LeBron James laughs at his “reaction” to James Harden’s trade

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  • Kelly CohenESPN

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

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

LeBron James, who won two NBA championships with the Miami Heat when he famously teamed up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in 2010. Ten years later, James’ Los Angeles Lakers are the defenders of the NBA – and they are the team to win 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 provides online entertainment through skits, vlogs and short films. Phillips posted a video of him imitating James when James learned of Harden’s trade and the new appearance of Nets.

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

The clip also had a tendency to Thanos, the bad guy from Marvel.

On Twitter, the video had more than 8.7 million views on Thursday evening. He had another 1.9 million on YouTube and 1.2 million on Phillips ’Instagram page. Not surprisingly, 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 been growing in popularity. They have had hits with other videos about James and have been called by other celebrities, from Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson to rapper J. Cole to actor Michael B. Jordan. But that took things to a new level.

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

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

Approval of the king? This is really trend-worthy.

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