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Kendrick Perkins is the bold and educational voice we need today Every single word he speaks will challenge enlighten and encourage you to become a better version of yourself and see a better version of the world Perkins riveting stories about the NBA his upbringing and social justice will make this impossible to put down Emmanuel Acho New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Kendrick Perk Perkins is known for his blunt opinionated carry the hell on commentary on ESPNs most popular shows As a fourteenyear NBA player and starting center for the 2008 NBA champion Boston Celtics Perk earned a reputation as an enforcer a fierce defender and a great teammate Now In The Education of Kendrick Perkins he opens a different side of himself a powerful and intimate memoir that goes beyond basketball to discuss the reality of being Black in America

Abandoned by his father then orphaned after the murder of his mother Perk was raised by his grandparents in a small Texas town He left their home at age eighteen drafted out of high school by the legendary Celtics For a country boy Boston was a completely new world and the NBA a league of legends Kobe Bryant Lebron James Kevin Garnett James Harden Shaquille ONeal Paul Pierce Ray Allen Kevin Durant and more Perk had to learn how to play with and against these stars while adjusting to life on the road as a professional athlete

But his education went beyond basketball In this audiobook Perk reveals his awakening consciousness of larger issues that affected him his fellow players and Black Americans

How many NBA players grow up in broken families and difficult circumstances
The history of slavery and how that trauma affects generations of Black life
The truths told by writers including James Baldwin Ralph Ellison Richard Wright and others
The myths about the Black family and fatherhood
Why George Floyds murder forced a reckoning about race in America

Honest fearless dramatic filled with stories about life on and off the court The Education of Kendrick Perkins is a unique memoir that shows how he and we all can carry the hell on

A Macmillan Audio production from St Martins Press