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How do you build a team around James Harden?

Related Topics: James Harden, Kevin Durant

Most of you all now would agree that, aside from the hope of a first-round upset to help serve in making Houston seem a somewhat palatable destination for Kevin Durant, this season, for all intents and purposes, is over. The micro-level discussions from last year regarding strategy and opponents have given way to the macro debates of seasons past over team building. Discussions which we thought we had left safely in the rearview mirror.

With the Warriors’ historic levels of success, and the Spurs nipping at their heels as the presumed runner-up, the ingrained assumption has become that only an imitation of their styles could hope to pose a challenge.