Former NBA champion Kendrick Perkins is usually known for his hot takes and his blunt thoughts on what's going on around the league.Last week, however, he made the rounds for different reasons.Making an appearance on ESPN's SportsCenter, Perk seemed to shoot his shot with anchor Elle Duncan, unbeknownst that they were already live:"What you need Ibuprofen for when you can have a Perk?" Perkins asked.Judging by Duncan's reaction, fans took to social media to call him out and make fun of him for such an awkward moment. The story still hasn't gone away, which is why his wife, Vanity Perkins, took to Instagram to shut down the narrative once and for all:Via Vanity Perkins' IG"I pity the fool that think Kendrick Perkins is dumb enough to ever play with me on live TV #WatchTheEntireShow #NotAClip," she wrote in the story.Vanity is actually right, and even Duncan herself tried to clear the air on X. She explained that it was an ongoing joke between the two, as she had also used a pun to greet him when they recorded another show together:"lol yo the comments are wild. I used a Perk idiom at the beginning of the segment (like I always do) and this was him trying to top it. He’s big bruh and my FAVE. there was no shot shotted," Duncan wrote on X.That should be the end of the story, but the internet never forgets, and most people will only keep that first image in their minds.Ja Morant claps back at Kendrick PerkinsNotably, this isn't the only reason why Perkins has made the headlines recently, and we're not even two weeks into the NBA season.In a recent appearance on "Out The Mud," Perkins took a big shot at Memphis Grizzlies' young star Ja Morant:“You fu*k up, not only do that make you look bad, that made me look bad. They recognized you because of me speaking highly of you. It ain’t no coincidence you went from having 3 games on ESPN to 52," he said.Truth to form, Morant didn't hesitate to hit back at him with a mocking message on X:"you da reason for my notoriety perk? come on dawg . 😂 you showing em why ion fw yo kind," he wrote.Perkins has become a hot-take specialist, and as such, he's going to rubble some feathers among those who used to be his colleagues.