A former Cavalier is not on Team LeBron this time.
Retired attacker turned YES and ESPN analyst Richard Jefferson was caught liking multiple Instagram posts from Juliana Carlos, who earned 15 minutes of fame and the LeBron James blessed nickname ‘Courtside Karen’ after her raucous actions during the Hawks Monday’s Lakers game. .
“Richard Jefferson is doing Lebron dirty by liking all the photos of Courtside Karen on Instagram,” the Twitter account @buckets wrote shortly after the game, accompanied by four screenshots of Jefferson liking Carlos’s photos.
40-year-old Jefferson played for eight teams during his 18-year career, including the Cavaliers during James’s return to Cleveland. The pair won the NBA Championship in 2016 and are close.
Jefferson, perhaps jokingly, did not refute the charge and even went a step further.
“Wait, can you see that?” I’m on her side, “he wrote in a quote tweet moments later.
Carlos – who claims to be 25 years old on social media – was one of four fans kicked out of the Atlanta State Farm Arena on Monday after having a verbal argument with the Lakers star in the fourth quarter. She raised both middle fingers as she was escorted out and posted a curse-laden video to Instagram claiming that James was the one who started the feud by cursing her husband, Chris Carlos.
“I have no problem with LeBron,” she said. ‘I don’t care about LeBron. Anyway, I watch my own business, drink mine [beverage], having fun. Suddenly, LeBron says something to my husband, and I see this and I get up. And I’m going, “Don’t talk to my husband.” And he looks at me and he says, “Sit down, bra.” And I say, ‘Don’t call me ab-h. You sit down. Get the fk out of here. Don’t talk to my husband like that. ”
After the match, James, 36, coined the nickname “ Courtside Karen, ” which was trending hours later on Twitter and sparked a torrent of #CourtsideKaren memes.
“Courtside Karen was MAD MAD !!” James tweeted after the Lakers’ 107-99 victory, in which he recorded 21 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists.
“At the end of the day, I’m glad the fans are back in the building,” James told reporters after the game. ‘I don’t feel it was justified to be thrown out. There was back and forth between two grown men. We said our piece, he said his piece, I said my piece, and then someone else jumped in and said his piece. I didn’t think they should have been thrown out, but they might have had a few drinks, and they probably could have kept it going and the game wouldn’t have been about the game anymore, so the referees did what they had to do. “
The Lakers will go to 16-6 this season after the win on Monday and will face the Nuggets (12-8) in the Staples Center on Thursday.