{"id":478169,"date":"2026-01-10T14:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478169"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:10:57","slug":"james-harden-looks-back-on-brooklyn-we-had-an-opportunity-to-do-something-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/james-harden-looks-back-on-brooklyn-we-had-an-opportunity-to-do-something-special\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden Looks Back on Brooklyn: \u201cWe Had an Opportunity to Do Something Special\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"604\">Speaking with <strong data-start=\"376\" data-end=\"417\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Michael Scotto<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"460\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">James Harden<\/span><\/span><\/strong> reflected on his time with the <strong data-start=\"492\" data-end=\"533\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Brooklyn Nets<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, a period filled with expectations, setbacks and unanswered questions.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"1047\">\n<p data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"1047\">\u201cSome great memories. We had an opportunity to do something special. Me personally, I was injured. That was like the first time in my entire career that I wasn\u2019t able to stay on the court and be effective like I can be and like I am. In that part, it was a little frustrating, but some great experiences for those two years. Obviously, it was Covid, so the world was in a crisis, but this organization has helped me and I appreciate them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1250\">Harden also addressed the idea that the Nets\u2019 trio with <strong data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1146\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kevin Durant<\/span><\/span><\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1192\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kyrie Irving<\/span><\/span><\/strong> represents one of the greatest \u201cwhat ifs\u201d in NBA history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">James Harden on his Brooklyn Nets tenure: \u201cSome great memories. We had an opportunity to do something special. Me personally, I was injured. That was like the first time in my entire career that I wasn\u2019t able to stay on the court and be effective like I can be and like I am. In\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bm7j8Zxg5b\">pic.twitter.com\/bm7j8Zxg5b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2009840349829529758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1417\">\n<p data-start=\"1254\" data-end=\"1417\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got that. My whole career \u2014 you\u2019ve got two what if situations. OKC, Chris Paul and his hamstring. I don\u2019t even think about that. I\u2019m living in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Nets star reflects on injuries, Covid and the big \u201cwhat if\u201d alongside Durant and Irving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":478171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-478169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/James_Harden_51832174512.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478169"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=478169"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=478169"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=478169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}