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Speaker 1: Missed opportunity. I love sharing conversations, now hosting them requires

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some show prep. My podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests.

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What you don't have access to are my missed opportunities.

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The show prep was completed, the conversation did not happen.

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I keep all of my notes because I believe paths

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will one day cross again. Let me explain missed opportunity.

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It's my questions and statements without their answers. I'm leaving

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open enough space at the end of each question hoping

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they'll download the talk and insert those answers. Missed opportunity

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is a lost piece of history, like a message in

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a bottle tossed out to see. I hope to locate

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a destination. This week, we're putting focus on my missed

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opportunity with NBA star Kendrick Perkins. Okay, let's see what

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happened here with this conversation. Kendrick Perkins former NBA star.

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In twenty twenty three, he was part of the ESPN team.

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He played basketball for the Boston Celtics, helping them to

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win an NBA championship. Totally. He spent fourteen years playing

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the professional game. Perkins or Perk, as he was called,

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has a platform unrivaled by anyone else dominance in media outreach.

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He deals with real issues such as race, class, political consciousness,

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and fatherhood. He was raised in poverty by his grandparents.

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His new book in twenty twenty three was titled The

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Education of Kendrick Perkins. It bears the man's heart and soul.

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It's more than wins and losses on that court. Going

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up against the best actually made him one of the

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greatest or best. The invitation to host a conversation with

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Kendrick arrived on February twenty first, twenty twenty three. I

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would be given seven minutes to help bring his word

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in message forward. A zoom link was sent on the

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twenty fourth of February. It was going to actually happen.

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The morning of the twenty seventh arrived at nine thirty

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four am. We were told the interview would be postponed.

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We do apologize for this last minute confusion. The guest

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has gone a wall. They were asked, would it be rescheduled.

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The reply was yes, as soon as we have a

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definitive answer. It never happened. It was my missed opportunity. Hey,

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coming up next I still have the questions and the

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statements and I'll share them with you. Kindrake Perkins, Hey,

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thanks for coming back to Missed Opportunity. This week, the

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focus is on NBA superstar Kendrick Perkins the book The

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Education of Kendrick Perkins. Dude, you are not afraid of

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activating your life experiences. You talk about the nineteen eighties

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war on drugs in black communities. You're open with this

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on your own at the age of eighteen. So many

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NBA stars don't know how to handle their personal lives,

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but you knew how to grow with your money. Here's

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one thing you're not afraid to talk about. You left

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behind the ghost of your mother and the shadow of

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your father, making that choice to mentor future sports players.

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What was that like? You believe inside your heart that

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fatherhood is so so important. You lead in ways that

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other men are empowered by. To engineer a fourteen year

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NBA career, It's all about keeping the mind, body, and

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soul in the game. How does your social media following

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change your personal life's game? And there you have it,

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the questions, the statements, my missed opportunity with NBA great

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Kendrick Perkins, A lost piece of history. You now know

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the questions, so let's locate the reactions. The door is

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always going to be open. If you are or no

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Kendrick Perkins, reach out to me at erroc at gmail

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dot com. That's a R. R oe C at gmail

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dot com, and as always, be brilliant