For the championship to change 4 teams in 4 years, now there is no harvest! At the expense of data and accolades, Harden became the loser

Jialu takes stock of sports

2024-05-27 00:16Posted in Jiangxi Sports Creators

For Harden, he is no longer a sweet player this offseason, and some media reported that Harden has only two options this summer, take a lower salary to other championship teams to continue to work hard to realize his dream, or complete a contract extension with the Clippers, with a high probability of getting a contract similar to 2+1 or 1+1, the last year player option. After so many failures, Harden is 34 years old, compared to the superstar when he first left the Rockets, now that Harden's peak has come to an end, there are not many options for him.

For the championship, Harden sacrificed a lot of things, if he wants to get the data, or a super cap salary, he can continue to stay in the Rockets, in the season before leaving the Rockets, Harden was also able to get 34.3 points, 6.6 rebounds and 7.5 assists, selected as an All-Star and the best first team, or the league's scoring champion, at that time he was a top five player in the league.

As long as he wants to continue to play such statistics, then he has the ability to do it, after all, the Rockets were his team at that time, and all the configurations were built around Harden, and in a familiar tactical system, it was not difficult for Harden to play his previous performance. And the team is also interested in completing a long-term contract with him, treating him as an absolute cornerstone. As long as he doesn't leave, Harden will have personal honors, super cap salary, and team tactical status.

However, Harden is tired of getting luxury stats but not being able to achieve results, and he realizes that staying with the Rockets will not achieve his goals, and he can only go to a better team if he wants to challenge for a championship. Eventually, in the 20-21 season, Harden requested a trade and left the Rockets, which also changed Harden's career and made him a loser.

In the past 4 years, Harden has changed 4 teams, from the Rockets to the Nets, then was traded to the 76ers, and finally came to the Clippers.

The Nets' Big Three roster looks luxurious, but injuries and uncertainty hurt the team, and the Nets' best result is only the division semifinals. The situation is similar with the 76ers, Harden and Embiid performed very well in the regular season, and the run-in effect was very good, and some media even compared them to an "OK" combination, but for two years, the team stopped in the division semifinals, and finally left unpleasantly.

What happened with the Nets was repeated with the Clippers, who looked luxurious with a number of All-Star players, but in the playoffs, Leonard's injury once again stood in the way of the Clippers, who were eliminated in the first round and only made it to Game 6.

Looking back at Harden's experience in the past four years, leaving the Rockets is indeed a bad decision, because since then he has been denied various honors, and his personal data has plummeted, the team's tactical position has gradually changed from the number one star to the third choice, and there is also a lot of loss in salary. And that's not the worst, Harden's goal when he left the Rockets was to hit the championship, and now there is no result, from the division semifinals to the first-round exit, the results are getting worse and worse year by year, and with the rise of other young teams, Harden's chances of winning the championship are getting lower and lower.

From these perspectives, Harden has indeed become a loser, the price to pay for the championship is too great, and those sacrifices have not yet paid off, and everything Harden is going through at this stage may be paying for the decision to leave the Rockets, and if he hadn't left, maybe the situation would have been very different.

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