Max Kellerman believes that the Rockets should trade Harden when he still has trading value:
"Unfortunately, this does not apply to james harden and Westbrook in Houston. They are not from this team. They didn't win the championship for this team. "
"If you wait until this guy is no longer valuable, just like the Knicks did to Ewing, and then trade him, you will encounter the problem of salary space ... The Knicks are' buried' by the salary problem because they only trade him when Ewing is worthless. If you are going to rebuild, you should trade him while he is still valuable. For example, when O 'Neal was still valuable, the Lakers traded him, but they didn't even get a reciprocal return ... So, the problem is that it is difficult to find a player who can replace Harden. Usually, in NBA history, the player who gets the best player will win the deal. Find a better player than Harden! You can't use him to trade some' fragments'. " Max Kellerman said.
To this, Stephen -A- Smith doesn't quite agree:
"You can't trade Harden! You can't trade Harden ... In today's NBA, when you have an offensive machine like Harden on the offensive end-Harden just has a little problem on the offensive end, he seems to need more dribbling to do what he wants, but other than that, he has no shortcomings (interrupted) ... They must find a suitable coach, and there must be a coach who can make Shao Wei's character more gentle; Otherwise, you have to trade him and find other players to partner Harden. " Stephen smith said.
It is worth mentioning that Harden played for the Rockets for 8 years and scored two Western Conference Finals, helping the team break the "Western Conference Finals" that lasted for 18 years!