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Kendrick Perkins is a talkative soul. He spent a good portion of the game yapping at Tim Duncan. With the way he was playing volleyball with Duncan's shots, maybe he had a right . After one such swat, Perkins whirled to the Boston bench and crossed his arms to signal an "X." Whatever that means. Not sure when Perkins became so loquacious. Some believe Kevin Garnett -- the league's king of trash talk -- has rubbed off on him. "He didn't used to be that way until he got with KG," one Spurs player told me. San Antonio Express-News

Perk ended up in a nose-to-nose standoff with Tim Duncan early in the game.“It was just two guys getting physical,” Perkins said. “He said, ‘Ain’t you moving?’ And I said, ‘I ain’t moving.’ ” . . .

ps....and the press starts crying KG's 1st game back.


pss.“It took longer than we expected for him to heal,” Rivers said of Garnett, who played for the first time since Feb. 19 when the Celtics and Spurs met Friday in San Antonio. “We weren’t overly cautious, but you do have to be careful with strains. The last thing you want is a guy coming back too soon and re-injuring himself.” Yahoo! Sports

You can see he not only fires up perk, but the whole team.... even when he wasnt on the floor the defence looked so much better than it has while hes been out, like a whole different team.

He makes that big of a difference, but props to perk for his work on duncan tonight