Saturday marked one year and one day since the Nets traded James Harden to the 76ers, ending Brooklyn’s “Big Three” as fans knew it after less than a year. The Nets hosted Harden and Philadelphia, fresh off of trading away the other two superstar members of that triumvirate: Kevin Durant to the Suns and Kyrie Irving to the Mavericks.
After facing the new-look Nets—and helping his team to a dramatic three-point win—Harden once again took aim at his former team, and the way he was labeled for pushing to be traded by a team for a second straight year, after the Rockets dealt him to Brooklyn in 2021.
Harden told reporters that there were things that could have been done to keep him in Brooklyn, but he cited “dysfunction” as a reason he requested a trade.
