Houston Rockets All-Stars James Harden and Dwight Howard are coming under fire again as reports surface that the duo prefer each other’s company and rarely interact with any of their other teammates.
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CBS Sports' Matt Hammond spoke to Rockets power forward Donatas Motiejunas and he said that the duo rarely interacts with teammates and they even eat separately from the rest of the team.
D-Mo on relationships with Howard and Harden: "Hi & bye. They even eat separately from the team. Usually in some fast food place." #Rockets
— Simonas Baranauskas (@LithuaniaBasket) August 8, 2014
Hammond does stress that this is simply one person’s point of view and it doesn’t reflect how the rest of the team feels, but it has to be discouraging regardless. Harden and Howard have come under fire before for their lack of leadership skills, especially when it came to the Chandler Parsons-Chris Bosh situation.
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Grantland's Zach Lowe believes that it was Harden and Howard’s attitude and antics that drove Bosh back to Miami instead of taking the Rockets offer.
“He was intrigued by Houston, but he's 30, he's super-smart, and he just spent four years playing with two like-minded stars on an older roster for an organization that takes basketball craft seriously. The Rockets do, too, but there is an undercurrent around the league that Harden and Howard don't represent the most appealing duo of teammates for any star who has lived within ultraserious professionalism.
Howard was great last year, but the jokiness and free-agent dithering hurt his image. The viral videos of Harden's defense damaged his reputation. It wouldn't shock me if Bosh at least considered some of that in his decision.”
Harden recently said that "Dwight and I are the cornerstones of the Rockets,” after Parsons departed the Rockets for the Mavericks and he also referred to the rest of Houston’s roster as role players.
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