Houston Rockets: Can James Harden’s guilt be proven in court?
The Houston Rockets season has been over for nearly a week and there’s already negative news coming out in regard to its top player.
The Houston Rockets season has been over for nearly a week and there’s already negative news coming out in regard to its top player.
And it’s notwithstanding with the fact that the Houston Rockets had an embarrassing exit to the playoffs in Game 6 of the Western Conference Semifinals.
So with that on top of that, the feud between James Harden and Moses Malone Jr. continues to burn like a wildfire.
According to an ESPN report, Malone Jr. is still not done, formally filing a civil lawsuit against Harden in regard to an incident that dates back to last summer.
Although the suit was filed back in September, an amendment was recently added, getting the wheels turning on a court date even quicker.
What happened?
It all started back June 23rd when Malone Jr. posted on Facebook in regard to the eyebrow-raising amount of money to charge for his off season basketball camp.
Harden was charging $249 per participant and this definitely rubbed Malone Jr. the wrong way causing him to post his frustrations on the popular social media site.
This resulted in an June 25th incident at V Live, an adult nightclub where Malone Jr. was not allowed entry where he says he was beaten and robbed of jewelry by four armed men that night.
Malone Jr. alleged that Harden hired those men to cause harm to him and the new amendment states that there was a $20,000 hit on him as a result.
We all can believe what we want but Malone Jr. is going to have a hard time proving Harden’s guilt, unless he has documented conversations — text messages and cell phone records — indicating that this event was plotted.
Harden is represented by Rusty Hardin, one of Houston’s finest lawyers defending athletes so I know they’re going to do the utmost in their defense.
I also have a hard time believing that Harden would go through the trouble of hiring “goons” to take out Malone Jr.
I’m sure he has bigger fish to fry but we certainly have to see how all of this plays out.
Malone Jr. is asking for more than $1 million in the lawsuit for “past and future severe physical pain and mental anguish, medical expenses, physical impairment and loss of personal property.”
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Whether he gets that amount is a different story.
Malone Jr. and I are about the same age and I used to watch him in my teens when he was the star player at Friendswood High when my high school basketball team used to face them regularly in their annual tourney.
It’s troubling to hear that this is the epilogue to such a svelte player’s basketball career.
We’ll see how this plays out but I’m sure the Houston Rockets’ Harden will be vindicated, he hasn’t been charged with any wrongdoing in this case so far.
Go Rockets.