[Shams via The Athletic] Signs of Tension between James Harden, Rockets teammates early on

He’s not the total cause but he’s contributed to it. He’s the one that wanted WB here, and apparently wanted to be traded if we didn’t get him. There’s plenty of blame to go around at this point. I feel bad for the new guys.

 

apparently Harden has a history of violence with throwing basketballs

 

He ain’t no Jimmy Butler

Backups were beating starters, talking trash when James Harden threw ball at teammate

“Sources say the root of Harden’s exchanges was the nature of an intrasquad scrimmage during Monday’s practice. A source says the second unit — which included Tate and backup center DeMarcus Cousins — were outplaying the starters. According to a source, at one point, Tate scored a tough basket on Harden and let him know about it, which prompted the exchange.”

 

Lol ... Big alpha male knew better than to mess with Boogie though

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Sore loser.

Tate: 'Yo, better throw your dollars at me, bruh.'

 

Hell yeah! I was hoping Tate would be this kind of dude.

 

Throw so Harden.

 

Monbear better fire up a Twitter response for this. Maybe Harden was just flirting with Tate.

 

Giannis heard this story and did payback for that girl.

 

Also, I'm assuming this was before puberty because umm...

Harden and his libido are famous today.

 

Tate all up in Hardens grill.
I love it!

Silas got the 2nd unit locked in!

 

I can confirm this is what was said. Harden was pissed because he thought Tate meant Australian Dollars and the exchange rate is not favorable

 

YOU were THAT girl amirite?

It explains a Rockets fans unrelenting hate for Harden.

 

So that's what it takes to get Harden riled up. A rookie punking him.

How that ranks above Matt Barnes talking trash to his mother is beyond me... but at least we know what fires him up.

 

I think it's hilarious the people defending him are like "look i did the same thing when i played ball for my dads ymca team no big deal!"

I mean yeah, you were a kid lol this is a professional. Everyone so hyper focused on the ball throwing but overlooking the article mentioned that this was "out of character" for Harden and he looked visibly frustrated. Implying that he isn't just throwing balls at teammates every time it gets heated in practice.

He is not happy here and it's showing it more ways than one

 

Young boys use light violence to establish interest for the opposite gender early on.

It is reverse psychology.

 

Right now we don’t care if he is happy or not. The org won’t just do whatever James wants anymore, which is good. He can either play even if he is unhappy or go out partying again and get fine and lose his pay.

Mgmt is doing what’s best for the Rockets and their future so until they get the best deal Harden’s not going anywhere.

Yea maybe we won’t be great this season but I’ll take that over getting crumps or a bad deal like the media is pushing for. So far they looked pretty good actually.

Plus we know Harden likes to hoop so even if he is upset he will play well. He has been professional in practice besides that incident, it’s not like people don’t get upset during games or practices. So it’s all cool.

Worse would be if he didn’t care or hadn’t even gelled with Wood in their first game together. Btw have you seen his videos on pickup games? He gets upset when he loses so it’s probably what happened there.

 

Lol 13 is no alpha.

 

Kelly Iko