ESPN Basketball analyst Kendrick Perkins is no stranger to controversy with his \u201chot takes. But one opinion caused him to receive death threats.<\/p>\n
During an episode of his Road Trippin\u2019 podcast, Perkins recalled that he and his wife were subject to online threats after comparing Giannis Antetokounmpo to Robin and Khris Middleton to Batman of the Milwaukee Bucks\u2019 championship team in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been preaching time and time again that [Khris Middleton is] the Batman of this team and Giannis is the Robin,\u201d he said back at the time, <\/a>adding, \u201cit\u2019s okay to be the Robin \u2014 people think that\u2019s a bad thing. It\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Perkins, he showed the messages to executives at ESPN who identified the perpetrator. \u201cThey found the dude and locked him up,\u201d Perkins said. \u201cNo, no. I wasn\u2019t serious. You’re going to jail. Don\u2019t play like that.\u201d<\/p>\n That year, not only did Milwaukee win the NBA Championship, but Antetokounmpo was awarded the Finals MVP after a dominant display against the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n Perkins\u2019 disturbing experiences came from the podcast episode where gambling in basketball was discussed, in particular, Michael Porter Jr., who recently spoke<\/a> about the dangers of prop betting in professional sports.<\/p>\n \u201cThink about it, if you could get all your homies rich by telling them, ‘Yo, bet $10,000 on my under this one game. I’m going to act like I’ve got an injury, and I’m going sit out. I’m going to come out after three minutes,” Porter said. “And they all get a little bag because you did it one game.\u201d<\/p>\n