The crew at BMO Harris Bradley Center are back at their trolling ways again. With the Cleveland Cavaliers in Milwaukee Tuesday night, the Milwaukee Bucks home arena unit decided to welcome LeBron James and company by playing the “Arthur” theme song during the Cavs players’ introductions, as noted by ESPN’s Dave McMenamin.
James and the Cavs have been occasionally using Arthur memes this season as a playful way of their expressing their feelings. James started the fad when he posted an image of Arthur’s closed fist on his Instagram account earlier this season.
The Arthur meme quickly caught on James’ teammates and it’s probably now part of Cleveland’s identity this season. No matter what happens, we will all look back at the 2017-18 campaign as the season Cleveland fell in love with Arthur.
The Bucks clearly are aware of this, thus the Arthur theme song. This also wasn’t the first time the Bucks used their arena’s amplifiers to mess with a visiting team. During last season’s playoffs, the Bucks trolled the Toronto Raptors by playing “Barney’s” theme song.
At the end of the day, it’s not the Bucks’ choice of in-house songs that will decide who wins the matchup between these two Eastern Conference title contenders.