The Houston Rockets won a tough road game on Friday night, 116-112, over the Golden State Warriors. As usual, the raucous crowd at Oracle Arena gave the opposing team an earful, but for once the loudest boos were not saved for perennial whipping boy Dwight Howard.
Instead, it was Howard's star teammate, James Harden, who drove the crowd into a fit of rage when he milked a Draymond Green foul for all it was worth, leading to a flagrant foul call.
Last season, the idea of Harden inspiring such hate would have been nearly unthinkable. He was the guard with the electrifying game and the shaggy beard who had emerged from the shadow of his sixth-man role in Oklahoma City to become an All-Star in Houston.
But this season, the whispers are growing. More and basketball fans are speaking ill of Harden, picking his game apart. Flopper. Lazy D. No D. One-dimensional.
The Internet is slowly-but-surely filling with anti-Harden articles—critiques of his defense, him yelling at Jeremy Lin—and the standard "Is Harden Overrated" fan forums.
Does this hate simply come with the ...
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Learning to Loathe James Harden
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