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Kendrick Perkins Had Laughably Bad Take on NBA Stars Needing to Have Families

Anthony Edwards during the Timberwolves’ Game 4 loss. | Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images

Anthony Edwards did not have a performance befitting a superstar in the Minnesota Timberwolves' Game 4 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. Edwards scored just 16 points on 13 field goal attempts in the two-point loss. While ESPN's Kendrick Perkins doesn't put the loss on Edwards because he doesn't feel he struggled, he does think there's a reason he's not ready to be the face of the league—he's not a family man.

Perkins backed up that rather wild claim by pointing out that many of the former faces of the league like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson and a few other current and future Hall of Famers were all family men when they were at the top of their games.

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