James Harden’s Move to Brooklyn Required a Wardrobe Overhaul
January is a horrible time to start a new job in Brooklyn. The temperatures drop into the low double digits. The wind stings your face. City dwellers ransack every Trader Joe’s in anticipation of storms. But James Harden, who grew up in Los Angeles and went to school in Arizona, is enjoying his first New York winter, having been traded from the Houston Rockets to the Brooklyn Nets last month. Sitting in his apartment, waiting for the storm to pass, he texted his stylist Kesha McLeod: “It’s pretty cool.”
Harden’s trade to the Nets has led to all sorts of new experiences and challenges for the former MVP: there is the snow, and the more pressing task of learning to gel with his two new All-NBA teammates. There is also the matter of fits. “I had to change my whole wardrobe,” Harden told ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols. “It’s freezing!”