Earlier this week, NBA analyst Kendrick Perkins suggested the league's MVP voters have a racial bias toward two-time Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokić.
"@CoachKarl22 do you of all people want to go there today? Because I definitely have time homeboy. YOU most definitely have a few Skeletons in your damn closet," Perkins wrote.
Karl, who spent 27 seasons as a head coach in the NBA, added that he believed Jokić was named league MVP two consecutive times because of his level on play on the court. "The truth here is the MVP voters aren’t racist, Jokic is gonna win it again cause he deserves it and u still owe me dinner from the Bubble," Karl wrote.wins, it will be his third straight MVP award.
Eleven-time NBA champion Bill Russell won the award from 1960-63, Wilt Chamberlain earned MVP honors from 1965-68 and Celtics all-time great Larry Bird was named MVP three straight times from 1983-86.the format of the show and pushed back on Perkins' comments.
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