Grant's Rant: 11-12-20 James Harden and the Houston Rockets, time for a change?

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Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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No, that's not sacrilegious. It's the truth. James Harden and playoff championships are synonymous, right? Wrong! How many Championships has Hardin won with the Houston Rockets? Count 'em. It's easy. No fingers. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. So why are he and Russell Westbrook balking about the direction of the team? Time for a change? Here what I have to say in today's rant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's
0:04.1	rant. rant. Newark Plumbing.com, that's NAWUWRX Plumbing.
0:14.3	All right, yesterday ESPN comes out with a story about the Houston Rockets.
0:18.4	James Harlan and Russell Westbrook, they say, have expressed concern about the direction of the franchise
0:24.4	through direct conversations or discussions with their representatives
0:28.4	and the Rockets front office. All right, here's what I'm going to say on this topic, okay?
0:33.8	The Houston Rockets are an exciting team to watch, okay?
0:37.0	They really are.
0:37.7	They're a fun team to watch.
0:39.1	But you're never winning a world championship playing the way the Rockets do.
0:42.2	Now I know that Mike Dantone is not there
0:44.2	anymore, Darryl Moray is not there anymore, but if you're going to play that style of
0:48.5	basketball it really doesn't matter who's on your team. You're going to win a lot of
0:51.9	games in a regular season. You may
0:53.7	win a playoff series or two, but that's it. Now as far as James Harden goes, okay? I don't
0:59.6	recall in the biggest of games in the playoffs walking away from my TV set and saying boy
1:06.0	James Harden was just unbelievable I'm talking about do or die games all right so I don't want to hear about James
1:10.8	harden is he a hell of a talent? Yes he is. Are you going to win a
1:14.2	championship with James Harden? I don't think so. I mean I've been watching every year he's
1:18.0	31 years of age right now and you know they didn't even make it to the Western Conference
1:22.2	finals last year.
1:23.3	I mean stop already with this.
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