James Harden opens up about Nets tenure, questions Kevin Durant's own trade request: 'Am I still the quitter?'
James Harden's first full season with the Philadelphia 76ers got off to a frustrating start, as he sprained a tendon in his foot less than a month in and was sidelined for 14 games. He is back on the court now, though, and the Sixers have gone 3-1 since he returned from injury. Harden is also back, for the first time in nearly three years, in the media with a full-length feature story -- this time from Yaron Weitzman of Fox Sports. The full piece is well worth a read, but some of the bits about the end of Harden's tenure with the Brooklyn Nets are particularly notable, and worth going through bit by bit. Contentious relationship with Kevin Durant First, there was the whole Kyrie Irving vaccination mess. Also, Harden and Durant, according to multiple Nets sources, butted heads during the season – Durant didn't think Harden was in peak physical shape, and told him as much. Previous reporting has indica...