James Harden says sacrificing his role and his money after Houston to chase a ring got him nothing back but lost swagger “Let me just try to sacrifice the money, the individual accolades, all that. Let me just try to sacrifice and switch it up a little bit, and hopefully that’ll work in my favor in the sense of trying to win a championship.” “So that’s when the Brooklyn situation happened, that was tricky. We had the opportunity. And then the Philly situation, where it’s like same thing: let me just be a playmaker, switch up my role.” “None of that worked. Like, you feel me?” “I sacrificed money, I sacrificed being the top scorer that I am, that I still am and will be. Long story short: it was for nothing.” “I lost a lot of money and I lost a lot of swagger on the court, just from sacrificing, thinking that all that’s gonna get me to win a championship.”