Bill Simmons
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Appearances Over Time
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I think we've had now 25 or 30 years of Charles in our lives and the cultural force.
He's an icon.
He's an NBA icon.
I have Barkley much higher than these guys.
You do?
Right.
It's going to be tough.
I think as we try and process the NBA from this era and going forward, what do we do with a player like James Harden?
And how do you contextualize his inability?
He's only been to one finals.
He was coming off the bench for Oklahoma City.
The question with Harden, and obviously you and I share the same kind of perspective on him, we've watched it.
He was there present for us in all of our NBA hoops fandom.
He's been in our lives for so long.
Will history be more gracious towards him?
Right, because the era in which Harden, Harden in the West against the teams that he went up against, not being able to topple Golden State, catching the end of the Spurs run, can we legitimately pin responsibility
on him for his inability to take a team?
I mean, it's a no-brainer.
It's easy.
Flags fly forever.