Daily News | James Harden chose the Sixers. He has no choice but to give them his best. | Mike Sielski
about how it wasn’t Embiid or Rivers or Philly fans or the delicate state of his mental health that compelled him to sit out this season and leave the better part of $170 million on the table. It was something more personal, more nebulous, “a bunch of things I was dealing with,” he said. Then Harden, who previously loved Houston but left the Rockets and presumably loved Brooklyn for at least a week before forcing his way from the Nets to the Sixers, tied himself into a similar mess of knots.
Just once, it would be nice if Harden, Simmons, and athletes who have pulled off similar power plays would be open and frank about why they do it. Simmons didn’t want to be here anymore. Harden didn’t want to be in Brooklyn after he didn’t want to be in Houston. And since, in the NBA, highly skilled and highly paid players can often dictate their own terms, they do. It’s fine. In some ways, it’s good. Just own it, guys.
Maybe the greater motivation for Harden, however, is the reality that awaits him if his infamous wanderlust starts tingling again. The Sixers are his third team in the last 14 months, and if he decides Rivers isn’t running enough of the offense through him … or if Embiid thinks Rivers is running too much of the offense through him … or if he wakes up one morning and says to himself,… well, too bad, James. You’re pretty much out of luck.
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