The Lakers have broken brains since trading for Luka Doncic, and two people who cannot land on the same page are Charles Barkley and Kendrick Perkins.

Charles Barkley called out the media, specifically ESPN's Kendrick Perkins, for focusing on the red-hot Lakers, and Perkins has fired back.

Former NBA center Kendrick Perkins fired back at Charles Barkley over a heated rant about ESPN where Barkley personally called Perkins a fool.

Barkley blasted ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins by name, calling him “an idiot and a fool” over a comment he made on NBA Today Wednesday about the Lakers “saving the NBA” by trading for Luka Doncic.

Kendrick Perkins didn't like what Charles Barkley said about him on TNT's 'Inside the NBA,' so he fired back at him, shouting out his Beaumont roots.

Charles Barkley, who will be on 'Inside the NBA' on ESPN next season, called ESPN's on-air talent, in particular Kendrick Perkins, 'idiots' for saying the Lakers saved the NBA season.

Former NBA players-turned-analysts Charles Barkley and Kendrick Perkins are trading public insults at each other this week.

My thing is don’t play with me like that. I am the smoke,” Perkins told me. “I don’t come up with the topics on ESPN and I don’t produce the shows. That’s not my job. My job is to give my

"Inside the NBA" analyst Charles Barkley had words for colleagues at ESPN for their lack of coverage of the Cleveland Cavs and Oklahoma City Thunder.