CLEVELAND -- Kendrick Perkins joined the Cavaliers at LeBron James' minicamp in Santa Barbara, Calif., and will come to training camp next week, sources told cleveland.com.

Perkins, 32, played for the Cavs in 2014-15 and was out of the NBA last season. He's interested in an NBA comeback and is apparently in great shape, judging by the team photo shared by multiple Cavs on their various social media platforms.

But Perkins, a 6-10 center who is popular in the Cavs' locker room, is not likely to make the team. Cleveland already has 15 players under guaranteed contract and is $18.6 million over the league's luxury tax line - which means it would cost the team millions to cut someone else and give a roster spot to Perkins.

Perkins, a 13-year vet who averaged 5.4 points and 5.8 boards for his career, is not eligible for Cleveland's remaining "two-way" contract. Those are new to the NBA this year and are meant for players who will spend time in both the developmental, minor "G" League and the NBA.

Players with more than three years of NBA service can't sign a two-way contract.

The Cavs have now filled 19 of 20 spots for camp invitees.

Perkins signed as a free agent with Cleveland in 2015, and filled the fabled "enforcer" role on the Cavs' bench.

During the infamous Game 4 of a first-round playoff series that year in Boston, Perkins actually leveled Jae Crowder with a pick and the two took swings at each other.

Crowder, of course, is now a Cav.

Earlier this summer, Perkins told the Boston Globe: "The body feels good, man, I'm just sitting here waiting on an opportunity. Hopefully I can get a training camp invite soon. I want to earn my way. I don't want nobody to give me nothing. So I've been working hard, going two or three times a day, working and grinding. I'm just trying to stay with it."