Oh, and this will never, ever, ever stop being funny. https://deadspin.com/i-cant-stop-watching-james-hardens-dandruff-rock-fly-in-1655965934
oh my, that's OKmagazine level of NBA gossip. How do you folks even learn this stuff? All I know is Oubre is a lightweight wing player who has some good games sometimes, and Philly needs some backcourt depth in case Harden gets traded.
I just don’t think that Brogdon is worth anywhere close to that. I would have expected that kind of haul for Jrue. I think Brogdon is worth a first.
Swap RoCo & Batum. I'd rather have Batum here. Also swap Boston for Kenyon Martin & send him here. Martin can start at SF for the Blazers. I'd be willing to give up 2-2nds to do that. Like this:
I wonder if Philly would want all that salary coming back for future years? I believe they're expected to have a good amount of cap space this season to attempt to lure someone to go alongside Embiid.
I know, right, lol? Reddit is a shithole, but there are some golden nuggets to be found occasionally...
Harden's situation just shows how immature he and some other NBA players are. Folks put up with so much shit from NBA players due to their skills but as that declines...so does a player's ability to play GOD with the organization they play on. Harden is going through that awareness in the most public way right now. Sadly....he going through this in the worst way possible and IMO destroying his NBA legacy.
I mean, his legacy has always bee as a shooter who gets tunnel vision and focuses on himself to the detriment of his team (and cheesed the rules to get free throws), so this doesn't exactly go against that. He and Russell "I miss shots to get my own rebound for the triple double" Westbrook were perfect for each other in the way they were both toxic but somehow made their team better...?
I respectfully disagree. I hate the Clippers as much as I hate Harden. I think he would destroy them from within. Kawhi would go insane seeing his defense. PG wouldn't get the ball as much. The team would be capped into the future. If we could profit from their destruction, I'm all in.
https://www.si.com/.amp/nba/2023/10...ames-harden-ime-udoka-scoring-ambitions-clear Rockets Pursued Deal with James Harden Until He Made Scoring Ambitions Clear, Per Report On Wednesday’s First Take, Smith said a “very reliable source” told him that the Rockets were set to offer Harden a max deal. But Houston and new coach Ime Udoka pulled back when Harden said that he wanted to win another scoring title. That ambition, expressed over the desire to win an NBA championship, apparently turned off a new coach who sought a more team-oriented approach. Harden won three consecutive NBA scoring titles from 2017 through ’20. In the three seasons since then, Steph Curry and Joel Embiid have led the league in scoring average. Perhaps this explains Harden’s desire to get out of Philadelphia. He likely won’t win another scoring title while playing with Embiid. But building a team around a player scoring more than 30 points per game (Embiid’s 33.1 points per game average led the league last season) isn’t the way Ukoka wanted to conduct his business. If true, this is an astounding contention. As Smith said, Harden talked himself out of a possible contract worth more than $200 million, not to mention returning to the team with whom he played nine seasons. Was another scoring title worth all that?
