Eric Walden: The James Harden situation has quickly devolved from mere selfishness to pure recklessness
The Rockets guard has gone beyond the conventional means of making himself a nuisance in order to force a trade. He’s now weaponizing his indifference toward the pandemic.
Houston Rockets guard James Harden, top center, joins the huddle during the fourth quarter of a preseason NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, in Houston. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Eric is a West Valley City native and a graduate of Granger High School and the University of Utah who joined The Tribune in 2003. He hoards rescue cats and guinea pigs, reads historical fiction, watches British baking shows, and obsesses over 1980s hair-metal bands in his spare time.