What Warriors star Steph Curry failed to prove to Kendrick Perkins until 2022 (original) (raw)
Steph Curry is widely considered the best shooter in NBA history and is often credited with altering the trajectory of basketball with his unlimited 3-point range.
While this is a common stance around the NBA, ESPN's Kendrick Perkins shredded the accolades of the four-time NBA champion and future Hall of Famer on Monday's episode of "Get Up." When discussing comments made by WNBA coach Becky Hammon and Warriors star Draymond Green, who both believed that the New York Knicks needed a "1A" player because Jalen Brunson is too small to fit that role, Perkins ended up firing a stray at Curry.
As he addressed Green's comments that denounced the Knicks' success because they are in a weakly perceived Eastern Conference, Perkins fired off the take that Curry wasn't a "1A" kind of player until after the team's 2022 title.
"Let me end on this, Steph Curry didn't prove he was a 1A until he actually won his fourth NBA championship," Perkins said. "That's when he got his Finals MVP as being the 1A. If you want to keep it real, that's why they had to go get Kevin Durant. That's why they had to go get Kevin Durant for the other two after that."
Perkins also wanted to make sure Green didn't discredit the Knicks' path to the NBA Finals, citing the fact that the Warriors benefited from Chris Paul and Kyrie Irving injuries during their first title run in 2015.
"To win a championship, it takes luck," Perkins said. "Last time I checked, Draymond Green, when he was facing the Houston Rockets, didn't Chris Paul when they had control over that series pull his hamstring? Didn't they get to the NBA Finals and Kyrie Irving got injured, I believe it was in Game 1, for their first championship?"
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While Perkins might have a point in the sense that plenty of teams have won titles as a result of injuries plaguing another, it does seem odd that he went after Curry for this particular discourse.