Building a team, Kawhi Leonard or James Harden?

[russwest0]

Who would you start your franchise off with?

[L8kersfan222]

Budadii

[moe94]

The one who made first team all-NBA. Seriously, though, is Harden the worst guard to ever make first team? Spree did it, but is he that much better or worse than Spree?

[Angel Face]

Kawhi Leonard. Harden is a ball hog. He kills ball rotation, waste shot clock only to brick.

[dirkdiggler41]

James Harden, give him Pop and see what happens!

[russwest0]

I would almost take James Harden just to trade him to some sucker like Morey for a bunch of assets.

But even then you're sill passing up on a young STUD in Kawhi Leonard.

[russwest0]

James Harden, give him Pop and see what happens!

He was in a development system just like the one the Spurs have in OKC and was traded because he didn't value winning over individual success.

Despite there being rumors about Harden's selfish behavior, Presti has also made multiple hints at it as well. I think during the press conference after the Harden trade he started singling out how hard Durant, Ibaka, and Westbrook all work every single day, almost to say that he had no worries of paying those guys high contracts compared to someone like Harden who didn't put as much work in.

[Dragic4Life]

Kawhi all day.

[Milbuck]

James Harden.

[COLOR="White"]Seriously though, Kawhi and it's not close. [/COLOR]

[russwest0]

We all know that Harden has the talent and great understanding of the officiating in this sport to score 25+ each night.

OKC traded Harden because they didn't feel that he put enough work in to be a max contract level impact player in the playoffs.

At the time everyone said they were just overreacting to his poor Finals series. But since then Houston has had two first round exits and Harden has played poor in both. I'd say that OKC was right with their assessment of Harden.

[Cocaine80s]

Kawhi would be MKG if he didn't have Pop.

Harden on the Spurs would be Manu on steroids

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Both are ideally 3rd options but Kawhi has a higher ceiling and plays on both ends
give me kawhi

[russwest0]

I just remembered games 3 and 4 of the 2012 Finals where OKC only lost to Miami by 6 points and in both games James Harden shot 2-10 from the field.

Yet OKC fans have to continually watch clowns like Bill Simmons try to shit on OKC for trading Harden away.

It's no coincidence that in the 2012 Finals, the one game that Harden took less than 10 shots (only 6, actually), OKC won. The same shit we see in Houston in the playoffs with him struggling to shoot 40% from the field, chucking up too many 3s, playing for the whistle too much, and playing shit D, we all got to see that in OKC as well.

[Im so nba'd out]

Tough even though kawaii is the better all around player i would have to go with harden.Even though he doesn't play defense he is still the best shooting guard in the league right now

[ABfor3]

Give me the guy who's been averaging 25/5/5 as the main option on his team with a coach who doesn't know what the f*ck he's doing.

Whether you wanna dispute it or not, Kawhi has definitley benefited from playing under Pop arguably the best coach in NBA history.