Former NBA champion Kendrick Perkins says Australian young weapon Josh Giddey has the "capability of being a superstar" aft a agleam commencement to his career.
Through the archetypal 4th of the 2021-22 NBA season, Giddey's emergence has taken the NBA satellite by storm.
The 19-year-old Australian was rewarded for his accelerated commencement to beingness arsenic an NBA subordinate yesterday aft being crowned NBA's Western Conference Rookie of the Month for October and November.
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Giddey has averaged 10.4 points to spell with a team-leading 7.2 rebounds and 5.8 assists per crippled done the archetypal 20 games of the season.
Giddey's awesome commencement hasn't gone unnoticed by erstwhile Thunder centre Perkins, who believes the Australian has the imaginable to not conscionable go an NBA All-Star, but a genuine superstar of the league.
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"Absolutely [he tin beryllium superstar]," Perkins said connected ESPN's The Jump. "He's lone going to spell up."
"From everything I've heard, from the Oklahoma City organisation - they accidental he's a hard idiosyncratic and helium already has everything and more, to not lone beryllium an [NBA] All-Star but a superstar."
Perkins, who besides won an NBA title with Boston successful 2008, claims Giddey tin the superstar to pb Oklahoma's adjacent epoch of basketball.
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The organisation was erstwhile location to 3 erstwhile NBA MVPs - Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant and James Harden - who took the Thunder to the NBA Finals successful 2012.
"To instrumentality the Oklahoma City Thunder to wherever they utilized to beryllium erstwhile they had Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant and James Harden," Perkins said.
"He has that capableness of being a superstar.
"I don't similar throwing that connection (superstar) retired a lot, but what he's been doing connected a accordant ground nighttime successful and nighttime retired - helium has superstar written each over.
"The lone mode he's not a superstar is if helium gets successful his ain way."
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