It’s a ducking disagreement 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 not likely 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. “In the event you go publicly to say one thing like that, and I attain out to you privately, a minimum of 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 buddy of mine as nicely, he was there. Scal was there and Paul [Pierce] was there. There was nonetheless 11 different guys lacking. And to be trustworthy with you, if I might’ve acquired an invitation, which I didn’t — I didn’t know we was speculated to — however anyhow, 9 occasions out of 10, I might’ve turned it down.
“It’s not as a result of I don’t have love for the 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 house.
Whereas Scalabrine calls Celtics recreation, the place he’s far much less prone to be vital, Perkins, in his nationwide position, has the ground to be much more vital.
It’s potential Perkins ruffled some feathers — and the pun is coming — when he referred to Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla having a hen mind.
“They’ve two Joe Mazzullas,” Perkins stated in Jaunary, as transcribed by Boston.com. “They’ve the one which acquired the philosophy of ‘we’re going to rise up extra 3s than you.’ After they do, after they hit them, he appears nice.” Then you’ve gotten the opposite Joe Mazzulla, who simply stands over there.
“And also you marvel, if you happen to take his mind out and you set it in a hen, the hen goes to begin flying backward. You bought that Joe Mazzulla. why I say that? As a result of he doesn’t get these guys open appears”
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 instructed him he would name him again however didn’t achieve this.
“If that’s the best way you are 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, if you happen to really feel that method, OK, you saying that publicly,” Perkins stated, “so once I name you and also you don’t decide up, and you then inform me you’ll name me later and also you don’t need to have a grown-man dialog about it, and also you at all times decide up some other time, I acquired an issue with that.”
He added: “Proper now, I really feel such as you’re ducking me.”