Kendrick Perkins questions how Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant will mesh on the court

Although they played together for a short while in Cleveland, Kyrie Irving’s ex-Cavs teammate, Kendrick Perkins, isn’t the Brooklyn Nets point guard’s biggest fan. Perkins was recently involved in a Twitter beef with Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant, but the former Oklahoma City Thunder teammates seem to get along outside of that one incident.

In fact, Perkins once again displayed his respect for Durant when he spoke about Brooklyn’s superstar during his appearance on 93.7 WEEI’s Dale and Keefe in Boston. However, the former NBA center turned analyst was, once again, not so kind to Irving.

After he ripped the Nets point guard, Perkins expressed his concern over how things will look in Brooklyn when the two are actually playing together:

When you have Kevin Durant on your team, your chances of winning are high. I just don’t know — I know [Durant and Irving] are good friends off the court. I just don’t know how great it’s gonna mesh with them two get together. Because you just never know about Kyrie. And I think it’s gonna be a challenge when they start playing to actually bring him along and hold him accountable.

Perkins then sited Irving being abruptly scratched from Monday’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers, despite having a day off on Sunday, as something that would not go over well with Durant:

Me knowing the player, the competitive person that Kevin Durant is, he’s gonna be — you know, I think there’s gonna be a few times that he bumps heads with Kyrie. Because one thing about KD, he loves to play the game of basketball and he’s got a high IQ for the game of basketball — and Kyrie is not gonna be able to fool him. And, hopefully, in which I think he will, KD will be the guy, the leader to call him out.

Unfortunately for Nets fans and the basketball world, no one will see what Irving and Durant look like as Brooklyn’s duo for a while, with the team not expecting the forward to play in 2019-20.