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They've had not competing news updates, but it was it 50 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,439 was updates. It was a material update. So if anyone hasn't seen, 51 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:30,240 would reported that the Sixers have ended trade talks with the disgruntled James Harden and 52 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:36,199 that they are going with him into training camp. Conversely, Sam amckh had 53 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,759 reported, and I believe some even Woad or maybe it was Sham's, reported 54 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:43,360 that James Harden won't show up to training camp. Sam A. Mckhad reporting 55 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,719 that didn't refute that, but said it's not clear whether Harden will show up 56 00:03:46,719 --> 00:03:49,199 to training camp. If he's still on the Sixers, he still wants a 57 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:54,319 trade. The Clippers remain his preferred destination. This is not significant in the 58 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,919 sense of you don't stop trade talks like the trade talks are never done. 59 00:03:58,919 --> 00:04:01,159 If there's a team that wants to make an offer for James Harden, they 60 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:03,840 can call the Sixers and make an offer for James Harden. So this is 61 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:09,080 just very much a leverage play to get the information out there that no, 62 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:11,599 we're prepared to go into training camp with him, and we're prepared to make 63 00:04:11,639 --> 00:04:15,360 this awkward. And normally I would say that they're bluffing in most cases, 64 00:04:15,399 --> 00:04:19,519 but we've seen Daryl Morey do this before, and not two years ago, 65 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:24,240 basically with the Ben Simmons stuff. And I would argue because James Harden, 66 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,920 Yeah, some of his playoff on evenness is fresh in the minds of everyone. 67 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,000 He's coming off a year in which you could say, hey, he 68 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,480 was fringe all MBA. Most of the catchall analytics had him as a certified 69 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,560 on MBA player. There's value there. He's headed into free agency, but 70 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,519 you will get his bird rights, you can't extend him whatever. So it's 71 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,800 just I would expect Daryl Morey too if he needs to or doesn't get the 72 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,279 offer he wants, let's this leak into training camp, and then that becomes 73 00:04:48,319 --> 00:04:53,279 the issue of Okay, James Harden picked up his player option. Is he 74 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,879 gonna hold out a training camp. Is he hurting himself more than he's hurting 75 00:04:56,879 --> 00:05:00,560 the Sixers in that regard? Not necessary serily, because worst case scenario, 76 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,240 you could sit out next season, then just free and clear leave on the 77 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,959 open market. But if he wants to get the most money possible because the 78 00:05:05,959 --> 00:05:10,040 teams he wants to play for ergo and the Clippers are not going to have 79 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:14,519 max cap space next summer, you need a trade almost And so yeah, 80 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,040 you could hope the Sixers would facilitate a sign and trade since you would be 81 00:05:17,079 --> 00:05:19,800 there on your own free will. But again, the Clippers are not set 82 00:05:19,879 --> 00:05:24,120 up to complete a sign and trade, and the Sixers clearly aren't interested in 83 00:05:24,319 --> 00:05:27,000 I wouldn't even say the bare bones package. But from all the reporting, 84 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,120 even if the Clippers put everything on the table, you could trade up to 85 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:31,680 a first round pick. Terrence Mann is in there a bunch of expirings, 86 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:38,000 it doesn't feel like that would get the job done. And this is going 87 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,639 to get very ugly, insofar as you don't think it's gotten ugly already, 88 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:48,000 because maybe this speeds up negotiations. But if you're the Sixers and you're prioritizing 89 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:54,439 cap space next summer or this monster return, you're kind of limited in the 90 00:05:54,439 --> 00:05:57,319 scope of offers you can accept, and so the Clippers can help you with 91 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,600 the cap space element, but that also kind of means you can figure it 92 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,680 out later. But maybe the single best asset that you would have in that 93 00:06:02,759 --> 00:06:06,759 trade is Terrence Man. Are you gonna want his eleven million dollars or whatever 94 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,439 it is on the books? I would absolutely take it if you're gonna accept 95 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,680 that offer. But if you're just gonna get a first round pick and Terrence 96 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,600 Man for James Harden and then a bunch of expirings, that gets tough to 97 00:06:16,639 --> 00:06:20,040 say. Okay, is next year more than a gap year for us? 98 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:25,879 At the same time, we have not heard, at least in droves of 99 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,639 other teams that are going to be interested in James Harden. The Knicks were 100 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,600 loosely linked to him at the beginning. I doubt they would throw out a 101 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:36,600 godfather offer for him. We kind of heard some Miami noise, but that 102 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,120 was, you know, it's in the middle of the Dame stuff. And 103 00:06:40,199 --> 00:06:45,120 that's another aspect of this that could be holding up the James Harden negotiations is 104 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,680 Miami specifically, but I'm sure there are other teams out there. You want 105 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,279 to see where Damian Lillard goes, because he is going to be