We’ve seen LeBron James do some petty things over the years.

From pouting about the foul calls he didn’t get to subtweeting frustrations with teammates and even trolling the Golden State Warriors at his Halloween party, “King James” is the king of pettiness.

But his beef with Alabama over “Shop Talk” is a new level of petty.

In case you missed it, the NBA megastar took exception to Alabama’s new video series. That included sending a formal letter to the Alabama football program claiming that “Shop Talk” infringed on Uninterrupted’s copyright and that it “significantly damaged” the commercial opportunities for James’ “The Shop.”

As expected, Nick Saban responded by saying that he thought there were 20 different barbershop-related things on TV and that he didn’t even know that James had one of them. And no, Alabama wasn’t going to end “Shop Talk” just because James basically threatened to take legal action. In fact, Alabama has another episode coming out today, according to Ben Jones of the Tuscaloosa News.

Then, as only James could, he doubled down on some awful legal advice with a response to Saban’s response (via @SpinDavies):

There’s a lot to unpack there.

First, James said that was exactly the type of response that he expected from Saban. In other words, he knew some letter wasn’t going to prevent Saban and the Tide from doing something they wanted to do.

But there are a few things that didn’t make sense. If James expected Saban to claim that there were 20 different barbershop-talk things on TV, why is James insistent that his is the only one that is allowed to exist? Did James suddenly buy the rights to having a camera on at a barbershop? Last I checked, the movie “Barbershop” did that 16 years ago.

For now, let’s move past the vain idea that James was somehow the pioneer of the barbershop premise in entertainment.

There’s something that he said that really got me fired up:

“…but I built ‘Uninterrupted’ for a reason, for us athletes to have a platform to be able to speak about whatever we want to talk about. I respect (Saban) as a coach, but I’ll be damned if I allow someone to use our platform to try to do the same thing we’re doing and just think it’s OK.”

Waaaaaait a minute. This is James speaking here. You know, the same guy who was infamously told recently to “shut up and dribble” by Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. James, as he should have, refused to do that.

But now James is trying to say that because “Shop Talk” is a platform that allows athletes to speak about whatever they want to talk about, it’s not OK because it isn’t through “Uninterrupted.”

Are we seeing the irony here?

How DARE Julio Jones go back to his alma mater’s facility barbershop for a video series instead of sharing his thoughts on the “Uninterrupted” platform! Doesn’t he know that James already built a one-stop shop (pun intended) for athletes to speak their minds?!

Goodness gracious. Even Alabama, which basically sends cease and desists any time someone uses a red letter ‘A’, can see just how petty James is being. Even Clay stinkin’ Travis, who has been known to oppose Alabama’s legal battles, can see just how petty James is being.

I look forward to when “the lawyers get involved” because it means we’re going to see some of these claims more specifically. As in, we’ll actually see the exact reasons James’ team is so opposed to a college football team having a documentary series that takes place in a barbershop. You know James wouldn’t care if this were Colorado State. But because it was the massive brand of Alabama football and the series featured a massive NFL superstar like Jones, James tried to play the “King” card.

James is a king, alright. He is the king of being unnecessarily petty. And pretty soon, he’s going to be the king of one of the silliest lawsuits in sports history.

Oh no. I just said “sports.”

Don’t sue me, LeBron.