@MichiganPacker2 posted:I also like the fact that unlike Harden, Irving, and Griffin, Durant never half-assed his way off of another team. He's left teams as a free agent, but he's always left it all on the court for whoever he's played for. He blew his Achilles coming back early for a finals game when no one could have fairly criticized him for not risking injury and making sure he got his next contract (since he was a free agent after that series).
The fact that Harden hurt his hamstring was probably bad luck, but the fact that less than 7 months ago he was hitting strip clubs, breaking COVID protocols, and actively undermining his coach to get traded from a team that had built its whole offense around him might have contributed to a lack of conditioning that caused him problems all year.
I agree on Harden. I think he is a dirty player in that he draws fouls on the defenders by running into them and then shoving them away from him. He rarely, if ever got called for an offensive foul, in the games he played, in this series.