Kendrick Perkins on Biography, Basketball, and Black History

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Edge of Sports, we speak to 14-year NBA veteran and basketball analyst Kendrick Perkins about his new book, The Education of Kendrick Perkins, co-written with Seth Rogoff. We talk about Beaumont, his upbringing, and some NBA basketball. We also speak about Tony Dungy and his history of bigotry covered in “kindness.”

We have a Just Stand Up award for Cyd Ziegler, who uncovered Tony Dungy’s speech at the March For Life protest in DC, and we have a Just Sit Down award for the right-wing trolls who are attacking anyone who dares tell the truth about Dungy's bigotry.

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Kendrick Perkins

Twitter: @KendrickPerkins

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250280343/theeducationofkendrickperkins

Zirin, Tony Dungy Is a Right-Wing Zealot and the NFL and NBC Don’t Care

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tony-dungy-march-life/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we are talking to Perk,
0:17.0	former NBA player, current ESPN host, Kendrick Perkins, who has a new book along with
0:23.3	Seth Rogoff called The Education of Kendrick Perkins. A lot to ask him, and I have a feeling
0:29.7	I might have a question about Shannon Sharp, Dylan Brooks, T. Morant, Stephen Adams. Oh my goodness.
0:36.5	I'm just going to ask Perk what he thought, and then we're going to get into the book.
0:40.9	Next, I got some words to say about Tony Dungeon.
0:43.7	No surprise there.
0:45.3	We've also got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down Awards and more.
0:49.4	But first, let's talk to Kendrick Perkins.
0:55.0	So we'll just start right off, but, you know, I would be guilty of malpractice, Perk,
0:59.8	if I didn't say these words to you and just ask you your response.
1:03.2	Just real quick.
1:04.3	Okay.
1:05.1	Shannon Sharp, T. Morant, Dylan Brooks, Stephen Adams, your thoughts.
1:10.4	I love it. I love it. You know why? Let me tell you why.
1:14.7	Like, obviously, no one is going to throw punches and no one is going to get hurt.
1:20.8	But I just think it brings that good competitive vibe and nature back to the game of basketball.
1:26.7	Like, it's that old school 90s where you have something to look for.
1:31.3	And then guess what? I think that even helped the Lakers, you know,
1:35.3	win the game last night. Like that energy, that
1:38.3	that they needed that Shannon Shaw bought on the sideline, that's what you need.
1:43.3	Like I'm talking out of the jersey swaps and stuff like that.
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