James Harden: put your beard on notice. Lil B is bringing his terrifying, real-life, serious-as-a-freaking-heart-attack curse to the Oracle Arena for game 5 of the Warriors V.S. Rockets on Wednesday.

Does it matter that the Rockets clawed their way back into the fringes of making this a series with a 128-115 win on Monday? Is it relevant that Steph Curry may have gotten concussed and/or beaten up when this happened last night?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfWpZWGuwk

NOPE.

Here’s what’s relevant: Lil B The Based God is coming to Oracle arena to oversee his doom-prophesying curse on James Harden.

Quick Context, here: back in 2011 one of the best basketball players of the last 10 years made a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mistake. He crossed The Based God.

Which might not seem like the biggest deal in the world until you consider how the rapper reacted: releasing a 3:48 second track creatively titled “Fuck Kevin Durant” and firing off a curse on KD that essentially turned the Slim Reaper into a walking, talking, NBA version of the Hope Diamond Curse.

KEVIN DURANT WILL NEVER WIN THE TITLE AFTER HE SAID "LIL B" IS A WACK RAPPER, "THE BASEDGODS CURSE"#THEBASEDGODSCURSE ON DURANT – Lil B — Lil B THE BASEDGOD (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) May 26, 2011

And that was Kevin Durant. A guy that certainly appears to be heading on a direct-route to the NBA Hall of Fame. Since the curse in 2011 Durant has gotten close-but-oh-so-far to that elusive, shadow-cursed title.

2011 Western Conference Finals: Thunder lose to Dallas Mavericks 4-1

2012 NBA Finals: Thunder lose to Miami Heat 4-1

2013 Western Conference Semis: Thunder lose to Memphis Grizzlies 4-1

2014 Western Conference Finals: Thunder lose to San Antonio Spurs 4-2

2015: Durant gets injured repeatedly and then Sam Presti hires a college coach

And this is James Harden. Make no mistake, he’s very good as well. But he, of all people, should have known not to cross Lil B. But, like the cocky frat boy from everyhorrormovieever, Harden appears to have flaunted his disregard for the very real and very immediate danger of the Lil B Curse and put his career in immediate jeopardy.

Here is what happened that started off this new Lil B Curse:

The part-time rapper and full-time Voodoo Shaman has gone on record stating that James Harden’s “Cooking Dance” that the MVP runner-up uses to celebrate a big play was, in fact, stolen from the Based God’s own endless dance-move repertoire.

Threats were made.

People that steal from Lil B will pay now or later all you have to do is pay respect to the original and the leader blind ones will – Lil B — Lil B THE BASEDGOD (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) May 22, 2015

Memes were created.

And now it has all come down to this:

.@LILBTHEBASEDGOD will be gracing Oracle Arena with his presence on Wednesday. #TYBG #DubNation — Oracle Arena (@OracleArena) May 26, 2015

With the Based God confirming what we all hoped would happen. He will be there. In person. To oversee James Harden’s crumbling, stumbling, end of days. Will there be weird chanting, drumming, incense, ritual raven sacrifice and potentially some eye of newt being tossed into a cauldron? I’m sure there will be.

Shouts out to @OracleArena we love you and appreciate you!!!! #THANKYOUBASEDGOD oracle family!!! Respect Oakland go @warriors – Lil B — Lil B THE BASEDGOD (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) May 26, 2015

Has the game-within-the-game between Lil B and Harden just become the best part of a thus-far relatively droll Conference finals season? Hell. Yes.

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