{"id":993,"date":"2022-12-17T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/17\/james-harden-says-there-was-no-structure-in-brooklyn-talkbasket-net\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:18:05","slug":"james-harden-says-there-was-no-structure-in-brooklyn-talkbasket-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/17\/james-harden-says-there-was-no-structure-in-brooklyn-talkbasket-net\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden says &#8216;there was no structure&#8217; in Brooklyn &#8211; TalkBasket.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-kevin-durant-james-harden-e1644221574516.jpg\" data-caption=\"Photo: David Liam Kyle\/NBAE via Getty Images\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-kevin-durant-james-harden-696x392.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-kevin-durant-james-harden-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-kevin-durant-james-harden-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-kevin-durant-james-harden-e1644221574516.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kyrie Irving\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: David Liam Kyle\/NBAE via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>James Harden\u2019s time with the Nets was short-lived. The former NBA MVP forced a trade from Houston to team up with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, but ended up forcing another trade \u2013 from Brooklyn \u2013 just a little over a year later.<\/p>\n<p>There were big hopes associated with the arrival of Harden who formed the bit three with his two fellow superstars, but it didn\u2019t turn out that way.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview the 33-year-old shooting guard opened up about his experience with the Nets and why he wanted out so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/nba\/james-harden-on-his-legacy-and-how-the-joel-embiid-partnership-is-key\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yaron Weitzman of FoxSports.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t mean to, like, just down talk to anybody or whatever. It was just, there was no structure and even superstars, they need structure. That\u2019s what allows us to be the best players and leaders for our respective organizations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also made a point that the events of this past offseason with Durant requesting a trade from the Nets further supports his notion that things were not right in Brooklyn, also refuting the notion that Harden is a quitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI just feel like,\u201d Harden continued, \u201cinternally, things weren\u2019t what I expected when I was trying to get traded there. I think everybody knows that. And I knew people were going to talk and say, \u2018You quit\u2019 and all that stuff, but then the following summer, the other superstar there [Durant] wanted to leave. So it\u2019s like: Am I still the quitter?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/156256-james-harden-says-there-was-no-structure-in-brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: David Liam Kyle\/NBAE via Getty Images James Harden\u2019s time with the Nets was short-lived. The former NBA MVP forced a trade from Houston to team up with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, but ended up forcing another trade \u2013 from Brooklyn \u2013 just a little over a year later. There were big hopes associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}