One former Cavalier is not at Team LeBron this time.
Retired forward YES and ESPN analyst Richard Jefferson has been caught up in several Instagram posts by Juliana Carlos, who gained 15 minutes of notoriety and the LeBron James-blessed nickname, “Courtside Karen”, after her harsh performance during the Hawks -Lakers game Monday night. .
“Richard Jefferson is getting Lebron dirty by keeping 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’ photos.
The 40-year-old Jefferson played for eight teams during his 18-year career, including the Cavaliers during James’ return to Cleveland. The pair won the 2016 NBA Championship and are close.
Jefferson, perhaps jokingly, did not refute the accusation and even went a step further.
‘Wait you can see it? “I’m in her side,” he said wrote in a quote just moments later.
Carlos – who claims to be 25 years old on social media – was one of four fans expelled from Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Monday after having a word fight with the Lakers star in the fourth quarter. She holds both middle fingers up while being escorted and posts a video explicitly loaded on Instagram claiming James was the one who started the feud by cursing her husband, Chris Carlos.
“I have no problem with LeBron,” she said. “I do not care much about LeBron. Anyway, I think about my own business and drink my [beverage], pret have. Suddenly LeBron says something to my husband, and I see it and I get up. And I’m going to say, ‘Do not talk to my husband.’ And he looks at me and he goes, ‘Put the f – k down, b – h.’ And I go: ‘Do not call me – h. You put down the f – k. Remove the f – k from here. Do not talk to my husband like that. ‘”
After the game, James (36) created the nickname “CourtsideKaren”, which tended to be on Twitter hours later, causing a flood of #CourtsideKaren memes.
“Courtside Karen was MAL MAL !!” James tweeted after the 107-99 victory of the Lakers in which he scored 21 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists.
“At the end of the day, I’m glad fans are back in the building,” James told reporters. “I do not feel it is fair to be kicked 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 into it and said their piece. I did not think they should be kicked out, but maybe they might have had a few drinks, and they would probably have been able to keep it going and the game would not have gone over the game anymore, so the referees did what they had to do. ”
The Lakers move to 16-6 this season after Monday’s victory and will face the Nuggets (12-8) in the Staples Center on Thursday.