The Warriors weren’t happy with Kendrick Perkins in Game 2 of the NBA Finals
"I don’t think I’m the problem that they want, though."
Cavaliers center Kendrick Perkins has yet to log a minute of playing time during the NBA Finals, but he still managed to upset Cleveland’s opponent in Game 2.
According to ESPN’s Chris Haynes, members of the Golden State Warriors were bothered by Perkins’s reluctance to move his legs away from point guard Steph Curry at the end of the third quarter Sunday.
With 2.9 seconds remaining in the quarter, Curry hoisted a shot attempt from behind the arc and bumped into Perkins as he slowly backpedaled on the sideline. Curry turned around, Perkins — who was sitting on the Cavs bench — stood up, and the pair exchanged words after the buzzer sounded.
“I was just sitting there and he landed on my leg,” Perkins told the Boston Globe‘s Gary Washburn. “He was standing over my leg, and I don’t understand what people want me to do. He was like, ‘What you on?’ and I’m like, ‘What you mean what I’m on?’ I’m sitting over here.”
Teammates from both sides immediately diffused the situation.
Per Haynes, “the fear was Curry could have sprained an ankle or suffered a knee injury.” Curry suffered both a right ankle and a left knee injury during the regular season. He did not have much to say about the incident with Perkins, calling it “much ado about nothing” after the game.
“I’m not going to get into it,” he later told Haynes. “No comment.”
Perkins, however, had a little more to say.
“I don’t know why people keep wanting to pick battles this way,” he told Washburn. “Might want to choose that s— wisely, man, than f—— with me. I don’t think I’m the problem that they want, though, might want to pick another battle.”
