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臭臉談鬍子交易：是我自私、LBJ等人鼓吹、GM拒給頂薪

2012 James Harden trade

“I thought who’s the most selfish guy in the world. I really did. Like I wrote
 James a big ass text message, like a long ass message, and I just went off I wa
s like, ‘bro you selfish as hell like man, we got a chance to do some special l
ike lose my number m—–f—–.’ I’m cussing him out and everything. He respond
ed and said, ‘it’s all good man. I got a lot to worry about right now. I got t
o carry this team.’ That was his response, but I was hurt because I didn’t wan
t it to like — at that point already knew I’m not making any All-Star games —
 I’m a role player and I already had accepted my role. And so when James left,
I didn’t understand it at the moment because I was thinking about myself and tr
ying to win more championships. This young man was nothing but 23 years old. Try
ing to go accomplish making the All-Star game, trying to go get $100 million wit
h his contract, trying to go make $100 to $250+ (million) with his shoe money. A
nd here I was being selfish, not thinking that he had individual goals and s–t
that he wanted to accomplish and I should have been supporting that.”





Sam Presti forcing Harden's hand

“What happened was Sam Presti actually gave him until 12 o’clock. I remember
— it was like a Wednesday. He was like, ‘you got until 12 o’clock to sign thi
s.’ I believe it was like the $64 million extension… James was like, ‘I want
the max.'”



LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony influencing James Harden

“But what ended up happening was when James, KD and Russ all went to the Olympi
cs, and they won a gold medal, everybody like LeBron, DWade, Carmelo was gassing
 up James saying, ‘you need your own team.’ And they weren’t gassing him — t
hey were right. He actually did need his own team. But at the same time, they wa
s trying to break the Oklahoma City Thunder up so they could win more titles.”



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