“Black Panther” is — in this writer’s opinion — one of the best superhero movies of all time, and certainly one of Marvel’s top cinematic offerings. It also had one of the coolest debut trailers in recent memory; a slick edit full of quick cuts to various action scenes with the always hype-inducing Run the Jewels soundtracking the background.
What do you get when you mix that with some cinematically edited clips of LeBron James to get the buzz going for his debut season with the Los Angeles Lakers? Chris Manning — aka @LD2K — set out to find out, and the result was as good as you’d expect from the master of Lakers mixes:
The video was even good enough to get the approval of Run the Jewels themselves:
With the start of training camp just a week away, what this video really reinforces is just how much more dope content there is going to be to consume about the Lakers now that they have their first relevant team in half a decade.