James Harden arrived in Brooklyn and predicted his partnership with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving would be ' scary hours.' It was over in a New York minute. Not just that trio, but an entire era in Brooklyn.
There were illness and injuries, so sometimes they just couldn’t play.The bottom line is Durant, Irving and Harden played just 16 games together, winning one playoff series.
It looked awesome at its peak. The Nets rolled past Boston in five games in the first round of the 2021 playoffs and overpowered Milwaukee in the first two games of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Eventually, they brought him back in January to play on the road, but by then Harden had become disillusioned. He asked out and the Nets sent him to the 76ers in a deal that brought back Ben Simmons on Feb. 10, 2022.
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