Doc: The Refs are Targeting Perk

Doc Rivers on the treatment the refs give to Kendrick Perkins:

“I’ve got to say this about Perk,” Rivers began, “clearly, every game he’s been targeted for these moving screens. He gets them every game. He gets them called every game. Watching that tape last night, there two where he did move in the direction but there was zero contact on him. Brad Miller, on the other hand, is flying around. He’s laying guys out on screens and didn’t get one of those called. That bothers you.”

Doc's right - 100%. But this is all Perk's fault. He has a bad habit of setting moving picks and he's not well-liked by officials.

I think as a team, as a whole, not just me but as a whole, I don’t think think we’re the favorites with the refs. I don’t think the refs like the Boston Celtics,” Perkins said.

Asked why that might be Perkins, replied, “I don’t know. We have a lot of talkers on this team.”

The secret to getting calls? Kiss their asses:

“Perk doesn’t help himself, which I’ve told him 100 times. When you do commit a foul, sometimes say, ‘Good call.’ And I know he’s never committed a foul and I probably whine as much as he does.”