Nah. Still too expensive and out of shape. We can't have a guy Udoka is yelling at to play defense AND he's too fat to keep up AND he has an attitude about it. You don't know anything about team culture if you think it wouldn't matter that your lead ball handler is the anti-christ of your team culture. Don't @ me either, that's still my second favorite player in Rockets history and it hurts me to say all that about him. I'd love for him to retire here once he's getting paid a logical number like $10-15m.
If the Rockets really wanted Harden, they would have signed him over VanVleet in '23 in the first place, without loss of assets
23/9/5 on 46/39/91. Still elite at 36 years old and looking the best he has in years. Adding him to KD, Sengun, and Amen would elevate this offense to levels it hasn't seen since...the Harden Rockets. Get it done, Stone.
How is he out of shape when he's moving the best he has in years? He's shooting 75%(!) at the rim currently. You think he's beating his man and finishing consistently because he's fat? C'mon, you're better then this.
It is more some die hard Harden fans' wishes .......Harden played with Durant and for Ime as assistant in Brooklyn, he never made it to the Finals either. Since then OKC found 3 Harden successors in Shaivonte thru a fleecing trade, JayDub and Ajay Mitchell......and Topic is not even healthy. It is uncanny and Houston fans still yearn for an aging guy.
