The bizarre exchange caught on camera between a fan sitting courtside and LeBron James, leading to the fan being ejected, has morphed into its own kind of viral storm. The fan who was seen with her mask pulled down and yelling at LeBron has been identified as Juliana Carlos, as she took to social media to tell her side of the story as to why she was ejected from the game.
Shortly after many were tweeting out the videos from Carlos’ Instagram story and other publicly available details about her and her husband, Chris Carlos, who is a noted businessman in the Atlanta area. James then tweeted about it on Twitter, using the nickname many are using for Mrs. Carlos, “Courtside Karen.” James tweeted that she was “MAD MAD” which led to the hashtag #CourtsideKaren to trend on Twitter late Monday night and into early Tuesday morning.
Courtside Karen was MAD MAD!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
— LeBron James (@KingJames) February 2, 2021
For the record, James didn’t have any hard feelings about the ordeal after the game.
LeBron said he thinks it would have been fine if the fan hadn't been close to the refs.
"They might have had a couple drinks maybe… The referees did what they had to do… I don't want to say he went overboard, but I think he went pretty close to out of bounds."
— Harrison Faigen (@hmfaigen) February 2, 2021
There were plenty of other classic reactions after LeBron’s tweet, however.
