Hey bro, get your players. I got mine.’ He pops off. ‘I ain’t getting nothing, I ain’t getting nothing. Who the hellhole are you.’

Cleveland Cavaliers halfway Kendrick Perkins reacts successful the 4th fourth against the New York Knicks astatine Quicken Loans Arena successful Cleveland, Ohio, connected April 11, 2018. (David Richard/USA TODAY Sports)

"The kid that got slammed to the ground, his parents weren’t astatine the game. So, his parents trusted maine with their child. So, I gotta support that kid arsenic if he’s mine. I’m going to basal up for him, adjacent though I didn’t spell implicit determination with atrocious intentions, I gotta marque definite that kid is OK and helium makes it backmost location to his parents. He’s a young man, but again, helium plays successful my organization. So, I gotta marque sure, by immoderate means necessary, that he’s safe."

Before Perkins was on-air talking astir the NBA, the Texas autochthonal played 14 seasons successful the league, helping the Boston Celtics triumph the 2008 title.

He spent 8 of those seasons successful Boston, averaging 6.4 points and 6.1 rebounds per game, processing into a starting halfway for his squad.

Cleveland Cavaliers halfway Kendrick Perkins plays during the 2nd 4th of crippled 4 successful the 2018 NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors astatine Quicken Loans Arena successful Cleveland, Ohio, connected June 8, 2018. The Warriors defeated the Cavaliers 108-85 to implicit a four-game sweep. (Kyle Terada/USA TODAY Sports)

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During the 2010-11 season, Perkins was traded from the Celtics to the Oklahoma City Thunder, wherever helium spent 5 seasons. He besides played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and New Orleans Pelicans earlier retiring from the league.

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