Both players right now.

E feel like I'm the best player.

James Clutch.

He's adorable.

Faction for three got it hard again.

Another three Mary Beard strikes again.

By the time James Harden was winning sixth Man of the Year in 2012 with the thunder, the beard had become a brain stretching out beyond his chin and overtaking the distinguishing elements of his lower face.

He was just the beer.

He had a chemistry.

My role was to come off the bench, and that was for the better of the team.

He was the perfect counterweight to his star Thunder teammates, the bridge between Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

With the three, it appeared the road through the Western Conference would have to stop in O K C for years to come.

Sampras He called me and he just said that, you know, Sorry, we love you, but, you know, we faded you to the Houston Rockets.

That was very, very sad night.

It's the kind of trade that has become something of legend.

The harden trade branching, endless.

What ifs about a lost under dynasty.

We have big plans that we were gonna win a championship for years, find equipment.

Instantly, Harden validated his star power first game.

I had 37 points and 12 assists.

Next time I had 45 points.

Those two games gave me that confidence.

That was gonna be all right.

I was gonna be good at this point.

It looked like his beard had grown a beard.

He started the process of breaking basketball, pushing isolation offense to its limits, drawing fouls and shooting volume threes.

He stockpiled scoring titles, winning the last three along with an M V P.

In 2018, he took the Rockets to the brink twice to the Western Conference finals and a Game seven home loss away from the finals in 2018.

We had opportunities.

We just didn't have that extra juice that we needed.

I think it's been clear that the Rockets there many attempts to find a partner in crime for James Harden, like that time has expired.

Unfortunately, he had star teammates from Dwight to CP three to Russ, each partnership running its course.

Theo End of the Hard Nera in Houston brings reflection on those close calls on high profile failures.

But It was also the evolution of a quirky, crafty, unconventional score into an offensive savant hardens approach was debated and discussed is relentless pursuit of the next bucket at all costs polarizing.

It's not fun to watch a guy dribble the ball between seconds, and he still takes a shot.

This is not good basketball.

Eventually, time ran out on finding the next lever to pull on.

Now Harden is moving on.

But one thing's for sure.

The beard ain't going anywhere.

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