What years was Harden expected to win besides the Chris Paul seasons? Even then, Golden State was mid-dynasty so the "expectation" was tempered...
Don't do this fam...
Wade got Shaq in Year fukking 2. The sane Shaq who many feel was rightful MVP in Wade's Y2. Even a diminishing Shaq brought an invaluable amount of experience, poise, and leadership for Wade to learn from and lean and grow on. When did Harden have that?
Wade choked like the rest of his Heat team in the '11 Finals, he gets missed because a player better than him was choking harder, but don't make me post Wade's 4th quarters in the last 3 games. Wade was never the guy to the level nikkas portray him as because if he was he doesn't fold like a cheap suit and he fukking stops the bleeding when Dallas went on that 21-4 or whatever run, and stops the bleeding in other instances Miami DESPERATELY needed somebody to step the fukk up...
After that he routinely became an availability question in the playoffs and he still got two titles out of it. If you want to criticize Harden for these last two years when he's clearly post-prime, Wade played for 5 more years once Bron left and never did anything of note again...
The Wade adoration is over the top. He was not a better basketball player than Harden. He did have that '06 run and Finals that I've said many times before, is the historical bar between he and Harden. Harden hasn't had one of those, it is what it is and it'll eternally keep him behind Wade. But Wade also benefitted from organizational structure Harden didn't have as well as two of the 10 greatest players ever buoying him for the championship success he saw, benefits Harden never had. Take away top shelf teammates and Harden's career was objectively better and as basketball players Harden was more durable prime-to-prime, had the higher peak of the two, and was the more dynamic hooper period...
Wade was a great player in his own right but yall be giving this nikka a level of greatness he wasn't at. He was great. He wasn't that great...