Dwight Howard, James Harden Must ‘Figure It Out’ Now and Tuesday NBA Takeaways

March 22nd, 2016 by Josh Martin Leave a reply »

During a recent chat with USA Today's Sam Amick, Dwight Howard insisted all is well between him and James Harden, and the two Houston Rockets stars have the rest of the season and playoffs to “figure out how to make this thing work.”

"I have no hate in my blood for this man, you know? For what?," Howard told Amick. "He came from nothing. We both came from nothing. And we’re doing something that we love. We grew up playing this game for fun, and we had big dreams of making it to the NBA."

He may feel differently about his bearded brother-in-arms after the way the Rockets closed out a 111-107 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday.

One thing is clear: These two can’t simply wait to get it together.

With the clock winding under seven seconds in the fourth quarter and Houston down by a bucket, Harden flicked an errant left-handed lob off the dribble to Howard, who couldn't corral the ball from two OKC defenders. Dion Waiters deflected the pass, and it ended up in the hands of Russell Westbrook, who drew Harden's sixth foul and all but put the game to bed with a pa ...

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