"It was like an afternoon phone call, like four o'clock and I had an hour or so to make my decision, whether I wanted to take the offer or not. I'm thinking to myself, 'This is the most money I've ever made in my life and you're giving me a short amount of time to decide.' And it wasn't enough time for me," Harden said.
A few hours later, he received a phone call from Thunder General Manager Sam Presti. That's when he learned that he had been
traded to the Houston Rockets.
"That was a very, very sad night," Harden said.
"I went home, laid down and just started tearing up. We had big plans that we were going to win a championship for years," Harden added.
Harden says that hurt turned to anger.
"It's been almost four years and I still think about it," he said in the video from 2016.
Officials with the Thunder say they wanted Harden to stay,
but a disagreement over money is what led to the trade.