Cavaliers Players Were Reportedly Angry Team Didn’t Re-Sign Kendrick Perkins

March 3rd, 2016 by Adam Wells Leave a reply »
Drama and the Cleveland Cavaliers have gone hand-in-hand this year, with the latest crisis reportedly coming as the result of not re-signing Kendrick Perkins last summer.  

Speaking on The Dan Patrick Show (h/t Dan Feldman of NBCSports.com) on Thursday, Chris Haynes of Cleveland.com said many Cavaliers players were "highly pissed" that Perkins was allowed to walk in favor of Sasha Kaun. 

Haynes expanded on his report, saying Perkins added "the intangibles, the emotional leadership and the enforcer, the enforcement role he brought to the team."

Perkins signed with the New Orleans Pelicans last July and has appeared in just 15 games, while Kaun is a 30-year-old who has played 14 games in his first NBA season after spending six years playing in the Euroleague with CSKA Moscow. 

The 31-year-old Perkins is certainly a respected veteran around the NBA. ESPN.com's Royce Young offered this breakdown of the center in December 2014:

It's happiness for a player who places his team above everything else and ignores the waves of criticism piled on him, instead only caring about the opinions of the other 1 ...

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