The NBA 75th Anniversary list of the 75 Greatest Players of All-Time includes several Portland Trail Blazers, among them the three greatest in franchise history: Clyde Drexler, Damian Lillard, and Bill Walton. No All-Time list is without controversy, though. In the wake of the list reveal, Walton finds himself being compared to NBA great Dwight Howard, with some pundits wondering why the vintage center deserved the nod over Superman.
As is typical in these situations, Kendrick Perkins’ voice is ringing loudly across the landscape.
On First Take today, he claimed that Howard “gets disrespected so much, it’s ridiculous”.