Lou Williams Claps Back at Kendrick Perkins, Doing Him a Huge Favor

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Kendrick Perkins, in his time on television, is proving very adept at getting people to talk about his time on television. The latest installment was when he admonished Lou Williams for going to a strip club to pick up dinner while excused from the NBA bubble for a funeral, eliciting a response from the Clippers' bench spark.

Tweeting about the segment, Perkins said that it's "disturbing" how Zion Williamson is more mature than Williams, an NBA veteran who is 33 years old, and Williams clapped back:






Whether Williams knows this or not, by amplifying Perkins' commentary he is further ensuring not just that Perkins will continue to take loud shots on television, but that he'll get more and more airtime with which to do so. Perkins inspires a type of reaction that in the industry is seen as a sign of relevance -- a bunch of people in media have taken shots at Williams, but Perkins is the one he's responding to.

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Ryan Glasspiegel grew up in Connecticut, graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and lives in Chicago. Before OutKick, he wrote for Sports Illustrated and The Big Lead. He enjoys expensive bourbon and cheap beer.