Daily News | Can the Sixers convince James Harden to stay? It is (still) Daryl Morey’s best option.
The tick of the second hand, the whisper of the wind, people writing songs that voices never share.The message to James Harden and the Clippers is simple:don’t have much leverage when it comes to extracting a fair price for Harden. What little leverage they have is the fact they don’t have much to lose.
You want to take Terance Mann off the table? We’ll wait. You want to wrap that first-round pick in enough protections to make it meaningless? We’ll wait. You want all of the gain and none of the pain? That’s fine.Same goes for Harden. We’ll try to do right by you, but we have to do right by ourselves. We are contractually obligated to pay you $35 million. You are contractually obligated to play basketball.
Whatever Harden’s motivations, it clearly isn’t personal. Last week, photographers captured him partying with Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris, and former Sixers co-owner Michael Rubin at a party in Las Vegas. Consider Embiid’s comments to Showtime’s Rachel Nichols: There has been none of the anonymous grenade-lobbing of the Ben Simmons fiasco. No reports of issues with his teammates, or even of management. The assumption is that Harden is operating more or less on principle. He wanted a long-term contract, he thought he left money on the table when he declined a $47 million player option last season to re-sign for $35 million plus a second player option. The Sixers were reluctant to give him the long-term contract he sought.
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