LeBron James laughs at his ‘reaction’ to James Harden’s trade

LeBron James laughs at his ‘reaction’ to James Harden’s trade

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8:15 PM ET

  • Kelly CohenESPN

Probably, if you are a sports fan, you have seen the name James Harden as a trend on social media this week. Harden was traded by the Houston Rockets on Wednesday to the Brooklyn Nets in a four-team megadeal that also sent Caris LeVert to the Indiana Pacers and Victor Oladipo, among others (plus a pile of choices in the draft), to Houston.

So now there’s a new Big Three in Brooklyn: Harden, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

Someone familiar with being part of the Big Three is LeBron James, who won two NBA championships with the Miami Heat when he formed a famous duo with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in 2010. Ten years later, James’s Los Angeles Lakers is the current NBA champion – and they are the team to be defeated in the quest to lift the Larry O’Brien Trophy this season.

Cue Mark Phillips, who is the founder and face of RDCworld1 – a YouTube channel that offers online entertainment through skits, vlogs and short films. Phillips posted a video of himself imitating James while James found out about Harden’s trade and the new Nets.

“So it’s James, Durant and Kyrie? I’m 36! I’m 36! Why is everyone against me?” Phillips, playing James, screams. “I’m not Thanos! Stop throwing the ball at me! I’m tired of doing that! I just beat the Warriors!”

The clip also brought Thanos – Marvel’s villain – a trend.

On Twitter, the video had over 8.7 million views on Thursday night. There were over 1.9 million on YouTube and 1.2 million on Phillips’ Instagram page. It is not shocking that the King himself saw the video – and he reacted to it.

Phillips told ESPN that he and his friends have been making videos for years and his popularity is growing. They have had successes with other videos about James and have been shouted at by other celebrities, from Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson to rapper J. Cole and actor Michael B. Jordan. But it took things to a new level.

“But what’s crazy about LeBron is that we make videos involving him … so when he did, I didn’t think it was real,” said Phillips. “We were actually in the middle of shooting a YouTube video and I didn’t know he tweeted it. My nephew FaceTimed told me, and I was in shock.

“Immediately he was like, ‘You did it, you did it’, and we couldn’t believe it, but we were just screaming for joy and everyone was crowding around a phone with the highest level of excitement.”

King’s approval? This is really worth it.

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