Averaging 20+7+9 per game! Regardless of how far Harden falls, Philadelphia will also offer a top-salary contract?

Since Harden scored 30+ points for three consecutive seasons and won three leading trophies + an MVP trophy, he has become the undisputed "strongest 2nd in the active duty". After Harden won all the top individual honors in the regular season, he also chased the first championship trophy of his career like most of the league's predecessors.

And in order to chase the championship trophy, Harden even gave up the Rockets' large contract to renew his contract in advance and gave up the position of the star. It's just that in the more than one season that Harden joined the Nets, due to the impact of injury + "part-time Irving", the team not only failed to win the championship as desired, but even got farther and farther away from the championship...

Due to the impact of "injury + new rules" in the new season, Harden's performance on the offensive end has declined greatly. However, when Harden could not fully play, Durant could not play because of injuries and Irving could not play because of faith, which made Harden make the decision to leave the team and chose to join Philadelphia and join Embiid.

Although at the beginning of joining Philadelphia, Harden did play a good statistical performance in the first five games - 24.6 points, 7.6 boards, 12.4 assists, 54.1% shooting rate + 43.5% three-point shooting rate. However, after these five "sweet periods", Harden still returned to the state of unsatisfactory state in the early part of the season.

After five "sweet periods", Harden's last 14 games for Philadelphia averaged only 20.2 points, 7.2 boards and 9.2 assists per game, 37.0% shooting rate + 28.8% three-point shooting rate, and the offensive data and efficiency further declined.

In contrast, in the 44 games played for the Nets in the early part of the season, Harden was able to contribute 22.5 points, 7.9 boards, 10.1 assists, 41.2% shooting rate + 31.5% three-point shooting. That is to say, after five "sweet periods", Harden is now in a bad state compared to the Nets in the early days, only decreasing and not increasing.

So don't look at the transaction after Getting Harden, now Philadelphia not only has the blessing of the two superstars of "Embiid + Harden", but also the assistance of Harris, Maxi and others; but in fact, their record has not improved substantially compared to before Harden's arrival.

Since Harden joined , Philadelphia's record has not improved substantially, and its personal data performance is still poor. Poor records and poor statistics have led to the sound of Harden not getting a top salary contract in the offseason.

So, Will Harden, who is 20+7+9 per game in Philadelphia in the later period, really not get a maximum salary contract?

Although Harden briefly played an efficient offensive performance (five games) after joining Philadelphia, he has since directly slipped to 20.2 points, 7.2 boards, 9.2 assists, 37.0% shooting rate + 28.8% three-point shooting rate, and the scoring and efficiency are even far less than in the Nets era. However, Harden's performance may affect how far Philadelphia can go in the playoffs, but it will not affect his continued access to a big contract.

1. Averaging 22+7+10 per game in the season, Harden is still worth a maximum salary contract. Although the new season, whether it is the Nets period or the Philadelphia period, Harden has played a lot of "crotch pull" games. But in fact, so far in the new season, Ha has still contributed 22.2 points, 7.8 boards, 10.1 assists, and 41.2% of the personal performance of shooting.

And this is still in the case of Harden's sharp reduction in the number of shots, if he can focus on attacking like the Rockets period and give up organizing the team, I believe that Harden's offensive efficiency and data will still have a lot of improvement.

Because of this, even if Philadelphia is unwilling to provide a maximum salary contract in the offseason, with Harden's current personal performance, I believe there will still be many teams interested in him. For example, a team like the Kings who missed the playoffs for 16 consecutive years can almost end the embarrassing record of not being able to enter the playoffs once Harden gets it.

2, if you choose to give up Harden, Philadelphia will not find a replacement in a short period of time. Due to simmons influence in the new season, Philadelphia has almost become Embiid's one-man team. While Philadelphia did do play well under Peak Embiid, few saw them as strong contenders for the championship.

Because only Embiid has a superstar blessing, Philadelphia is obviously difficult to compete with the Bucks, Nets, Green Kai and other teams; and harden, although the performance is not good, but after he joined, Philadelphia does have the strength of the Bucks, Nets and other teams.

Once Philadelphia chooses to abandon Harden in the offseason, it will not only be difficult for them to find a "replacement" for Harden, but also waste the "Simmons + Drummond + Curry Jr. + first-round pick" trading chips. Because in the 22-23 season, Harden has player options and has the right to choose to jump out of the contract...

If Harden can't reasonably strengthen after leaving, so that the team continues to maintain the strength of the championship, then Embiid has the heart of the team, which is really a fatal blow to Philadelphia. Because once Embiid leaves, Philadelphia may have to rebuild again...

3, Harden's influence is still there, he can still bring huge traffic to the team. Although Embiid currently averages 30.4 points, 11.6 boards, 4.2 assists per game, and 49.6% shooting percentage, personal data performance is more than one level better than Harden. But now Embiid's actual influence is still not as good as Harden's...

I don't know if anyone noticed that before Harden joined Philadelphia, compared with most teams in the league, Philadelphia's related reports are not small. But compared to the Nets, Warriors, Lakers and other teams with their own traffic, Philadelphia is nothing at all.

However, after Harden joined, whether it was praising him or blackening him, Philadelphia's traffic did rise a level. This is mainly because Harden has its own traffic, after all, Harden's peak years, but can be comparable to Curry, James, Durant and other superstars.

Teams like the Bucks, Green Kai, Grizzlies, Jazz and other teams that lack heat and lack traffic can also make their own traffic rise a level once hardened. Or like the Kings, Knicks, Magic, which have neither a playoff chance nor a hot stream, Harden's joining will not only allow the team to impact the playoffs, but also make the team owner make a lot of money...

In summary, because "the new season averaged 22+7+10 per game, Philadelphia could not find a replacement in a short period of time, and Harden can still bring huge traffic to the team", this also means that even if Harden does not play the expected performance in the new season, his value is still difficult to replace most stars in the league. So in fact, no matter how far Harden will fall this year, Philadelphia will most likely offer a maximum salary contract "on time" this summer to keep Harden.