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James Harden

No doubt this is fantasy-esque, but crazier things happened before. Harden is entering a win or bust window with the Houston Rockets. The race to the title has never been this wide-open in the last five years, and this could be the year when the Rockets finally come out of the West. On the flipside, Harden’s reunion with Russell Westbrook may lead to more frustrations. And everybody knows what stars do when they get tired of losing: they ask for a trade.