The Houston Rockets are an unpopular team. Ask any NBA fan and they’ll have their own reasons, which is usually some combination of disdain for the team’s style of play and/or contempt for James Harden‘s individual abilities.
You don’t have to look very hard (especially in the recesses of social media) to find comments about Harden’s poor shooting nights, the Rockets’ choice to move away from a traditional big, or the playoff history of Harden and his backcourt mate, Russell Westbrook.
Yet since the deadline deal to move Clint Capela and bring in sharpshooting defensive ace Robert Covington, the Rockets were surging, going 9-1 over the month of February when Westbrook played.