It’s reflexive. The morning after James Harden has his most disastrous playoff game ever — looking 10 years older than his age, as Skip Bayless tweeted Thursday night — Nets fans are taking great joy in pointing at their former point guard saying, “See, he’s done. We won the trade.”
While on one hand, Harden, 32, looked awful, the February 10 trade was never going to be won or lost in May. There are too many variables. Harden and Ben Simmons health is the biggest one, but there are others: How’s Seth Curry’s ankle? Is Andre Drummond a rental?