And lost the series, cause he will do what he did for most of a decade in Houston Choke and choke harder
I don’t want him back I don’t even want his jersey retired But our dummy owner already committed to it So
I swear Harden fan boys forgot HE FORCED HIS WAY OUT Dummy owner offered the max, Harden the fraud said no. How many teams since? How many rings since?
Durant quit on this ****ing team, and then Durant will force his way out after next year, Harden been wanting to come back since 2023 to play with the young guys and help them grow HIRING ****ING IME HAS BEEN A MISTAKE.
Stone did a calculation and none of the players he could have acquired, Ayo, Harden, Schroeder, White, would have led to us being better than OKC so he just gave up on the season.
Kinda funny to say this in Harden's thread whose teams are known for taking on some of the most imposing NBA dynasties out there in Golden Gate The front office had put out an inferior product for the fans to stomach this year. Way to let them off the hook there despite it.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ip-void-why-houston-rockets-season-ended-thud THE ROCKETS BEGAN this rebuild in February 2021, when they traded former MVP James Harden to the Brooklyn Nets. But Harden's presence has never really left the franchise. Over the past several years, according to team sources and those close to Harden, there has been mutual interest in a reunion. The first opportunity for it came in 2023, when the organization chose to sign VanVleet to a three-year, $130 million contract, rather than pursue Harden after he had failed to land a maximum contract extension with the Philadelphia 76ers. The next opportunity came this season, when Harden's representatives gauged the Rockets' interest in him following the LA Clippers' 6-21 start. After VanVleet's injury, a reunion with their former point guard made a lot more sense, they thought. And Houston was closer to contention after trading for Durant in the offseason, and Harden was still playing at a high level. Once again, though, the Rockets decided against it, despite the team's void at point guard. As fondly as they still regarded Harden, there was a wariness about how he would affect the development of Sengun, Sheppard and Thompson. "We're not really looking for a heliocentric player, as great as James still is," one team source said. "We want to develop Reed, we want to develop Amen and we want the ball in Alpy's hands." As another said, "We weren't going to put the ball in [Harden's] hands, so why would you trade for James if you're not going to give him the ball?" That decision reverberated for the rest of the season and throughout the first-round playoff series, as all three young players matched tantalizing moments with inexplicable ones, where poor decision-making or shooting led directly to losses.
He was not awful, but a bit subpar shooting the ball, but he contributed in other ways. He almost had a triple double in game 6. If the Rocket's had a player who did everything Harden did against Toronto, the Rockets are in the 2nd round. Stone better hit this offseason out the park for how he sat on his hands all year.
