If this is true, it would be on par about everything that is amazing about James Harden’s career.
You never know if people are just saying things for clout on social media these days, but since Harden is such a strip club legend, you want this story to be true. A stripper named Hillary Hunter said she was giving Harden a lap dance when he told her the trade to the Sixers was done.
The interesting thing about it was he told her this a day before the trade became official, and around the same time, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst reported the deal was likely going to be done.
Harden was supposed to be out with a bad hamstring injury but found some time ALLEGEDLY to hit up the strip club. According to ESPN, it is one of the reasons the Nets wanted him out of Brooklyn.
He had thrived as a lead scorer in Houston, but part of the reason he chose Brooklyn had been an understanding that his advancing age no longer left him capable of carrying outsized scoring expectations for protracted periods.
But co-stars can only help so much. They have to be available, first of all, but Harden also had to change his lifestyle and help himself. It wasn’t lost on teammates that Harden continued his late-night social activities, especially on the Nets’ last Western Conference trip this month. His play, often dispassionate and sloppy, culminated with a four-point performance in a loss to the lowly Sacramento Kings. Maybe Harden could maintain this lifestyle in his 20s, but it wasn’t working now. For a player purporting to have a hand and hamstring injury, this wasn’t inspiring confidence within a team in freefall.
A Philadelphia strip club already has Harden’s VIP ready.
In a couple of years, we will see who is the winner of this trade because both teams made the trade with championships in mind.
Flip the pages for the Stripper tweets, and the offer Harden got from Philly strip club.
