#kperkins

According to OKC Thunder center Kendrick Perkins, he’s the guy that teammates call when they have a problem such as not getting enough touches. Per Yahoo! Sports: “For Kendrick Perkins, the telephone calls from frustrated Oklahoma City Thunder teammates come with a far greater frequency than passes into the post. Sometimes, this is the blessing and the curse of playing with the greatness of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. In victory and defeat, the ball belongs to the NBA’s two best 20-something scorers and everyone else is left to sort through the scraps of shots.

It's been one week since the ground-shaking confrontation between Memphis Grizzlies power forward Zach Randolph and Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins, a titanic face-off that featured Perk calling for a postgame meeting by the bus, Z-Bo promising to beat Perkins' posterior, a pair of ejections and an alleged back-room "altercation" that launched scores of tweets and an NBA investigation. The result of that league-office inquiry? A $25,000 fine for Randolph for "confronting" Perkins, no discipline for the OKC big man, a bunch of completely reasonable questions as to what exactly makes DeMarcus Cousins "confronting" Shawn Elliott so much worse than Z-Bo's tête-à-tête with Perk, and not much in the way of explanation.

Memphis forward Zach Randolph has been fined $25,000 for confronting Oklahoma City's Kendrick Perkins in the lockerroom area following their ejections with 2:05 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Grizzlies at Thunder game on Nov. 14, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Executive Vice President Basketball Operations.

The NBA is investigating Wednesday night's reported confrontation involving Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph and Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins, according to a league spokesman.

The beef started late in the game last night, as the Memphis Grizzlies handily beat the OKC Thunder. Zach Randolph and Kendrick Perkins’ trash-talking got both bigs ejected — in this clip you can clearly hear Z-Bo tell Perk that he will beat his ass — and they proceeded to cuss each other out once away from the court.

According to OKC Thunder GM Sam Presti, Kendrick Perkins probably won’t take part in the team’s training camp and preseason games so that the big man can fully recover from offseason surgeries.