Lil B lifts the curse he placed on Rockets’ James Harden (Video)

James Harden can officially worry about nothing but playing basketball. Lil B has lifted the curse on Harden for doing the cooking celebration.

Finally, James Harden has no more excuses if he doesn’t show up in the playoffs and under-perform. Let’s recap what the beef between the Rockets’ star and Lil B is.

Lil B the Based God, a rapper, who’s based in the Bay Area did not particularly like Harden’s lack of credit every time he did his celebration. Everyone knows which celebration I’m talking about, the one where Harden does a little flick of the wrist in a pretend bowl, looking like a chef that’s cookin’.

Every time Harden was asked where he got the celebration from, he never pointed out the inventor. Lil B wanted the credit and Harden refused to give it to him. So in 2015, when the Rockets were playing the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals, a curse was placed on Harden by the rapper.

That curse has lasted through this season, when Lil B tweeted this:

Maybe the curse was the reason that Harden has been underwhelming in the playoffs, as he hasn’t been able to get over the hump and take the Rockets to the Finals.

Finally, Lil B decided enough was enough. He went on First Take this past week in Oakland and decided to lift the curse off of Harden.

Looks like you’re off the hook James Harden. Lil B won’t be issuing any more curses. With Marcellus Wiley, Molly Qerim and Max Kellerman as witnesses, the Bay Area rapper went on to say “the curse is lifted.”

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Maybe now Harden will be able to lead the Rockets further in the playoffs and not have to worry about the other nonsense in the playoffs. James Harden was still effective and will likely finish runner up in the MVP race to Russell Westbrook, but it seems like a monkey is off his back.