Former NBA champion Kendrick Perkins opened concerning the issues that the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder confronted and that prevented the workforce from successful a championship regardless of having superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook on the roster.

In accordance with him, the primary drawback wasn’t OKC buying and selling James Harden to the Houston Rockets, as an alternative it was lack of relationship between KD and Russ.

Perkins revealed that the brotherhood that the 2 superstars confirmed publicly was pretend. They have been by no means shut off the courtroom. He knew it again then that with that type of relationship the Thunder won’t win a championship.

Nevertheless, Perkins did attempt to make Durant and Westbrook talk extra and spend time collectively, however he admits it by no means actually labored.

“It was all about KD and Russ,” Perk stated on The Outdated Mad & The Three podcast. “It was about their relationship. That continuity wasn’t there. Irrespective of how a lot they tried to pretend it to the general public, their brotherhood it by no means was a brotherhood and that’s okay, proper?

“Since you don’t must be any person’s brother to go on the market and attempt to win a championship, however it helps. However they by no means simply received on the identical web page and it was probably the most tough state of affairs I’ve ever been in.

“Coming from a Celtic workforce that was so shut, that after I received to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder it was so separated. You had Eric Maynor, you had Russell Westbrook, and James Harden these guys all and DaeQuan Prepare dinner they’d a clique and so they kicked it with one another.

“And then you definitely simply had KD who was simply by himself and he didn’t even cling with them. So I began to see it and I’m like ‘Maintain on, we will’t win like this, not the place we making an attempt to go.’”