Does Hardens success on the sixers prove Ben Taylor wrong that harden is not a portable player?

[JimmyFromNz]

Have a lot of bad things to say about Harden, particularly around his impact on a team environment. Will stand by those...

Though his time with the Nets on the court was the point where I stopped worrying about his 'portability' at least I moved him out of the Allen Iverson category in my mind. I dont really feel anything that happens with the Clippers changes my view.

We can make fun of those Nets circumstances as much as we like, they were satisfyingly ridiculous. Yet in his shorty time he played a highly effective point distributor role amongst a variety of sporadic lineups dictated by other factors (Kyrie's gullability, Durant's injury). There were shades of his earlier OKC role that he no doubt leant back on with Durant.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-james-harden-changed-his-game-in-brooklyn/

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2021/2/19/22291117/james-harden-brooklyn-nets-kevin-durant-kyrie-irving

Two articles, one data based one less so, a small sample size used to emphasise my point. There would be similar examples from Philly no doubt - when healthy.

Ben is fantastic, his ability to neatly conceptualize ideas that tell the story of the data and eye test is unmatched, but often that comes with over conceptualizing to a fault when assessing players (something we are guilty of on here as well). The reality is that James has shown the ability to mould his game in multiple settings from the beginning of his career, the extraneous issues are really what let him down in each of those.