James Harden hasn't let his past success with the Oklahoma City Thunder interrupt his antagonism of his old club as a member of the Houston Rockets.
On Tuesday night, Harden took another step or two toward being a full-blown villain within the borders of the Sooner State. According to Rockets.com's Jason Friedman, Harden took to barking at the rowdy Chesapeake Arena crowd about their love for him during the Rockets' latest visit to OKC:
Not that his claim is in any way shocking. When Harden last wore a Thunder uniform in June of 2012, he did so in the NBA Finals—as the league's Sixth Man of the Year, no less. Harden's series against the Miami Heat wasn't pretty (12.4 points on 37.5 percent shooting), but the then-23-year-old swingman was no less vital to OKC advancing that far in the first place. He tortured the Dallas Mavericks, the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference playoffs, thereby solidifying OKC as a dynasty-in-the-making and himself as a key cog therein.
Or so it seemed. Four months later, the failure of the Thunder and Harden to bridge a relatively meager gap i ...
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James Harden to Thunder Fans: ‘You Loved Me When I Was Here… It’s That Simple’
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