It has been rumored that one of the main reasons why James Harden requested to be traded to the 76ers was that Kyrie Irving could not play in the Nets’ home games because he refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

But according to an NBA insider Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson that was not the case. Instead, it was a bad relationship between Harden and Brooklyn’s head coach Steve Nash.

“Steve Nash and James Harden weren’t getting along,” Robinson said on Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. “The two of them are cold, I can tell you that on record. The issue was Steve Nash and James Harden.

“And in turn the fact that Kevin Durant was basically pushing the Nets management to make that trade for James Harden last season. That’s kind of why they wanted him out because it made him look bad on his job.

“It made Durant look bad to his employers because last year when James Harden was playing for that team, even though Steve Nash was the head coach, he was playing within a Mike D’Antoni system. This was Houston all over again. This season the playbook shifted much. That’s not a Mike D’Antoni system anymore.”