Paul Pierce Twitter: For Kendrick Perkins, the road through the 2010 NBA playoffs has been just another long highway of hurt.
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After helping the Boston Celtics send the equivalent of an AARP card to Miami's Jermaine O'Neal in the first round, Perkins found himself pounding and getting pounded by Cleveland's Shaquille O'Neal for six grueling games.
Now the Boston center faces as many as seven games against Superman II, Orlando's Dwight Howard, with Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals Tuesday night at Amway Arena. Should things go well enough, often enough for Perkins and his team, his prize for all this might be at least four games against those purple-and-gold skyscrapers in Los Angeles.
Perkins says his second favorite sport is football (he's from Texas, after all), but with the way he plays, it seems he sometimes flips the order with basketball. On a team known for its skill positions (point guard Rajon Rondo as quarterback, say, and Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen as tailbacks and wide receivers), the 6-foot-10, 278-pound Perkins is all nose tackle.
"I look forward to the physical games," Perkins said Monday. "I have problems when I have to play against the quicker guys. The [Amar'e] Stoudemires, the Pau Gasols who like to face up. I like the physical matchups."
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