Kendrick Perkins Says Jordan Brand Stopped Sending Him Sneakers After Calling LeBron James ‘The GOAT’
According to television personality Kendrick Perkins, the Jordan Brand team is “petty.”
Perkins appeared on ESPN‘s “First Take” alongside host Stephen A. Smith. While there he shared a story about his relationship with Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand.
“MJ is petty as hell,” he said on the broadcast. “Now if you go in my closet, it’s nothing but [Jordans.] I keep J’s on my feet. I was signed to Jordan for about two years while I was playing. OK. I wore J’s throughout the course of a few years of my time at Oklahoma City.” Perkins played for Oklahoma City Thunder from 2011 until 2015.
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“After that, I used to get boxes in the mail all the time of the shoes before they even hit the stores,” he continued. “I started my media career. As soon as I said that LeBron James was the GOAT those boxes stopped coming.”
In 2021, in another First Takes episode, Perkins said that James had surpassed Jordan’s. At the time he was discussing many of James’ entrepreneurial and community-focused pursuits as he was while being an athlete.At other points, Perkins has also James the GOAT — an acronym for Greatest of All Time. But it’s not all roses with the pair.
Last year, after Perkins blasted James, the basketball player unfollowed the television commentator on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. In the aftermath, Perkins blocked James’ phone number.
It’s unclear if the Jordan Brand gifting stopped as a direct result of the comments of Perkins or something else. But it cuts Perkins out of free versions of a number of styles include a series of re-releases that Jordan is queuing up for the first-time ever.
