Kendrick Perkins doesn't believe in Boston Celtics: "We haven't even seen Kristaps Porzingis in a meaningful playoff game"

Former NBA star Kendrick Perkins has questioned the Boston Celtics’ championship credentials. The Celtics are going through a pretty impressive campaign as they are placed at the top of the first position in the Eastern Conference with 45 wins and just 12 defeats.

They are on a bit of a roll recently as well after winning eight matches in a row. Despite those results, Perkins, who played for the Celtics between 2003 and 2011, was recently quoted in a report that questioned his former team’s credentials for the NBA championship this season.

"We have revisited this topic so many times over the past two and a half or three seasons," Perkins said. "Because we've seen this movie before. The Celtics are not judged on regular season. Jayson Tatum is not judged on regular season.

“We haven't even seen Kristaps Porzingis in a meaningful playoff game. I don't know what he's gonna do in a series ... I can't sit up here on national television and say the Celtics are up there in a tier of their own."

The Celtics will next going to face the Philadelphia 76ers — who are placed in third place in the Atlantic Conference — in the match at the TD Garden in Boston on Tuesday.