James Harden appears to throw shade at Rockets front office

Brooklyn Nets star James Harden has repeatedly proclaimed that it might be “scary hours” for the remainder of the NBA now that he, Kevin Durant, and Kyrie Irving are all lastly wholesome.

Whereas it’s unclear if Harden and Durant are following Irving’s lead by way of rejecting COVID-19 vaccination, which might be an enormous drawback for his or her house video games, the Nets are nonetheless the clear-cut favorites within the Jap Convention.

Harden mentioned he’s not in a rush to decide about signing his extension with the Nets, saying he’s extra centered on profitable his first championship. The previous MVP praised Nets proprietor Joseph Tsai and common supervisor Sean Marks for “doing issues the suitable manner.” However within the course of, it seems Harden additionally took a swipe on the Houston Rockets entrance workplace (through Heavy).

“I’ve been right here, what, not even a 12 months, and the love and assist that—not even from the coaches and whatnot, it’s from the entrance workplace, they’ve proven me we’re completely different and we wish to talk, and we wish to make it possible for everyone’s concerned. They wish to do what’s proper always. It’s been nice, communication, like I preserve harping on, could be very large with me. They’ve been doing an important job with that.”

Harden didn’t have the most effective of exits with the Rockets final season. He didn’t completely belief common supervisor Rafael Stone after changing Daryl Morey. The communication broke off between Harden and the Rockets brass for a while earlier than he was lastly shipped to the Nets in a midseason commerce.

It’s extremely potential that James Harden was simply merely praising the Nets group. However nonetheless, it’s fairly telling that he was actually gushing about his new scenario. Then once more, who can blame him?