If there is one thing Nate Robinson got out of the brief exchange he had with James Harden during a 2018 NBA All-Star Game media event over the weekend, its that the Rockets star sure knows how to shoot a dream down. Robinson had but one request to make of the bearded jock, and that was that he simply provide a pointer or two on how he too can grow out a full jaw of whiskers. Harden's response? "In life, things just can't happen."

"It's over for you bro," Harden said to laughs from a crowd of reporters at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Saturday, February 17.

Robinson had been among the sea of credentialed journalists on hand in hopes of getting the best quotes possible for their news publications. Himself, a budding member of the press, Robinson worked the event on behalf of Sports Illustrated - although he also took every opportunity possible to pitch his HolDat podcast.

As soon as Harden was able to discern where the retired baller was going with his inquiry "from one beard guy to another," he shook his head and rolled his eyes with a smile. "That's not a beard," Harden would quickly reply.

From that point forward he continued to shoot down every one of Robinson's pathetic attempts at baiting a solution that might give him the grill of a Carlos Boozer. Booze, who stood to the right of Harden, just laughed through the entire episode before acknowledging that Robinson ought to consider himself blessed when Harden pointed out that some guys (like Booze) can't say the same about the hair on their head.

"Hold that Booze!" Robinson concluded the back and forth saying; thereby getting off a successful plug of his HolDat podcast title in exchange for the L he received from the 'Beard Gang' tandem.

Source: blacksportsonline.com