‘Courtside Karen’ Juliana Carlos gains more than 50K Insta followers in a day after clashing with LeBron James
Juliana Carlos, who is now dubbed "Courtside Karen", has reportedly gained over 80,000 followers on Instagram after her sensational feud with LeBron James. During a Laker-Hawks game on Monday, the wife of Atlanta businessman Chris Carlos -- who was also present at the game -- verbally clashed with the NBA superstar before footage of their altercation went viral online. Juliana and her husband were booted from the Lakers-Atlanta Hawks game Monday night after she verbally abused James to defend her husband without her face mask on. However, after an apology for her conduct, Juliana has garnered more than 80,000 Instagram followers, rising from a total of 25,000 to 83,200 in just one day, The Sun reported.
46-year-old James claimed during Monday's clash that he and Chris Carlos had been exchanging words throughout the game and that the Hawks fan, at some point, "went a little bit out of bounds." But Juliana wouldn't have any of it. She pulled her face mask off and yelled at James: “Shut the f**k up. Don't talk to my husband like that.”
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Juliana shared her side of the story online after she and her husband were ejected from State Farm Arena. She wrote on Instagram that “King James is a f**king joke” and a “f**king loser.” “To say things escalated quickly at yesterday’s game is an understatement, and I want to apologize for losing my cool and removing my mask in the heat of the moment,” she later wrote in a message on Instagram.
The Carlos' have turned their accounts private following the spat, but on Wednesday, it emerged that Chris Carlos has disliked LeBron for the longest time. Internet sleuths scoured through his social media post and found that in 2017, a year after James won his third title, Chris wrote: "Can you tell I don't like this guy." In another post, the Hawks fan wrote: "He almost sat his big ass on my wallet and phone."
Earlier this week, MEAWW reported how James came under harsh criticism on Twitter -- with some labeling him a 'misogynist and racist' -- after Juliana Carlos accused the player of calling her a 'f*****g b***h." "So I am minding my own business, and Chris has been a Hawks fan forever," Juliana said in a clip she posted online. "He's been watching Hawks games for ten years whatever... he has this issue with LeBron, I don't have an issue with LeBron, and I don't give a fuck about LeBron. Anyway, I am minding my own business, drinking my (beeps) and having fun...all of a sudden, LeBron says something to my husband. And I see this, and I get up and say, "Don't fucking talk to my husband, and he goes..."Sit the fuck down bitch."
Soon after the game, LeBron, on his part said fans coming back to the stadium was good news. "I missed that interaction,” he said. “I need that interaction. We as players need that interaction. I don’t think it was warranted to be kicked out.” However, he later tweeted, "Courtside Karen was MAD MAD!!"