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Barry Jackson: ESPN's Dave McMenamin said Rich Paul told him this afternoon that there will be no LeBron news today and that LeBron doesn't know what he's going to do and Rich Paul doesn't know what LeBron is going to do. Kendrick Perkins said Paul told him that money has nothing to do with the decision and all suitors will pay him the same amount.
Heat Central: Kendrick Perkins says he heard at Fanatics Fest that Miami was at the TOP of LeBrons list: “I heard that Miami is at the top of the list…. If Miami wants some real motion, Giannis already done his press conference, he has to pick up the damn phone. That’s what LeBron James wants.”
Jaylen Brown: "Let's just stop with the anonymous sources. Chat, the anonymous sources is crazy. Him saying that executive and a scout, that said these things in an anonymous source, Stephen A. Smith saying an anonymous source, Kendrick Perkins saying an anonymous source, or somebody texting, like what is with these people and these anonymous sources, bro? They don't see how unethical that is and just stating that on live TV. It's like somebody saying a rumor in front of millions of people and not even taking in the account that amount of damage that rumor could do. But they don't even know if it's true or not. It's just a source."
In 2017, while working as a sideline reporter in Cleveland, she started the podcast Road Trippin’ alongside then-active Cavaliers players Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye. Ex-NBA center and ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins later became an official cohost in 2024. Road Trippin’ is considered one of the first and longest-running player-led podcasts. “It changed the trajectory of my career,” Clifton told Front Office Sports about the podcast. “For a long time, that was what people recognized me for. It was: ‘You’re Allie Clifton from Road Trippin’.’ It wasn’t the five years that I had done with the Cleveland Cavaliers as a sideline [reporter]. It wasn’t even my first couple of years in Los Angeles being a host for the Los Angeles Lakers. … When I’m able to kind of take a step back now and just understand kind of the fuel and the drive behind that and what it has served in terms of my career so far, it’s right at the top.”
Kendrick Perkins: "They could come out with all the reports that they want to, but again, some of the stuff, and I'm not saying he's a criminal, but I'm saying the streaming and stuff like that, that has been a turnoff to a lot of people. But if you're Brad Stevens, you cannot bring that energy back into your locker room because if I'm Jaylen Brown, I feel some type of way coming back and I'm saying, 'Well damn, you didn't try to trade me twice. How you expect me to act?' I just came off the best season of my career and here I was on the chopping block."
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Kendrick Perkins: Teams were asking Memphis to attach picks in order to take Ja Morant, not the other way around. They were asking Memphis, "Hey man, attach picks with Ja and we'll take him."
Kendrick Perkins: "I like Memphis. I actually love Memphis. I love the city of Memphis. I don't even want to get into it with the Memphians and all that stuff, man. I got people out there, I was going to school there. I'm just telling you what I'm hearing, so they don't be on my ass like back pockets. Listen, a lot of these guys and these prospects are trying to avoid getting drafted by Memphis. I'm just telling you this, real talk. What y'all thoughts on this? I'm just telling you, this is some real shit that is happening."
Kendrick Perkins: I didn't get this from no inside source with the Celtics, but I just feel like at this point Jaylen Brown is somewhat talking himself right up out of that organization with his live stream. And people may say ‘man, Perk, you overreacting or you tripping’. No, I'm not. Because Allie you've been in locker rooms, you played at a high level in college, you covered at a high level. That's why you got all them Emmys. Danny Green, three-time champion. And y'all know like I know that podcasting, that was not going to be tolerated in our locker room because it breaks a trust. Like the most important thing that you need when you're trying to go win a championship is you need trust.
Shams Charania: ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins – 14-year NBA veteran and 2008 champion – has agreed to become the men's basketball General Manager of HBCU Jackson State, as well as a connection to its broadcast and journalism program, per Perkins: "I'm thankful for this opportunity to impact young lives and pour back into my community." Perkins worked closely with Jackson State men's basketball coach Trey Johnson and vice president and director of athletics Ashley Robinson to finalize the new role.
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Kendrick Perkins: "I voted for Mitch Johnson for coach of the year. I thought he did an outstanding job in the regular season, even throughout the course of the playoffs. The number one thing was his substitution pattern was horrible throughout the Finals. I go back to Game 3, why was Dylan Harper on the bench in and out of the lineup so much in that fourth quarter when they had that collapse? I mean in Game 4, he was 21 points, eight for 12 from the field, plus 12 on the stat sheet, and I just didn't understand. They had no answer for that young man, he should have been in the game. One could say Victor Wembanyama played too many extended minutes at times, that comes on coaching. Big Shot, you just highlighted earlier in the show about Harrison Barnes and not really getting quality minutes there. I thought on the defensive side of the basketball, he could have done a better job. Once you see Jalen Brunson, Jalen Brunson had too many spurts where he was just busting their ass. At some point when you see that this motherf*cker got it going, somebody got to beat him. I'm trapping him until he gives up the ball and he's not getting it back. If they do make a play and make a shot, you got to show me that you can do it again."