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Kendrick Perkins on radar for Tall Blacks
just read on www.stuff.co.nz that the NZ Tall Blacks staff have been in contact with Boston Celtics Centre Kendrick Perkins estranged father who resides in New Zealands South Island in the hope of getting him to play for NZ.
Boston Celtics centre Kendrick Perkins is a long-term project to play for the Tall Blacks.
New Zealand assistant coach Dillon Boucher said the NBA star was on their radar as a prospective member of the national squad, although not for the upcoming world championships in Turkey.
Perkins' estranged father Kenny Perkins lives in Christchurch and was a veteran of the New Zealand National Basketball League in the 1980s and 90s.
"I believe some contact has been made with his father," Boucher told the Waikato Times.
"He's out for about six months now with an injury but we'll probably go down that avenue in the next year or so.
"We don't know what his eligibility will be in terms of being able to play for us but it's definitely something worth pursuing.
"It would be awesome to have him playing for the Tall Blacks."
Would be pretty cool but still gotta laugh
