Kendrick Perkins’ Untold NBA Stories: Durant–Westbrook OKC Era & HOF Hazing

All The Smoke

The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kendrick Perkins pulls back the curtain on the NBA’s most unforgettable moments, from Hall of Fame hazing stories to the truth about the Durant-Westbrook OKC era.

He also weighs in on Shedeur Sanders, NBA media beefs, his biggest career regrets, what ESPN life is really like, why SGA is giving him Michael Jordan-type vibes.

Plus, we get an inside look into the future of NBA fandom with Head of Threads Connor Hayes!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.0	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.0	Welcome back to Unplugged, presented to you by Draft Kings.
0:07.0	The Crown is yours.
0:08.0	Today we got a special episode right here in LA,
0:11.0	teaming up with Meta and Threads to sit down and have a great conversation
0:15.0	with the head of Threads, Connor Hayes,
0:17.0	and then also a friend of the program, Kendrick Perkins.
0:21.5	Make sure you guys tap in and enjoy.
0:24.7	What an honor to be your guys' first live threads pod, which is super dope. Shout
0:29.8	out meta. Thank you everyone for being here. Some of the top content creators on threads
0:36.6	are in here and I'm just letting you know now let's work
0:38.9	whoever you are wherever you are let's do some stuff together we're really excited to be
0:43.0	on threads and doing threads and again host this event today perk welcome man how are you
0:48.2	bro you good oh you're talking to you I'm just saying Matt you hit me with the the corporate
0:53.6	like yeah how you doing, bro?
0:55.0	Welcome, bro.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	I'm about, I just wanted to set that up because I'm about to get into that side.
1:03.0	I think you guys, you guys get to see ESPN perk, but when Perk is with us,
1:08.0	a perk is a different animal.
1:11.6	Kendrick, motherfucking Perkins is what they call them on our show, because him and Vernon
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