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ESPN’s Brian Windhorst Reports James Harden Wants Out Of Brooklyn, Suggests Harden Is Willing To Sabotage Season

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  • ESPN NBA Senior Writer Brian Windhorst lays out the current situation with James Harden and the Brooklyn Nets
  • Windhorst suggest that James Harden is screaming to get out of Brooklyn and the situation could soon sabotage the Nets
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The current situation between the Brooklyn Nets and James Harden is less than ideal for Nets fans. Harden hasn’t played in seven days and only scored 4 points in 37 minutes in his last game against the Sacrament Kings during Brooklyn’s road trip.

ESPN NBA Senior Writer Brian Windhorst was speaking with Mike Greenberg on ESPN Radio where he lays out just how bad the situation is and how quickly it erupted. Windhorst suggest that James Harden wants a trade and he wants it now. Not only that, Brian suggests that things could get a lot worse for the Nets if they don’t trade James Harden ASAP. Here’s the video clip from ESPN Radio along with the quotes below.

ESPN’s Brian Windhorst Reports James Harden Wants Out Of Brooklyn

If you’d rather read than watch, here’s some of what ESPN’s Brian Windhorst had to say about James Harden:

“You gotta be very careful using the ‘q word’ or saying whatever but his actions over the past 10 days are basically a threat to the Nets.
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James Harden, until he hurt his hamstring in a game in the first quarter last Spring and had to leave the game in the first quarter, he had scored in double figures in 450 consecutive games. He’s one of the greatest scorers in NBA history. After he got healthy from that, he then had a streak of 44 consecutive games (scoring double figures).

Last week in Sacramento, he played 37 minutes and scored 4 points. And that doesn’t even articulate the effort level he gave on defense in that game. Then he basically shut it down for the rest of that road trip and he is screaming in every way he possibly can ‘I don’t want to be here, get me out of here.’ Just like he did in Houston.”

And so what the real issue here for the Nets is not the consequences of making this deal, it’s the consequences of not making this deal. If they don’t do this trade, what is James Harden going to do the rest of this season? And then, of course, what is he going to do when he becomes a free agent in the Summer? That’s what has spurred this into being. James Harden’s basic feeling that ‘I don’t want to be here anymore.'”

Since James Harden has sat out the Brooklyn Nets have lost three games in a row (Celtics, Nuggets, and Jazz). Harden was on a pretty prolific scoring streak prior to his 4-point game on 2/2 against the Kings. He’d put up 22 points against Phoenix, 33 against the Lakers, 13 against Minnesota, and 37 against San Antonio.

But we are seeing patterns here reminiscent from James Harden’s last days in Houston.

What’s next for James Harden? It’s possible the Philadelphia 76ers could put together enough pieces for a deal but Kyle Neubeck of the Philly Voice writes that the secondary pieces of the deal are what’s holding anythign up from materializing. Then there’s this from yesterday:

Philly fans, would you welcome this trade? Are you ready to bring in James Harden and ship out Ben Simmons?