*On Friday, Houston Rockets guard James Harden took to Twitter to explain that in order to get better at the game, you have to put a lot of love into it.
Harden may have surprised many NBA fans when he noted on social media that “Most players don’t really love basketball. They just do it because they can jump high or shoot the ball very well or they’re tall,” he said.
“But it’s been like that way since high school. Just every single year you’ve got to find ways to get better and come back with something different, something new. A game changer,” he added.
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“Most players don’t really love basketball. They just do it because they can jump high or shoot the ball very well or they’re tall… But it’s been that way since HS. Every single year you’ve got to find ways to get better.” – @JHarden13
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) February 9, 2019
Fans, meanwhile, seem to be in awe of the bond between Harden and his mother, Monja Willis; and anyone who dares to talk smack about her boy, Mama Willis is quick to put ’em in their place.
“I just turn around and say: ‘Listen, don’t talk about my son. He’s working hard out there. You don’t want nobody talking about your son or your daughter, so you treat my son with that same respect. And besides that, you’ve never played basketball, so you don’t know what it takes to be out there on that court,'” Willis said. “I tell ’em. I just let ’em know.”
Fans aren’t the only ones who’ll get read from Harden’s mom. She’s also quick to school internet trolls who come for her son.
“He [James] tells me, ‘Mom, stay off Facebook’ and all social media, so I don’t have some of them,” Willis said. “I have Instagram because I show my kids and my grandkids, sneak in there sometimes. But I’m still going to be a mom, my feelings still get hurt, just like any other mom. Anybody talk about your kids, your feelings are going to get hurt. So whether they are playing basketball or working at McDonald’s, if somebody talks about your kid, you’ll have an attitude about it.”
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