The Los Angeles Lakers are on a hot streak right now. After taking down the LA Clippers 108-102 on Sunday night, the purple and gold have now won six straight games and are making serious noise in the Western Conference playoff picture.
Despite the addition of Luka Doncic, TNT's Charles Barkley doesn't sound all that impressed with the Lakers and their chances to make a championship run.
Charles Barkley has had enough of ESPN's talking heads discussing the Los Angeles Lakers. On the TNT pregame show that preceded an NBA double-header featuring the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers as well as the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks,
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.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, Nick Wright addressed Charles Barkley's criticisms of Lakers on Inside the NBA.