When you get into media you can go a couple of different routes.
Kendrick Perkins decided to take the Stephen A. Smith/Skip Bayless route. Draymond and JJ Redick are going the more Charles Barkley route.
There is nothing new about anything Draymond or Kendrick Perkins are doing.
With that being said it is entertaining watching them go at it. Perkins decided he wanted to go viral so he wore a Hamburgler outfit after Game 1 of NBA Finals that the Celtics won.
ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins tried to make a point with his outfit on Friday morning, but it backfired badly.
On the latest edition of First Take, Perkins wore a prison-inspired outfit to highlight his point about how the Celtics put the Warriors in jail during the second half of Game 1 during the NBA Finals.
“Molly, I’m telling you, they reopened Alcatraz because they had to find room to put the Golden State Warriors…because you know what happened last night? They got the handcuffs put on them in the fourth quarter.”
Perkins was immediately mocked by Stephen A. Smith and NBA fans over his ridiculous prison outfit.
The Warriors don’t forget anything so Draymond called him a fool after winning the championship.
“You got fools like Kendrick Perkins dressing like a clown. Come up here in a jail suit. And then you leave the game early tonight. Stand on your word, brother.”
No word on if Perkins left the game early or not last night, but I doubt any of the legendary Celtics wanted to hang around and watch the Warriors celebrate at the Garden.
Once again there is no such thing as new media.
What is new is that there are more outlets for athletes to tell their stories, but that isn’t really new that has been a thing since social media became a place where people got their news.
Flip the pages for the videos of Kendrick in his prison gear and Draymond’s responses.