Take a look at James Harden’s amazing change.

A multi-week drama about James Harden continued last night when the former MVP finally appeared in public and played in the Houston Rockets ’preseason game. The bearded superstar during the break between seasons was pretty neglected and presented herself in a much fuller edition than the one we remember.

The returnee to a team he no longer wants to play on the floor spent 21 minutes and scored 12 points in a 112-98 victory over the San Antonio Spurs, overshadowed by a serious injury to young Rockets player Chris Clemons. After the end of last season and the departures of general manager Daryl Morey and coach Mike D'Antoni, Harden requested a trade, preferably in the Brooklyn Nets or Philadelphia 76ers. On the day he was due to arrive in Houston and go into quarantine before preparations began, Harden was at a birthday party of a friend of the rapper and was tossing banknotes at a strip club. Although he did not give up his desire to trade, he announced to the club that he would continue to behave professionally, but after the game he nonchalantly avoided the media so as not to have to talk about the current situation.

The same thing was done recently by Kyrie Irving in protest of the "wrong image the media creates of him" and he changed his mind after the NBA fined him $ 25,000, and many colleagues convinced him to get serious, like Damian Lillard who banished him in Instagram Live and kindly asked him to start talking to reporters.