Popular YouTuber and Twitch Streamer JiDion made national headlines today for being thrown out of two WNBA games and being promptly banned from all NBA, WNBA, and NFL events. JiDion has made his living on YouTube filming and presenting social experiments and live pranks on unassuming civilians. JiDion has built up quite the following over the past few years, amassing over 7.5 million subscribers on YouTube and more over other platforms.
JiDion got banned from all NBA-related events after pulling off this stunt at a WNBA game 💀 pic.twitter.com/bNMvBzu35t
— NBA Memes (@NBAMemes) July 20, 2023
Jidon ‘JiDion’ Adams has made a lot of basketball and NBA-centered content over the years of his career. He has become one of the premier NBA content creators alongside others such as Kristopher London or Jesser. Other creators focus on more glamorous and constructive basketball content with a majority of it being challenges or interviews with players. Adams, however, focuses on more comedy-centralized concepts like ‘Sleeping courtside at a WNBA game‘ or ‘Asking Jayson Tatum to tie my tie courtside‘.
These antics and stunts have made him quite popular among even the players if not the NBA administration. One of his closest friends happens to be Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Karl Anthony Towns.
JiDion is friends with multiple Minnesota Timberwolves players
Karl Anthony Towns and JiDion have one of the most hilarious relationships between an NBA star and an influencer. Although Adams is originally from Houston, Texas it seems he has now become a major fan of the Minnesota Timberwolves and that mainly is due to the influence of KAT. There is no conclusive evidence on how the duo met but we can trace their friendship back to one public event.
One year ago on March 31st of 2022, JiDion posted a video to his YouTube channel titled ‘Getting A Haircut During NBA Game!‘ in which he sat courtside at a Minnesota Timberwolves vs Dallas Mavericks Game and proceeded to get his almost balding head, cut. He had a whole gown and barber set up and many fans took notice. Even the commentators talked about it on the broadcast in a humorous manner. Eventually, JiDion was asked to leave by the referees and arena coordinators, to which he begrudgingly agreed.
This stunt caught the eyes and ears of Timberwolves star Karl Anthony Towns who met Adams in the tunnels after the game. The two exchanged pleasantries and JiDion regaled KAT with the tale of his forbidden barber shop.
This seems to have been the first meeting of the two celebrities and it has continued to this day, with Towns even introducing JiDion to teammate and fellow star Anthony Edwards and Minnesota Timberwolves legend, Kevin Garnett, both of whose numbers JiDion now possesses.