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Morey Admits That James Harden Gets Treated Like He Owns the Rockets: Jeremy Lin is not Surprised by

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    Any doubt that James Harden largely runs the Houston Rockets should be thrown out the window. Rockets general manager Daryl Morey admitted as much in a startling TV interview that’s largely gone under the radar.

    “We almost treat him like an owner,” Morey said of Harden in a sit-down with TNT broadcast during Houston’s impressive double-overtime win over the Golden State Warriors last Thursday. “He’s a very sophisticated player. Very forward-thinking guy. He knows what wins.”

    That’s a rather emphatic admission for an NBA general manager to make about a star who hasn’t won anything yet — or even proven that he can successfully co-exist with another star-level player. Even LeBron James tries to pretend like he doesn’t run the Cleveland Cavaliers.

    But there is Morey, essentially putting Harden on the same level as Leslie Alexander, the self-made New York billionaire who actually does own Houston’s NBA franchise. It’s not like any of this is a surprise to anyone who’s tried to play with Harden in H-Town over the years. Jeremy Lin, Dwight Howard and Chandler Parsons are all very well aware of the reality.

    Heck, even a player with the skimpy resume of Donatas Motiejunas is seemingly trying to desperate escape from the Harden Rules All world of the Rockets. Team executives don’t usually admit to bowing down to a player in such a manner, though. Morey deserves some points for honesty — even if this approach to franchise building deserves plenty of questioning.

    Not having a true franchise player will keep any NBA team running in place. Just ask the Celtics.
    Then again, with Houston’s failure to attract marquee players in free agency (the Rockets didn’t even make Kevin Durant’s list of teams worthy of getting a meeting), Morey may not have much other choice. After the inexcusable discounting and dismissing of Lin and Howard’s problems with Harden, few seem eager to make the leap. In recent years, Chris Bosh, Carmelo Anthony, Al Horford and Durant have all responded, “No thanks.” Mike D’Antoni’s Seven Seconds or Less Offense is still a dream for any offensive player, but with Harden the Rockets essentially aren’t running the new coach’s core system.

    Harden is still dribbling the ball to death in large stretches — and dictating all the decisions. To call what the Rockets are doing free flowing would be disingenuous. Still, it’s working — and it represents a major improvement. It may be good enough for the fourth seed in the top-heavy Western Conference.

    James Harden may not be the perfect franchise player, but he’s much better than the stark alternative. Not having a franchise player at all is the true kiss of irrelevance in the NBA.

    Any Houston Rockets fans with lingering doubts about that only needed to watch the team’s 107-106 win over the Boston Celtics Monday night. Harden overpowered the Celtics smaller guards and befuddled their bigger wings — and there was nothing Boston coach Brad Stevens could about it. Even after the Celtics tirelessly built an eight-point fourth quarter lead, D’Antoni only had to insert Harden back into the game.

    The Rockets had a clear go-to closer. The Celtics didn’t know who to go to — right up until the end when Horford missed a driving layup for the win at the buzzer. Franchise players, even flawed ones, trump no franchise player every time that truly counts.

    The idea of an NBA star being treated like the owner of a team isn’t a bad one in theory. The players are the ones who make the league — not the billionaires lucky enough to buy in at the right time to make even more mega bucks.

    It’s just this particular player running a franchise that seems a little suspect. The Rockets are completely in James Harden’s hands — for better or for worse. Excited?
     
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    Let me guess - this is from that Baldwin dumbass?
     
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    First of all, there's no link to this unadulterated garbage, not that I care.

    What a muckraking, ****-brained article. Seriously, what was the point of this?? It's appalling that somebody that clearly lacks deductive reasoning (I feel safe in saying that based on the author's asinine correlation between the D-Mo situation, and Morey's interview) has a platform in which he's allowed to write even one paragraph on the Rockets. I hate what journalism has become......
     
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    LOL

    "or even proven that he can successfully co-exist with another star-level player"
     
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    FFS Chris Baldwin, its been like 3 years.

    What a hack.
     
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    This article stated "Any Houston Rockets fans with lingering doubts about that only needed to watch the team’s 107-106 win over the Boston Celtics Monday night."

    While I agree, I think a better statement would be "Any Rockets fans with lingering doubts about that only needs to remember all of the years of absolute mediocrity and irrelevance in the years post Yao/T-Mac and pre-Harden.
     
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    That is the most biased piece of **** article I have seen posted in a long time.
     
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    This is a terrible article. Considering it is coming from a member with only 10 posts, I really question the motive behind it. Obvious agenda is obvious.
     
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    dude is STILL talking about lin???? jesus ****ing christ.
     
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    Do these writers know that the rockets didn't draft Harden right?
     
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    3 years later, still damage control for a mediocre Jerry Lin.

    I guess it's Harden's fault Lin's a shet while playing for the Lakers
     
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    KD, Westbrook and Parsons say "Hi!"

    Bosh said yes then was offered an extra year by Miami. Don't blame him.
    Melo was never leaving NY.
    Al Horford just recently said had he come here Harden was one of the main reasons, didn't he?
    Durant, well there weren't enough superstars here for his"easy" path to a championship.
     
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    Its not damage control, its a bad write who knows he can get easily clicks by catering to fanatics.

    Just the absolute lowest form of no talent sellout writer to succumb to this garbage.
     
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    Sounds like he's hating!
     
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    Where's the "Jeremy Lin is not Surprised" part?
     
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    The Lin culture runs deep.

    In a Motiejunas thread on the realgm board, I refrained from responding to some dude's post about "chickens coming home to roost for Morey"; his username included a "BrookLin" picture, or some such thing.

    I've read references to Lin's fans on ESPN and such where they allude to the fervor without directly saying how g.d. annoying they are.

    Remember when Lin was with us: Clutch mentioned the most-watched videos he had posted on the site (is that still done?) were (1) of Lin making some play or another and (2) Beverly going down with an injury.

    Annoying. As. Hell.
     
    #18 ROXTXIA, Dec 7, 2016
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    What did I just read?

    Harden owns an NBA franchise and all he can get is a shuttle bus, a bodygaurd, and 200 racks for Bobby Brown? We need a new owner.. Fire James Harden.
     
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    What's this? This is not a DMo thread! #EndThreadNow
     
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