After Kyrie Irving reportedly requested a trade from the Nets on Friday after the two sides couldn’t agree on terms of a contract extension, ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins took the All-NBA guard to task on NBA Today.
“What reaction?” Perkins asked ESPN’s Malika Andrews when she asked for Perkins’s thoughts on his trade request.
“This is Kyrie Irving. A guy that you cannot trust. Didn’t Kyrie Irving just say that Kevin Durant was his best friend? Right? So where is the loyalty? Right? If that’s your best friend, I don’t want that. Give me an enemy. For the simple fact that when you look at how Kevin Durant has been riding for Kyrie Irving since they arrived in Brooklyn …standing behind him through whatever his beliefs were, whatever he was doing, riding with him over James Harden.”