the bigger 106 00:06:51,319 --> 00:06:56,160 get right now. He's not going to be a free agent, and I 107 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,639 think I don't want to say that he's outright the better play I think he's 108 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,800 the more proven playoff performer, that's for sure, and I think you can 109 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,720 make the case that he's the better player. That's an interesting one, Harden 110 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:11,079 versus Lillard. The playmaking for Harden is better than Lillards, but just Lillard's 111 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:15,079 outside shooting and him being more familiar playing off the ball, I can understand 112 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,800 why that would appeal to other teams more. But we're also talking about two 113 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,560 players where the scope of their trade requests, demands, whatever you want to 114 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,839 call it, are one team. So are either of these two going to 115 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,720 open it up? And that's what James Harden could do. I don't think 116 00:07:28,759 --> 00:07:32,959 Morey's necessarily and the Sixers are listening to James Harden's request. Yes, the 117 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,839 reporting says that they've tried to talk to the Clippers, and they've had discussions 118 00:07:36,839 --> 00:07:40,399 with the Clippers, but this isn't kind of like I mean, it's the 119 00:07:40,439 --> 00:07:43,399 same thing with the Blazers is they've made it clear that they're going to hold 120 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,839 sort of this open court when it comes to shopping these guys. But the 121 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,519 reporting has been so sparse on what other teams have actually called and made offers 122 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:57,279 that This is why reports like this come out, is that maybe Daryl Morey 123 00:07:57,279 --> 00:08:01,600 and the Sixers are trying to drive up some not eleventh hour interest, but 124 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,879 because the offseason is not necessarily over yet, but just throwing another wrinkle into 125 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:09,439 the equation, a curveball into the equation, to see kind of what can 126 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,959 become of this. And I don't I still would expect Harden to be on 127 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,399 the Sixers for training camp in part because which is why this is going to 128 00:08:16,399 --> 00:08:20,560 get ugly. And I guess this is the long about, long, roundabout 129 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,120 way of getting to the point of this podcast. The Sixers want to do 130 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:28,319 something so specific and aggressive that I don't know that there's a team out there 131 00:08:28,399 --> 00:08:31,200 right now at this point in the offseason, when cap space has been spent, 132 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,879 when teams want to see who they are, when you also know that 133 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:39,600 James Harden is really so far only communicated a desire to play for the Clippers 134 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,559 that is going to come in and be like, hey, here's expiring contracts 135 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:46,519 and enough draft equity so that you can go turn around and get another player 136 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:52,279 so that James Harden's departure doesn't culminate in a gap year for Joel Embiid, 137 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,279 who that looms over everything of all this where I think it's kind of accepted 138 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:03,279 within NBA circles and even among MBA intelligenza and just podcasters that the Sixers are 139 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:09,799 probably a year away from like the Joel Embiid reckoning and his trade request. 140 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,320 He can see what they do next offseason or what the team looks like. 141 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,960 At the same time, if you're Joel Embid congratulations to him, the newly 142 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:20,039 married Joel Embiid, and you're watching all this, could it technically if you 143 00:09:20,039 --> 00:09:22,559 think James Harden's going to show up out of shape, disgruntled or not at 144 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,480 all, does that accelerate the trade request here? I don't believe it does. 145 00:09:26,519 --> 00:09:30,600 And I did say on a previous podcast to hold myself accountable, that 146 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:33,519 I could see it doing that. But if you're James Harden, you're sitting 147 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:37,480 here and you're watching what Daryl Morey did with Ben Simmons, you lived through 148 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:41,399 that and what he's saying he will do essentially either directly or indirectly with the 149 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,519 James Harden sweepstakes, let's call it. You don't want to request it trade 150 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,000 now? Because he's not sending you anywhere, or the offers is gonna be 151 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:50,039 so high that you're gonna have to come into this season anyway. You don't 152 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:54,240 want to have to deal with any blowback from fans or just the trade request 153 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,320 looming over your head as you go into two training camp. So I do 154 00:09:56,399 --> 00:10:00,919 not believe anymore that this is going to I didn't give enough thought at the 155 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:05,200 time. I don't think this accelerates the Jowell and Being trade request timeline. 156 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,360 I think what the Sixers get is an opportunity to make whatever they can out 157 00:10:09,399 --> 00:10:13,519 of Harden, and then you go through next offseason and you see what becomes 158 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:16,919 of this team. I don't know what becomes of this team, though. 