Harden is now a single man once again

[JetLife]

It's official James Harden and Khloe Kardashian have broke up and now Harden can focus on one thing and that's hoops.

Guys in the hip hop community have seen Future turn into one of the top rappers in the rap game after his break up with Ciara. Now that the balls in Hardens court he can do the same. He's already a top player but he will break records like Future did this year.


Sent from the Villain

[MaxRider]

it's that good or bad thing?
he's single again
he can visit strip club again

[zapatasblood]

it's that good or bad thing?
he's single again
he can visit strip club again

He get this team a second seed last year working his way through strip clubs.

Kardashian are poisonness you know I know we all know it

[Lorenzomax7]

TBF I think this Kardashian is much better..

[kam_soluusar]

Money grubbing hoes, the lot of them. good riddance to bad rubbish, she can continue to **** Odom's life up now. At least with these strippers, he can hit it and quit. Harden should come visit Australia. Prostitution is legal here, He can buy all the pussy his 200 milliion dollar arse wants!

[SD2042]

It was only a matter of time. And for Harden, it came at the right time. Now that the NBA is about to start on Tuesday, he should be mentally free enough to focus on the task of having a great season for the Rockets. Maybe he'll get the MVP he's been seeking.

As for the Khloe/Lamar situation, she never got over him given the whole divorce deal was more of a breakup than your tradition divorce. Now that it seems they are back together, she will have a big challenge on her hands that will test her will and mental than ever before. As for Lamar, this guy is a huge example of a "walking tragedy" too many tragedies in his life has led him to this point. Considering how fragile he has been all these years, he too will need all the help he can get from God and his family and a rock solid foundation he needs to build on and run from there. It will be a long road and I wish them luck. They will need it.

[Nebula1]

Great Harden article up on ESPN

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13988182/nba-postseason-loss-fueling-james-harden-fire

If Rockets fans took postseason loss hard, they should talk to James Harden

Calvin Watkins, ESPN Staff Writer


How James Harden reacted to the way his 2014-15 season ended said everything.

Last May, the final buzzer sounded on the Houston Rockets' season with a 104-90 Game 5 loss to the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference finals. Harden shook some hands, hugged a few players and walked off the court.

But in the locker room, his tears flowed generously.

Since that night, while Houston's offseason mainly focused on branding and marketing, Harden has used that playoff loss and the anger from it to fuel his engine this season. That engine fires up Wednesday night against the Denver Nuggets in the Rockets' season opener.

And that desire for an NBA title burns hot.

"You can use anger," Rockets point guard Patrick Beverley said. "It's fuel for motivation. He's already achieved a lot as a player. Most players wouldn't be [staying long] after practice, and what he wants is a championship. He understands for his personal success and to be considered great in this league, you have to win a championship. It's all about championships."

Winning equals respect

Indeed, so many of Harden's peers also are striving for that greatness, that elite level of respect only an NBA championship brings. The NBA landscape is littered with great players whom have yet to hoist the Larry O'Brien trophy: Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, John Wall, Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony. They are in the same universe with Harden: No rings and hungry.

"That's why we play the game -- to win championships," Harden said. "If you don't win a championship, you came up short, you failed. That's why this league is so great. You have the top, really good players who sacrifice, doing whatever it takes for their team to win."

The Western Conference, however, is a perilous place to chase that dream. Last season, seven teams won at least 50 games. In the East? Three. The Rockets won the Southwest Division, but every team in that division made the playoffs.

Likewise, the caliber of player in the West is equally elevated. Eleven Western Conference players earned MVP votes. In the East, only LeBron James earned any votes.
"It's sickening, but it's what it is and it's the way the league is built now, everybody is very competitive," veteran guard Jason Terry said of the West.

And this offseason it only got worse in the Southwest Division with San Antonio upgrading its roster with free-agent LaMarcus Aldridge. In the Pacific Division, the Los Angeles Clippers added former Eastern Conference veterans Paul Pierce and Lance Stephenson after re-signing DeAndre Jordan. Meanwhile, New Orleans still has Anthony Davis, and Golden State is the reigning champ.

"Who doesn't notice it," Harden said. "There's more than five, even the Pelicans, they have a really good team, they made the playoffs last year, they got a new coach who came from the Warriors. You have the teams in Texas, you got the Thunder who wasn't healthy last year, that's really good. You got Memphis that's always good. San Antonio. Warriors."

The Rockets were not without their own major addition. It kept its core group together and acquired from Denver Ty Lawson, an excellent point guard whose main duties will be to push the pace and take ballhandling pressures off Harden.

"All these teams are good," Harden said. "The Utah Jazz are really good defensively, and making a lot of noise, you can go on and on. That's why the NBA is the NBA."

Harden's tough lesson

Terry has seen this before.

Dirk Nowitzki and his Dallas Mavericks lost to the Miami Heat in the 2006 NBA Finals. Just 27, Nowitzki wouldn't get back to Finals for five seasons, finally winning it all at age 32. A member of that 2010-11 Dallas Mavericks squad, Terry sees quite a few similarities to Nowitzki in his current teammate, Harden.

"A lot [of similarities]," said Terry, a 16-year veteran. "We challenged [Dirk] to be more of a vocal leader. But the second part was [convincing him] to not only be a stat guy but be a more impactful stat guy. Not just doing it with points every night, but doing it consistently all around in all phases of the game and making your teammates better."

Harden is in his prime and Terry says he thinks the 26-year-old is learning the same lessons, burning for a title the way Nowitzki did.

"I've seen that progression in James and it's still new to him," Terry said. "This is only his third year with basically having his own team. I like where he is in his progression and he understands where he needs to go to reach that upper level."

For Harden, even though he's still just 26, he understands the championship window is not open forever. He knows it'll take him helping elevate his teammates to achieve that goal.

"It doesn't always end up how you want it," Harden said. "You might have a great team one year and the next year you might not have a not-so-great team. It's all about bringing a team together and sacrificing and striving to do one thing and that's win a championship."

[makaveli_99]

looks terrible so far this year... lets hope that changes