Kendrick Perkins tells Ariel Helwani, Fran Fraschilla and Peter Rosenberg that he watched his draft day in the conference room of a bank, when he was taken by the Memphis Grizzlies and traded to the Boston Celtics. Perkins also tells the tale of how that trade happened, what his workouts were like, driving across country to Boston and his difficulties adjusting to the lack of fast food establishments such as Taco Bell, Jack In The Box and Whataburger.
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