Miami Heat: Creating a trade proposal for James Harden

Houston’s Perspective

The James Harden-Russell Westbrook experiment didn’t quite work out as the front office expected. Instead of competing for a championship, both superstars are looking for trades away from Houston effective immediately. All that in a span of one year.

Even though the talent is certainly there, the game is still being played with one basketball. When you add a ball-dominant player such as Russ next to another ball-dominant player like Harden, who’s to decide how the offense is played?

If that wasn’t enough, trading away your starting center and replacing him with a 6’5”, 35-year-old P.J. Tucker was the final nail in the coffin of their 2019-20 campaign. A style of basketball that no one has ever attempted before would either work amazingly or fail miserably.

The result was the latter, leaving the organization with a huge problem on their hands. Do they blow up the entire team and try to rebuild or attempt to salvage anything possible and run it back next season?

If the Rockets choose to run with the first option and pursue a James Harden trade, is there really a suitor better than the Miami Heat? With multiple young pieces to build around, as well as having almost every single one of their draft picks, a Heat package could easily entice the Rockets.