159 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,399 I don't see how you trade James Harden and are better off in any way, 160 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,440 shape or form, because what you need to do to be better off 161 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:28,879 is to either parlay him into a star or you need to get enough assets 162 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:33,159 to then turn around and trade for a star immediately. And I know that 163 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,600 a lot of people speculated would they be a team that rolls the dice on 164 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:41,240 Damian Lillard. Let's just let's assume. Let's assume that they would be willing 165 00:10:41,279 --> 00:10:43,720 to do that. You're not getting Damian Lillard for James Harden. He doesn't 166 00:10:43,759 --> 00:10:48,000 fit anything with the Blazer's timeline. Now you could rope in a third team. 167 00:10:48,279 --> 00:10:50,480 We haven't seen the third team suitors for James Harden. So are they 168 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:54,440 going to send you enough to where you can turn around and then trade for 169 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:58,279 Damian Lillard? And the problem there is, whatever they give you, are 170 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:03,399 you still include Tyrese Maxie in a Damian Lillard trade? And does that necessitate 171 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,559 a fourth team all of a sudden or is that part of the third team 172 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,360 structure. Well, you're not trading Harden and Maxie to the same team, 173 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:13,720 So if that's the same transaction, there's a fourth team. Because I don't 174 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,799 Maxie's about to get paid. He's a really good player. Maybe Portland would 175 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:20,080 have interested him. But you have Scoot, you have Anthony Simmons, you 176 00:11:20,159 --> 00:11:24,799 have Shayden Sharp. It's already crowded with Damian Lillard, and changing him out 177 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:26,879 for Tyrese Maxie in a contract year, you can't look at that and say, 178 00:11:26,919 --> 00:11:31,080 well, we'll just parlay him into someone else. So he's not going 179 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,519 to be a part or at least going to the Blazers and any Damian Lillard 180 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,720 trade, and then you have to sit there and ask yourself, Okay, 181 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:45,279 are we without assets or imminent meaningful cap space if you take on Dame or 182 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:50,279 Tyrese Maxie, are we better than we are right now? With disgruntled, 183 00:11:50,279 --> 00:11:52,720 hardened Tyrese Maxie in the one first round pick we could trade around Joel Embiide. 184 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,200 I don't know. I think there's a chance that the Lillard Embiid dynamic 185 00:11:58,799 --> 00:12:03,720 is better then the Harden and bid dynamic, especially in the playoffs. I 186 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:09,200 think James Harden's passing is really important here. Joellabi does not need a creative 187 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,039 passer. Him and Damian Lillard will be fine. The rest of the team 188 00:12:11,039 --> 00:12:13,879 though, when you look at some of the supporting casts around them. If 189 00:12:13,879 --> 00:12:18,840 you're losing tires Maxie and his drives and what the chaos he's gonna create. 190 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,399 He's not an exceptional passer. Put it's someone who could just offer and react 191 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,039 to the defense that's reacting to him. Damian Lillarcus still do that. But 192 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,919 if you're losing both James Harden and Tyris maxically get Damian Lillard. I don't 193 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,480 think you're this better team, especially when you in my mind, you're not 194 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:37,039 gonna have enough at F assets left over to turn around and make all these 195 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,639 other accessory moves or let alone a meat and potatoes type of move. And 196 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:48,120 I don't know what the Sixers vision here is. People talk about cap space. 197 00:12:48,399 --> 00:12:52,120 I've seen it floating around that the Sixers could get two MAX slots thrown 198 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:56,639 carved out. No, not two real max slots for next summer, which 199 00:12:56,639 --> 00:13:01,279 are as of right now, the max the low is max slot for next 200 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:05,120 summer is projected to be thirty five point five million dollars. Yes, they 201 00:13:05,159 --> 00:13:09,799 can get to that. They can get to almost seventy million in cap space. 202 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,000 That's still not both those maxes and you're also not giving out Those are 203 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,320 maxes reserved for restricted free agents essentially, who are not going to leave their 204 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,240 teams. If you're maxing out and restricted free agent who's worthwhile that you want, 205 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:24,720 the other team is going to match them. Most of those players, 206 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:26,919 I mean, look at you know they didn't even read restricted free ac they're 207 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:31,519 signing extensions. So you're not going to have dual max loots. But you 208 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,279 can get to sixty plus million. Sixty five plus million. I had the 209 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:37,159 mat in cap space maybe that even goes up a little bit if the salary 210 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,480 cap projections increase for next summer specifically, perhaps they agree to raise it a 211 00:13:41,519 --> 00:13:43,679 little bit more in anticipation of the new TV deal a year or two down 212 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,919 the line from that, what is cap space getting you? Now, it's 213 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:50,519 getting you a Fred van Fleet type of player. And I've seen og Ana 214 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,120 Noby mentioned as the name they could go after. That is not the guy 215 00:13:54,279 --> 00:13:58,440 O g Na. Nooby's a really good player. I think I've probably downplayed 216 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,080 his value on this podcast a couple times. I don't think he's not bad. 217 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,840 I just don't think he's a star. He's a really good player. 