LeBron James laughs at his “reaction” to the James Harden trade

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  • Kelly CohenESPN

Chances are if you’re a sports fan, you’ve seen the name James Harden on social media trends this week. Harden was traded by the Houston Rockets to the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday in a four-team megadeal that sent Caris LeVert to the Indiana Pacers and Victor Oladipo, among others (plus a bunch of drafts), to Houston.

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

Someone familiar with being part of a Big Three is LeBron James, who won two NBA championships with the Miami Heat when he made a famous team with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in 2010. Ten years later, James’ Los Angeles Lakers are NBA champions in defense – and they’re the team they have to beat in an attempt to pick up 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 about himself, imitating James, while James learned about the trade with Harden and the new Nets look.

“So it’s James, Durant and Kyrie? I’m 36! I’m 36! Why is everyone against me?” Phillips, playing James, screamed. “I’m not Thanos! Don’t throw the ball anymore! I’m tired of doing this! I just defeated the Warriors!”

The video also got the trend of Thanos – the Marvel villain.

On Twitter, the video had over 8.7 million views since Thursday night. He had another $ 1.9 million on YouTube and $ 1.2 million on Phillips’ Instagram page. It’s not shocking that the King himself saw the video – and reacted to it.

Phillips told ESPN that he and his friends have been making videos for years and that they have grown in popularity. They had hits with other videos about James and were shouted by other stars, from Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson to rapper J. Cole to actor Michael B. Jordan. But this has taken things to a new level.

“But what’s crazy about LeBron is that we make videos that involve him … so when he did, I didn’t think he was real,” Phillips said. “I was actually in the middle of filming a video on YouTube and I didn’t know I sent it on Twitter. My nephew FaceTimed told me and told me, and I was shocked.

“He immediately said, ‘You did it, you did it,’ and we couldn’t believe it at all, but we were just shouting for joy and we were all huddled around a phone with the highest level of emotion.”

Approval from the King? This is really trendy.

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