1. Ruins our depth
2. Ruins the team chemistry already built
3. Harden needs the ball 24/7 in his hand
4. Hardens personality is a big negative
5. We’re trying to get younger to match AD’s age, not sign another 31 year old star who will start to decline in three years or so.
No. I'm not trading potentially 7 or 8 years of THT excellence for 2 years of grumpy Harden. Not when we have a championship calibre team in the present and THT is a part of the future now that we've given up Brandon Future-MVP Ingram
Comes down to you dont turn down LeBron/Haden/AD plus complimentary parts like KCP, Gasol, Caruso, Matthews, Morris _________________ "He's a Zen master, so he can speak to you, and he doesn't need a microphone; you can hear him in your head, 'Ron, don't shoot, don't shoot.' Whatever, pow, three. I love the Zen, though."
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:28 pm Post subject:
I wouldn't, but Houston or Dreamshake would be crazy to turn down that package. That's a hell of a haul for a grumpy 31 yr old dude. But I see Houston being delusional about Harden's value and want a package similar to AD package with talented players as well as a bunch of picks.
Joined: 15 Sep 2012 Posts: 29279 Location: La La Land
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:46 pm Post subject:
So Schroeder, Trez, Kuzma, and THT for Harden. That's too much. Besides, I don't think the salary match up. Harden's getting paid 41 mill. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
building a 3-star squad from scratch at the expense of potential all-stars youths but still a lottery team, ok, but when you already have an improved championship squad that’s looking like the best and the deepest in the league, nah
F^%$ no. If the Lakers ever "won" a championship with Harden, it would finally validate all the BS takes that the refs gave it to them. Without ref assistance, Harden is miserable. The only thing more miserable are actual basketball fans who have to watch him play his horrific flop and jerk game. _________________ I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God. - Baruch Spinoza
Joined: 26 May 2016 Posts: 7825 Location: Long Beach
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:18 pm Post subject:
SD2Hollyweird wrote:
F^%$ no. If the Lakers ever "won" a championship with Harden, it would finally validate all the BS takes that the refs gave it to them. Without ref assistance, Harden is miserable. The only thing more miserable are actual basketball fans who have to watch him play his horrific flop and jerk game.
F^%$ no. If the Lakers ever "won" a championship with Harden, it would finally validate all the BS takes that the refs gave it to them. Without ref assistance, Harden is miserable. The only thing more miserable are actual basketball fans who have to watch him play his horrific flop and jerk game.
Harden would never get the same calls wearing a Laker uniform. Just look how the zebras treated Shaq, Kobe and now Lebron.
F^%$ no. If the Lakers ever "won" a championship with Harden, it would finally validate all the BS takes that the refs gave it to them. Without ref assistance, Harden is miserable. The only thing more miserable are actual basketball fans who have to watch him play his horrific flop and jerk game.
Harden would never get the same calls wearing a Laker uniform. Just look how the zebras treated Shaq, Kobe and now Lebron.
Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 4372 Location: Lake Nacimiento
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:36 pm Post subject:
IDC who we're giving up for him the answer will always be a hard NO. You see the last two seasons now where everyone is overpassing and cheering each other on? Harden won't be having that for long, gotta get those numbers.
We're the far and away favorites this season with an extremely bright and flexible future. You don't even take a call from the Rockets. Let him go rot the rest of his career somewhere else and make it rain in strip clubs country wide and get a few more jerseys retired that way.
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