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lupica mitch album and bob ryan i'm bob ryan of the boston globe and es p n. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

I am Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News,

and welcome to the Thursday morning edition of the Sports Reporters podcast.

And we start with not because it was a great game last night,

but James Harden returned to Houston.

And the darling of the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, New York,

and a guy who has played superb basketball since forcing his way,

away from the Rockets, went back last night.

It was more negative than positive, but it was noteworthy because this was

his first time back and even though the guys even though he's being carried around the room on

his shoulders now in the borough of a brooklyn you know we've talked about this before it doesn't

change how he got to the big city.

Oh, no, it was very unseemly. But the thing about this guy is that he can shrug it off.

He'll, he'll, he, I guarantee, I would be willing to bet guys that he hasn't lost a nanosecond of sleep over worrying about what anybody thought about how he

forced his exit from Houston. He doesn't give a damn. That's not when you hear about how he

acted when he was in Houston, where he didn't give a damn about anybody else in the team anyhow.

You know, from the stories about him, we're staying in this city because I got friends here,

so we're staying an extra day. I don't care about the rest of the team to all the other

treatment that they were dumb enough to give him. I, you know, I find it, I understand it,

but I find it, I guess, a little disingenuous or unseemly when these teams put together

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