Kendrick Perkins, a former NBA champion (2008) and star analyst at ESPN, is making money outside of broadcasting duties.
Kendrick Perkins
Position: | C |
Age: | 37 |
Height: | 208 cm |
Weight: | 123 kg |
Birth place: | Nederland, United States of America |
He is one of four owners of a multi-million dollar dog breeding business, via Ryan Glasspiegel of the NY Post.
Together with his brother-in-law Thomas Alpough and two businessmen Dung Nguyen and John Shenkir, Perkins established a four-person company called Big League Exotics (BLE).
Now, BLE has 42 Frenchies and Perkins estimates their sale value to cumulatively be about $4 million-$5 million.
The dogs are spread between their own compound and other families and kennels that could be eventual partners in the business. There is a significant emphasis placed on the dogs' welfare and quality of life.
"We started developing relationships. I started learning more about the DNA, the color, the structure — the things that people want. And now we're to the point where we actually have dogs that are in our kennel that are worth $250K, $500K — and we even have one that's worth $1 million," Perkins told Ryan Glasspiegel.
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