The championship team turned upside down, but there was still one team that was quiet! Harden can't really blame anyone

In October, the new NBA season officially kicked off, with teams opening media days, training camps, and then the regular season will officially start after several preseason games. In the past 1 week, Lillard has been sent to the Bucks by the Blazers, Holladay acquired by the Blazers, sent to the Celtics, and the Blazers don't want Brogton very much and are expected to continue trading. After this lap, the Blazers made a lot of money, not only got Ayton, Lowe, at least three first-round picks and two first-round swaps, but also easily completed the "revenge" against Lillard, don't send you to the Heat, it doesn't matter if you go to the Bucks, the Celtics also become vested interests.

Of course, this summer, many championship teams have turned upside down: the Lakers are making up, like Vincent, Reddish, Wood, Prince and others joined, strictly speaking, the Lakers will be a champion next season; The Suns got Beal and attracted a large number of base-paid titans to defect, including Nurkic and Allen in the Lillard trade, successfully making up for defensive deficiencies; When the Warriors get Paul, it's hard to immediately judge whether it's good or bad, but at least management is trying to build a team around Curry to win the championship; The Eastern Bucks get Lillard and the Celtics get Porzingis + Holladay. After counting laps, another interesting news is that Philadelphia reporter Pompeo revealed that the 76ers are still confident in competing with the Bucks and the Green Army for the Eastern Conference championship, and management believes the team has the ability! With the new season about to start, what should Harden's future do?

First of all, the media day event, Harden attended or not, it doesn't matter at all! After a summer of nearly 3 months of rip-off, Harden is forced to helpless even if he finally succumbs to the 76ers, and he is likely not to cooperate with Embiid and Maxi so much in the new season, willing to be the purest green leaf. Secondly, there are two details worth pondering on Harden's application to leave the team: First, the Clippers have always refused to pay more than 1 first-round chip for Harden, and when the 76ers were determined to get some more oil from Harden, the Clippers had already set their sights on Holladay and Brogton. Second, Harden's market value depends largely on his remaining contract life, only 1 year of use, even if other teams are interested in Harden, they are unlikely to pay blood. One such example is the Knicks, who contacted 76ers back in July but fell short.

Charania said Harden was determined not to attend the media day, and he would only wait for the 76ers to trade. According to sources, Harden is very unhappy that the team did not send it to the Clippers. And when the 76ers tried to start trade negotiations with the Clippers again, nothing went on! To be sure, since Harden took a big salary cut and signed a 1+1 contract with the 76ers last summer, the 76ers have been cheating on Harden on three fronts. First, without promises, it will be difficult for Harden himself to make a decision to cut salaries significantly to make team reinforcements; Second, the 76ers said this summer that they value Harden, and on the other hand, they are only willing to give up to 1+1 flexible contracts, one on the surface; Third, tricking Harden into executing player options, from agreeing to trade Harden to the delay after the media day opens, which is a contract break.

The 76ers team, including their management, has indeed rotten reputations in this league, otherwise they would not have been so difficult to find a home last season to avoid taxes, including the feud with Simmons. But is Harden wrong? People who really like and follow Harden must understand Harden's biggest weakness, not the inability to step up at key moments in the playoffs, but the lack of ruthlessness in personality to show a tough side. Since the Rockets era, Harden has been a moderate leader, even if the conflict with Howard and the infighting between Paul and Paul, Harden has not publicly stood on the opposite side and expressed his emotions. During the Nets days, Harden didn't say until he left that he didn't get the respect he deserved. And in the 76ers, when former coach Rivers Sr. pressed Harden to release the ball again and again, Harden tolerated.

When Embiid complained that he didn't have the ball, Harden put up with it. Over time, some of Harden's own emotions are pressed in the bottom of his heart, and there is a node to explode, the key is this node, or the time of his final year of player selection, or from the American media to the NBA league, are greatly weakening the time period of Harden's true value. To take the simplest example, Harden has averaged at least 20 points and 10 assists per game in the past 4 years, the first in history, and the ability to lead the team to maintain the lower limit is clearly visible, but compared to Holladay, who is a few months younger than him, Harden's market value? Holladay can trade two instant picks + two first-round picks, while the Clippers won't even shell out more than 1 first-round pick for Harden. Simply put, when you can't respect yourself, it's hard for others to respect you.

When Harden was about to leave the Rockets, the way he broke the can actually made the league, including many teams, hostile to him, which is the original words of columnist McMahon, and Harden will certainly not receive much reception again. So this time, the 76ers shouted very loudly, but there was not much action, plus soft violence to limit Harden, Harden had nothing to do. Regarding Harden's game with the 76ers, I think Harden needs to play for a few more months, and leaving before the trade deadline is a good option. Sometimes, time will give the right answer, and give the Clippers some time to think about it.