Def in good fun and highlighted because hes a superstar more than really being a "fool" 30/30 teams would glady have him on their roster and 20-24 teams would trade anyone on their roster for him without hesitation. Agenda driven for sure.
those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Nah, Bearded Fellah....pretty much everyone minds and it really does matter that you mind next year or we won't matter much again. Well deserved Shaqtin a Fool MVP. Big Harden fan here, not a hater...but dude still needs a good amount of maturity & mental growth to go with all that supreme talent. He'll be 27 next season. Still young, but the time is now to stop giving people ammo to make these compilations of gaffes. His DGAF moments last year were so bad it rivaled the videos of JaVale McGee as "dumbest player in the NBA" "Top 10 stupid plays by JaVale McGee." The Rockets fandom went absolutely nuts on that 1 infamous TMac play where he quit on D. Harden gave us many of those last season. I'd say his leash is 1 season long. 1 season under D'Antoni, and if he goes back to back with non-champion-level effort/care, then he has to be traded before he walks for nothing. We're not there yet, so don't roast me for saying that. I'm optimistic Harden can get it together. But he does not have a carte blanche blank check next season. He absolutely cannot roll out the same effort as he did last season. He will not be forgiven a 2nd time.
Embarrassing for a so-called star player to be featured on this. This is why people have a negative opinion of Harden. All these plays are inexcusable.
It is embarrassing that a former All Star is reduced to pretending to be a sports analyst, and when he isn't making himself a fool "analyzing" games on TV, he's playing the clown, a much better role for Shaquille, since being a clown comes so easily for him. This is a perfect example. Attempting to tear down one of the top players in the league as a "joke," when O'Neal himself has been reduced to a walking, talking joke on cable television. Oh, how the mighty have fallen, and it isn't James Harden.
your bile and animosity are misplaced.... it should be for the lazy prima donna that decides that giving up easy buckets is no big deal... It occurs to me that James wouldn't have to work so hard on offense - if he didn't give up so many points on defense.... but its all a media conspiracy based on who people's agents are blah blah blah... denial is more than just a river in Egypt... lol
You're right man. What ESPN says through Shaq's silly comedy segment is what everyone should be focusing on. Not the real world money trail leading Shaq to want to make Howard look good or the fact that Harden is objectively not anywhere near the player whose plays are most messed up in the NBA. That's irrelevant. How silly of us right.
You guys know this is voted on by the fans right? NBA TV and TNT just provide the candidates and Harden definitely had his share of foolish moments!
I'm pretty sure one of these moments on the lowlight real was against Demar Derozan. What's stupid about people that criticize him for that play is he had 4 or 5 fouls, couldn't afford to lose him in a close game, and the game went to overtime where Harden won the game for us. You can't look at this **** in a vacuum. It's not as simple as just giving up on defense. Sometimes, you have to play smart and not always go hard on defense, especially if you are your teams only good offensive player. It's times like those your teammate HAVE to step up on the defensive end and basically play 4.5 on 5 so you can continue dominating on the offensive end.
All the Aholes on page 1 owe the OP an apology. Dude got cliqued on for bringing up a topic that turned out to be so true. Media blacklist continues for Harden.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Patrick Beverley is AC to Harden's OJ. Says him gettin 41-41 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rockets?src=hash">#Rockets</a> to playoffs should make him <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MVP?src=hash">#MVP</a> ... Seriously <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShaqtinAFool?src=hash">#ShaqtinAFool</a></p>— J. Michael (@JMichaelCSN) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMichaelCSN/status/743178112133828608">June 15, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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That clip from the Pistons game where he stood flat-footed under the basket while they got the offensive board still makes me angry. I'd forgotten about that.
