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00:00I'm Jill Painter Lopez for Sports Illustrated here with Melissa Rowland.
00:09And Melissa, the LeBron James Paul Pierce feud is heating up.
00:13We've learned a little more about the background in that.
00:15What's happening there?
00:16Well, obviously there were recent headlines about Paul Pierce leaving LeBron James off
00:21of his top five list.
00:24Everybody viewed that as a huge slight.
00:26LeBron James is clearly one of the top players in the world of all time.
00:29How could he have been left off of that list?
00:31Well, Kendrick Perkins weighed in, putting some context into why that may have happened.
00:37Apparently in an interview, he revealed that the two of them have a long standing beef
00:41stemming all the way back to LeBron's rookie season.
00:45LeBron was touted as the chosen one.
00:47A lot of players were skeptical, including Paul Pierce.
00:51And during a preseason game, apparently Paul Pierce spat towards LeBron James's bench,
00:56which Kendrick Perkins said was the ultimate disrespect.
01:00And that may explain why Paul Pierce left LeBron James off of that list.