[Shams] James Harden: “Daryl Morey is a liar and I will never be a part of an organization that he’s a part of. Let me say that again..."

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• ConditionOverload@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Holy hell I’ve never seen a player just this kind of direct language before at a manager. That’s crazy. Since they’re not planning on trading him now, would Harden simply just not play come the start of the season?

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  • automator404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seems like he doesn’t intend to play. It’s a Ben Simmons situation all over again

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    • jaybirrd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Sixers are truly cursed

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  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He has to play or at least show up physically, otherwise philly can reject any contract he signs after this year. Essential, James can either retire or play out this last year. He’ll probably phone it in until they find a trade partner… Which is unlikely because no one wants to give money to a player that has asked out of the past two three places he’s landed. He also demanded the places he was traded to. To think two mvps from the past 10 years are essentially vet minimum players now. Westbrook and harden

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• Hurts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am dead inside. Thank goodness baseball and football can hold my attention through February without worrying about the dumpster fire Sixers

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  • jimmyjamxoxo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Haha sorry to hear that. But you know the silver lining is, Sixers will not have the albatross of a huge contract with a declining player round their neck after this season. Morey says Harden is a 1 year rental like Kawhi was.

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• Acat114@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think this points to what everybody had speculated. James took a pay cut with the hush hush promise of a bigger deal after the season. James probably asked for that player option thinking he could just leave, but there aren’t a lot of teams lining up to give Harden a 4 year $200m deal. Now he’s stuck, and Morey is stuck.

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  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If they can find evidence of that, Morey should be banned for life and Harden should be banned for multiple years (only because they probably can't actually ban him for life with the CBA).

    I sincerely give zero fucks about teams making promises about future deals in other sports, but the way the NBA is set up with the entire roster construction being about gaming ways to go over the cap, future promises are straight up cheating.

    But yeah, I doubt you can prove it.

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• LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We all know Harden took a pay cut last year. What we don’t know is why. Something was promised to Harden and he feels he hasn’t been rewarded for the pay cut. Harden, Morey, and Sixers should be investigated.

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  • bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The league already investigated the Sixers for this and didn’t find anything. If there was actually any sort of handshake deal, Harden was stomping on that as soon as Christmas Day 2022, not even halfway through the regular season when his camp started leaking that he was wanting to go back to Houston.

    If there was a handshake deal, my guess is that it was contingent on playoff success, and Harden started getting cold feet after the really rough start to the season, so he started those leaks to try and leverage a deal early either with the Sixers or the Rockets. Word on the street is Udoka shut that down on Houston’s end, and then no other team wanted him (or didn’t make an offer that he was interested in) so he was essentially forced to opt in to the second year with Philly.

    The way I see it, Harden is trying to save face as well as garner the support of other players by trying to put the blame 100% on Morey.

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn, talk about burning bridges. This is blowing up the bridge.

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  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When did real life become more like cheesy “reality TV” drama?

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    • bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh this is just how things always are with the Sixers

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• rezz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who needs nuclear ICBMs when you can host a James Harden promo?

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  • bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    J Harden Oppenheimer

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    • rezz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So Hitler made the bomb.

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• gon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe he just retires. I think that’d be a very sad way to go, but at the same time it’d be a gigantic slap in the face of the 6ers. IDK if holding out/putting on the fat suit is a better option but well.

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  • jimmyjamxoxo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think he’s going to retire. The reason he’s unhappy is he doesn’t have the long term contract he wants. He’ll play this season as per CBA rules and get his contract next year with whomever.

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• sdf05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This ain’t looking too good

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• theragu40@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Holy shit lol.

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