Miami Heat Big 3: Kendrick Perkins says we can thank James Harden & Strip Clubs

The Miami Heat are struggling right now, apparently. That’s why it would be good, just for a moment, to go back in time to a more peaceful time in Miami Heat history.

This was a time where the standard was titles and nothing less. This was a time where we could count on making the NBA Finals every year, it was just a matter of if they could get it done once they got there.

Well, on one of the years where they did “get it done”, it was against the Oklahoma City Thunder. This was a Thunder team that featured Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Serge Ibaka, and Kendrick Perkins.

With that talent on the roster and their ability to flat out fill it up, many thought that they should have beaten the Miami Heat that year. They didn’t though.

Now, almost a decade or so later, we finally have a bit of clarity. If you think back to the series, what we now know fits right along with what we saw.

We won’t continue to string it out though. Here is the revelation.

The “Big 3 Era” Miami Heat can apparently thank James Harden and his love of gentleman’s bars.

It comes from Kendrick Perkins, a member of that team. He revealed it on a recent appearance on Stephen Jackson’s and Matt Barnes’s All The Smoke podcast. 

Well, that was enlightening. As if his recent escapades weren’t enough, we now find out that he’s been putting himself in… how do we say… situations that aren’t necessarily conducive to his ultimate goal for a long time now.

We sure thank him, as Miami Heat fans, but the Heat would have won anyways, if you ask me. They were the better team.

Perhaps reasons such as these are why they were the better team. It’s ok to have fun, really it is.

However, situations like these and everything that led up to him being traded from Houston to Brooklyn are exactly the types of things that you have heard about Harden over the years. As a fan of a team that was supposedly in the mix to land him, these are the things that scared the heck out of me.

Not only does he hold your team hostage as it’s best player or a top two guy, in his case now, but you then have to account for what it took to get him there. If you give up the entire team, almost, to land Harden and then he proceeds to combust your team from the inside out, that’s a double whammy.

Harden is an interesting guy, but I believe what Perk said, for the record. Hopefully, if the Nets make it deep into the playoffs, things are a bit more open so he can proceed to do it all over again.

That would be the best thing for our Heat, right? I thought so.