re: Haven’t heard from K Perkins lately

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He’s a liar. He was a liar. He just lied, man. He lied to me.

Perkins is talking here about Dell Demps, the Pelicans’ general manager while Perkins was there in 2015-16. Perkins says Demps “told me when I got to the Pelicans ‘Wow, we never had a leader like you. I appreciate you, we want you to retire here, we want you to be here the next two or three years, blah blah blah.’

When Perkins’ contract was up that summer, there was no two-year deal for the vet minimum Perkins was hoping for. Only a call from Demps, who said, “I think we’re going to move in a different direction.”

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I always assumed this is why. Sour grapes that we didn’t offer him 2 more years when his career was obviously over (he played in 1 NBA game total after his stint with us).