{"id":17929,"date":"2012-11-08T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2012-11-08T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T21:24:36","slug":"james-harden-was-hurt-by-thunder-rushing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17929","title":{"rendered":"James Harden Was \u2018Hurt\u2019 By Thunder Rushing Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day you\u2019re dreaming of championship rings with your buddies; the next you\u2019re stepping off of a charter plane as the face of a rebuild. Rockets guard <strong>James Harden<\/strong> can be forgiven if his head is still spinning after the Thunder moved him in a blockbuster trade just days before the start of the 2012-13 season.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 10 days, with his whole life turned upside down, he\u2019s signed an $80 million contract extension and keyed a nice start to the Rockets\u2019 season. Still, it sounds as if he\u2019s not totally content with how the process played out. <strong>Harden<\/strong> wishes the Thunder hadn\u2019t rushed him to make a decision during the final stages of contract extension negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t officials give him longer than an hour to consider a final four-year, $54 million offer before trading him? \u201cAfter everything we established \u2014 everything we had done \u2014 you give me an hour?\u201d \u201cThis was one of the biggest decisions of my life. I wanted to go home and pray about it. It hurt me. It hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day you\u2019re dreaming of championship rings with your buddies; the next you\u2019re stepping off of a charter plane as the face of a rebuild. Rockets guard James Harden can be forgiven if his head is still spinning after the Thunder moved him in a blockbuster trade just days before the start of the 2012-13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}