Desmond Bane Bashes Kendrick Perkins for Comparing Him to Duke Star

The Grizzlies guard and the ESPN analyst went back and forth on Twitter.

Kendrick Perkins’s player comparisons during the NBA Draft on Thursday caught a lot of people off guard, including the players being used as a comparison.

When the Knicks drafted Trevor Keels with the No. 42 pick in the second round, Perkins said the Duke guard played a similar game to Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane. However, Bane didn’t agree with the comparison, and that led to a twitter exchange between the two after the draft ended.

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Keels and Bane have a similar build, but Bane has proven to be a much better three-point shooter, both in college and in the NBA.

Bane is coming off a breakout year for the No. 2 seed Grizzlies, averaging 18.2 points per game while shooting 43.6% from three. Keels, meanwhile, shot 31.2% from three while accumulating 11.2 points per game in his one season at Duke. 

If Keels does become a Bane-like player, he would deserve a ton of credit for improving his shooting. But for now, Bane will not forget this exchange with Perkins.

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