James Harden's run with the Houston Rockets officially came to an end Thursday when the Rockets and Nets announced the finalization of the four-team blockbuster trade that granted Harden his wish and sent him to Brooklyn.
It was all good just 18 months ago.
July 2019. That's the mile-marker that signifies when Harden started slowly chipping away at a franchise that seemed to be on the cusp of a championship just a year earlier were it not for those pesky 27 consecutive missed 3-pointers in Game 7 against the 2018 Golden State Warriors.
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Two months after a second straight season ended with another playoff loss to the Warriors – this time when they were missing Kevin Durant – the Rockets made a disastrous trade to keep Harden happy.