Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins were teammates for parts of five seasons with the Thunder. But in the seven-plus years since they last shared the court together, it doesn’t seem that they’re on each other’s holiday card lists.
Perkins started a war of words of sorts during his appearance on ESPN’s First Take on Monday when he reflected on his time in Oklahoma City. As he recounted the team’s core of young stars, he made a crack about Ibaka lying about his age, saying that even though his listed age for the 2010–11 season was 21, he was “probably 30 at the time.