'The notion that James Harden is doing the Sixers some kind of favor here is spin, nothing more,' writes MikeSielski. 'If anything, it’s the other way around. If anything, he should be raising a glass to them, not to himself.'
— until they have wine to sell or an image to burnish or. But Chris Haynes, the reporter who conducted the interview, is a pro, and in writing the story, he knew to push the booze news to the bottom and put the more relevant and interesting quotes up top.
, which in turn allowed the Sixers the salary-cap space to make the additions they have so far this summer — the signing of free agent/Harden compadre P.J. Tucker among them.“I told Daryl to improve the roster, sign who we needed to sign, and give me whatever is left over,” Harden said. “This is how bad I want to win. I want to compete for a championship. That’s all that matters to me at this stage. I’m willing to take less to put us in position to accomplish that.
Sure, by opting in, he would have been eligible for a maximum contract extension worth up to $233 million. But just because he would have been eligible for such an extension doesn’t mean the Sixers would have been eager to give him one, and imagine the public reaction if he had insisted on playing next season for $47.3 million.
“I don’t really listen to what people are saying,” Harden said. “I wasn’t right last season, and I still almost averaged a triple-double. If anybody else had those numbers, we’d be talking about them getting the max. People were used to seeing me averaging 40, 30 points, and so they viewed it as a down year. I was in Philadelphia for a couple of months and I had to learn on the fly. That’s just what it was.
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