Nash spoke out: Harden shouldn t have made a comeback forcibly in 21 years, he was almost playing with one leg at that time

Harden's injured leg in the 2021 playoffs completely rewritten the fate of the Nets' Big Three.

Four years later, Nash personally admitted that the decision-making mistakes were at the cost of 163 million contracts and the dream of champions was shattered, and the athletes' health management alarm was deafening.

Nash's words on the podcast, "I should grow faster" sounded sad.

At that time, the medical standard for secondary strain of hamstrings was 4-6 weeks off, and Harden only had to rest for 10 days before taking the initiative.

A team doctor privately revealed that during pre-match training, he was even limping in running back and running, and his breakthrough was all due to his left leg exerting force. What is even more heartbreaking is that sports medicine reports show that the recurrence rate of hamstring strain is as high as 43%, and the Nets medical team marked the "high risk" warning as early as January.

Look at the data of those three life-and-death battles: G5 makes one of ten shots, G7 squats at the bottom corner as a fixed-point shooter.

The three-time scoring champions dare not break through because the explosive power of the hamstring determines the quality of the step back.

The Bucks assistant coach later admitted that the defensive strategy was to make a move and attack: "He started the move and was obviously half a beat slower."

No wonder some fans found a comparison video. Harden's breakthrough speed in the 2023 playoffs was 0.3 seconds slower than that of 36-year-old Tucker.

Durant's sentence after being swept this year, "Health is the ticket to compete for the championship", now it sounds like every word is crying.

At that time, Irving was being cushioned by accident, but letting the half-resolved core hit for 46 minutes was definitely a management accident.

Sports rehabilitation experts pointed out that continuous high-intensity games will trigger compensatory reactions. Durant G7's overtime leg is not a three-pointer, which is the chain loss caused by Harden's absence.

The ironiest thing is the business cost.

When he refused the Nets' maximum salary of 163 million yuan in three years, Harden wanted to bet on health and replace it with a larger contract.

As a result, the explosive power was permanently damaged after being injured. In 2024, the annual salary for transferring to the Clippers was only 32 million yuan. The treatment records exposed by the Philadelphia team doctor last year were shocking: platelet-rich injections twice a week, and a full-sensitivity patch should be applied before training.

Nash said that lack of experience in new coaches is considered a step forward.

But when Harden's injury repeated in April that year, the data team had long warned that the risk factor was over.

Dinwiddie and Griffin dare not use new forces, as the killing of the wounded is essentially gambling thinking.

Antesco's footsteps are the fuse, but letting the injured leg Harden plays is to extinguish the last fire with his own hands.

Striving for the championship requires courage and more rationality.

If Harden had been completely recovered from his injuries back then, the Big Three could maintain their competitiveness for at least two years.

Now Durant is back to the Rockets as a mentor, Harden transforms into point guard, Irving is the second in command of the Mavericks, and the final floor cannot be touched.

Some fans said it well: Overdrawing the future replacement of painkillers will not cure the root cause of professional sports.