Tensions rose on Thursday night between TNT’s Charles Barkley and ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins and the Oklahoma City Thunder were in the middle of it. During TNT’s NBA Tipoff show ahead of Thursday night’s game between the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers,

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.

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