The Nuggets have their hands full with Tom Brady.
Intellectually, that’s the comparison David Adelman offered for James Harden this week, needing a different sport to accurately place the patience and precision with which Harden operates a pick-and-roll. The idea is that he’s still got it, even as his beard grays.
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Another apt parallel would be Denver’s own past-his-prime gunslinger.
“He reminds me, at his age now, of some of the great drop-back quarterbacks.