re: WOJ BOMB: Westbrook traded to Wiz for Wall and 1st round pick

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. People get tired of him very quickly, and it's funny how it's always the other person's fault.

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Find me one quote that would serve as evidence that anyone has got tired of James Harden. Dwight Howard didn't get re-signed because he wasn't cutting it, not because of James Harden and his performance along with his team hopping afterwards is evidence of that. CP3 had no intention of leaving until Harden lobbied for Westbrook.

You can argue Harden is reactionary when it comes to his most talented teammates but there's no evidence to suggest that anyone has left the Rockets because of him. None. Its an MSB fairytale that's been cooked up in an echo chamber of intense burning Harden hate.

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And if Iggy was healthy the entire series it wouldn't have been as close as it was.

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Right.


I usually refrain from engaging with Rockets/Harden talk on here and this is why. Every narrative that could possibly exist related to the Rockets get sucked into the blackhole of irrational hate. The entire gravity of the conversations moves to the worst possible take on the Rockets.

Harden is not a team cancer, he has never been a team cancer, and he never will be a team cancer. He's a top 10 NBA player at minimum and he's had as much team success as the best player on his team as anyone in the NBA outside of LeBron and Durant.