I would have assumed that James got all the titillation he needed over the (short) break. Guess he's still untitled for now. Also, breasts.
I expected a difficult season without this mess. Players and staff have to quarantine and undergo massive testing, everyday procedure is being weird enough.
No, he being extremely immature and unprofessional. If he decides to show up and work his ass off this season, I will support him a little again.
I support him as a basketball player, I don't support him as a person. He's an amazing basketball player, but he seems to be a fairly garbage human. At least, that's the image he's putting out there.
I've always been marginally on the Harden wagon because he lacks some of the leadership skills I feel are necessary to win and he's just kind of aloof and gives the appearance that he's not 100% in it sometimes. He really began losing me when he forced CP3 out. That made it clear to me that he can't play with other stars. The Westbrook trade crippled the franchise and we'll be dealing with that for a long time.
Just think if James Harden was playing for $50,000 / year like the average American makes he would have been at the TC 15 minutes before the doors opened to make sure he looked good for his boss. Since they paid him $40,000,000 / year he doesn't have to respect his job because he doesn't have to work. He can give his boss the middle finger and go party and not worry about a thing and the unions protect him. Still a fan of this guy and the NBA?
It's all about scarcity, a talent like Harden's can't be replaced, thus he can do pretty much what he wants to do while he still has it.....and it's also the reason why they discard broken down old players like trash once their usefulness is at an end. That's just how that line of work is. While I agree that the league has needed to reign in the players for a long time now, they'll always hold a ton of power given that basketball is the kind of sport where a handful of individual players are really all that matters.
It's not money, it's value. Harden has more value due to his talent and the league that has been built for him than 99.9% of the world, thus he's less accountable than 99.9% of the world so long as that talent remains. Once he loses that value, and he will just like all athletes, he'll be nearly worthless and all he'll have left is the money if he was wise with it.
Can I choose option C? I don't trust we are receiving all the information and will wait to pass judgement.
Yea, if you don't like your job then you go get a new one. Though the pandemic partying is incredibly stupid. No, you fall in line and get mad. You know damn well if you don't like your job you just do it anyway because that is being professional. And you do this until you die.
Player empowerment gone too far. Tilman tells Harden to honor his word (his contract) -- ElPigto: "How dare you treat Harden so disparagingly! He is royalty. Kiss the ring, b****es!" Oh wait, he has no rings...
its Lebron James fault, LBJ always had the option to be the GM, build his roster , pick players from other teams to join him, surrounded him self with excellent talents and getting all the credit to be in GOAT conversation, meanwhile , Harden had to wait for years for Daryl to surround him with decent Center, PF,SF,PG etc and it was always deformed poor fits and selection , it was not mainly due to lack of spending , it was mainly based on poor allocation to available funding . so is it Harden's fault that he does not want to be a part of cleaning up mess from past era! not really
I was already on edge with Harden. He's run every star out of here we have put along side him. And I'm sorry, but Dwight absolutely out played Harden in the playoffs while here. Harden scores 100 points in 3 quarters, but half the time has no energy for the last 4 minutes when we need those points. Instead of changing his game, the coaches double down and pretend like "well there is nothing we can do but give him more energy....but not by being smarter with his minutes or usage, nah we cant do that."
No, he's acting very immature in pretty much every facet of this situation. He's a grown man and needs to act like one.
The only year Dwight was better than Harden in the playoffs was maybe 2014, Harden was definitely better in 2015 and 2016.
