Kendrick Perkins was Darwin Barney Youth Jersey ejected in the third quarter of the New Orleans Pelicans' 117-112 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night after striking the chin and neck area of Damian Lillard with his forearm in an attempt to stop the point guard from scoring.Perkins was assessed a flagrant foul 2, a call upheld after video review, for the blow that sent Lillard to the ground."It was dirty for sure, but it's a physical game," Lillard said. "Some guys impact their team just by doing stuff like that. Maybe that's his way of impacting their team. I don't know, but I'm from Oakland. I've been punched before. I've been tackled before. It was a cheap play, but to me it didn't feel as bad as it might have looked. My focus is on winning the game, and it was probably two points easier than it probably would have been if I had gotten to the rim."Blazers center Mason Plumlee immediately took exception to the foul; he and Perkins had to be separated by players on the court.http://www.authenticredsoxstore.com/authentic-19-fred-lynn-jersey.html "I thought it was a dirty play," Plumlee said. "The way it looked in the moment, it didn't look good. I think the refs made the right call but between me and him, there was nothing. I wasn't sure if he was trying to hurt people, which wouldn't be cool. When you see a guy go down on a similar play to a horse-collar tackle in football, it is not a good look."Perkins was initially guarding Plumlee before a screen switched him onto Lillard at the top of the key. The fleet-footed Lillard quickly drove past the 6-foot-10, 270-pound center, who then hit him as he prepared to go up with a shot from inside the free throw line."First of all, it looks a lot worse than it was," Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry said. "I think what Perk was trying to do was that he was trying to take the foul and he was going to grab [Lillard] and wrap him up. And then when he grabbed him around the chest, obviously his momentum took him forward so it looked like he went for his neck -- which, Perk is not that kind of player. He's not that kind of player at all. He was trying to take a foul on him and it appeared [to be] more."http://www.officialdiamondbacksshop.com/authentic-2-aaron-hill-jersey.html Lillard finished with 33 points, eight rebounds and six assists. His pass to C.J. McCollum for a 3-pointer with one minute left gave the Blazers a two-point lead they never relinquished. A spot on one of the three end-of-season All-NBA teams stands between Anthony Davis and an extra $24 million on the maximum extension he signed with the New Orleans Pelicans last offseason.Davis said Friday that the decision is largely out of his hands. But he's also well aware of what's at stake."It's a contract. It's a contract. Twenty-four million dollars ... they give out that for [full] contracts," Davis said. "Can't control it. You just got to control what you can control, and that's what's on the floor."The payout depends on what is known as the "Derrick Rose Rule" in the NBA's collective bargaining agreement. If a player on a rookie contract is voted an All-Star starter twice, makes any of the three All-NBA teams twice or wins regular-season MVP, he is eligible to make 30 percent of the league's cap amount in the first season, which brings the total contract to more than $145 million.Davis was named an All-Star starter and to the first team All-NBA last season but was a reserve for this year's Western Conference All-Stars.http://www.officialbravesshop.com/authentic-2-bj-upton-jersey.html If he doesn't make an All-NBA team, as voted on by qualifying media members, Davis will make a little more than $120 million, starting at 25 percent of the cap -- a difference of around $25 million.
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