NBA champ Kendrick Perkins sells dogs worth up to $1 million / News - Basketnews.com

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Kendrick Perkins, a former NBA champion (2008) and star analyst at ESPN, is making money outside of broadcasting duties.

Kendrick Perkins

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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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