218 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,480 You don't plan your entire future around him. And so I'm starting to think 219 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,080 that the Sixers have less leverage here when all is said and done. And 220 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,559 I also understand by the way where Harden is coming from. If the reporting 221 00:14:13,639 --> 00:14:16,840 is true that he wanted you know that, if Mori only wanted him to 222 00:14:16,879 --> 00:14:20,639 sign a one plus one, that's a even if that's full max money, 223 00:14:20,679 --> 00:14:24,720 that's a tall order. I also get the Sixers perspective. Harden's apparently disenchanted 224 00:14:24,759 --> 00:14:28,639 because they didn't offer him a multi year max deal. Guaranteed money. So 225 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:31,919 if we're talking three or four years, his three year max three years and 226 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,720 one hundred and fifty about his four year max would have been four years and 227 00:14:35,759 --> 00:14:39,759 two hundred and four point seven million. It's a lot of money to commit 228 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:43,720 to James Harden at this stage of his career. So I understand the both 229 00:14:43,759 --> 00:14:46,000 sides of it from that, but I also get if you're hard and why 230 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,960 you wouldn't want to sign a one plus one and why you're pissed off now. 231 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:50,679 I don't know if opting in was necessarily the best decision for you, 232 00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:54,320 because you kind of lost control of this season. I don't know how it 233 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,039 ends, but it feels like it's going to end very poorly and overall. 234 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,480 While I do think the Sixers have less leverage, I think Daryl Morey has 235 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:07,159 an iron stomach for this shit, and it would not surprise me if James 236 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,600 Harden is still on the Sixers heading into the next season. You can tell 237 00:15:09,639 --> 00:15:11,639 me he shows up out of shape. You can tell me he doesn't show 238 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:13,960 up at all. You tell me he shows up and plays his ass off 239 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,120 because he's trying to attract I don't know, trying to prove a point, 240 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,519 or maybe he's trying to attract other suitors. I don't know if there's a 241 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:22,720 no brainer team out there, get in the YouTube comments if you made it 242 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,320 this far, or a discord, what's a team that you can see coming 243 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,600 out of nowhere, not Miami, even not the Clippers and trying to make 244 00:15:30,639 --> 00:15:33,799 an offer for James Harden. This is going to get very ugly, folks. 245 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,879 I think that we're going to go. My guests would be now that 246 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,039 he's on the Sixers heading into training camp, because Darryl Moorey is not going 247 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,399 to accept bottom dollar for him, and even some of the offers that have 248 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,200 been floated that the asking price that he wanted for Tobias Harris makes you think, 249 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,399 well, what is he going to ask for with James Harden? And 250 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,159 so even if the Clippers offer everything they can, I don't think that they're 251 00:15:54,159 --> 00:15:56,720 going to move him, and they do have to wait, Well he could 252 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,039 just leave next summer. You'll get the caps based endscape and like the good 253 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,679 Sier teams still aren't slated to have all this cap room, and many of 254 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:07,639 them might not want James Harden, depending on where they are in their development 255 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,840 or players already in place looking at New York with Jalen Brunson, they don't 256 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:12,679 They're not gonna have max base and he's not gonna go back to Brooklyn or 257 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,440 something. If they somehow get off Ben Simmons, this is going to get 258 00:16:15,519 --> 00:16:18,879 ugly. I'm not necessarily sure how it ends. But while I don't read 259 00:16:18,919 --> 00:16:22,120 too much into this reporting like the trade sweepstakes are not done, the Sixers 260 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,559 are not actually shut down talks, this does lead me to believe, though, 261 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:27,639 when we really just step back and kind of look at this, now 262 00:16:27,639 --> 00:16:32,320 that things have paused, James Harden's gonna be on the Sixers to start the 263 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:36,320 season. This is going to get very ugly, and we should probably brace 264 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:40,799 ourselves for just like I don't even know what like we need to brace ourselves 265 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,279 through anything just feels on the table. But maybe someone does come in and 266 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:45,440 give up, they have a slow start to the season and give up a 267 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,720 ton for James Harden. Maybe he somehow finishes the season in Philly and then 268 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:52,360 we're like we're doing kind of all this all over again next summer. If 269 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,879 he's trying to facilitate a sign and trade somewhere else. I don't know how 270 00:16:55,919 --> 00:16:59,480 this ends, but I will predict how it continues. And that's with the 271 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:03,960 Beligus. That's that that we kind of yet to see at this point until 272 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,880 next time. And has always shout out to Frank heel Tina and remember to subscribe