James Harden and the Nets didn’t work out as planned. He was brought to the Nets to compliment Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. But instead, he wasn’t happy and a trade happened at the last minute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Harden’s earliest Philadelphia debut is expected on Tuesday when the 76ers go against the Boston Celtics. He will now become teammates with Tyrese Maxey who thinks that it\u2019s surreal to work with someone who he grew up watching. Maxey said that \u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy, because he was one of the guys you played with on (NBA) 2K when you were a younger kid\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There will be changes in how the 76ers are going to approach the game. Sixers coach Doc Rivers told the team that practices are going to be more intense as they have a roster that\u2019s more compatible playing fast games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Maxey said that \u201cIt\u2019s going to be great\u201d. Harden will also play with Joel Embiid. For Maxey \u201cIt\u2019s two MVP-caliber players on top of what we have here already. I think one thing that\u2019s really going to help us is the chemistry and the brotherhood that we have here. It\u2019s easy to welcome someone in, no matter who it is, Paul, James, it\u2019s easy to welcome people in because of the community we have here already\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But just this weekend, Doc Rivers announced that they are still trying to figure out how Harden and Paul Millsap are going to debut. The good news is that both teams are doing physicals. Rivers said that \u201cHim (Harden) and Paul were here today and I had good talks with both of them\u201d. Rivers added that \u201cWe\u2019re gonna form our plan and as far as health for both and then go from there\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Harden hasn\u2019t played several games for Brooklyn due to his hamstring injury. Rivers said that \u201cThe practice part probably won\u2019t matter as much as the health\u201d. He added that \u201cLet\u2019s say he\u2019s not ready to practice, but ready to play. We\u2019d play him anyway. When you do trades this time of the year, there\u2019s many times you put a guy on the floor with zero practice time. You just throw them out there and you\u2019re gonna have to figure out how it goes. The moment he\u2019s cleared to play whether we have practice in front of that or not, we\u2019re just gonna throw him out there\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As part of the new deal, Harden has not opted into his $47.3 million contract. This means that Harden\u2019s soonest chance to opt-in is by the end of this season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, it doesn\u2019t mean that Harden isn\u2019t committed to Philadelphia. It isn\u2019t a secret that Harden wanted to be part of the 76ers along with Embiid and Daryl Morey. Plus, the most lucrative path for Harden is to stay in a long-term partnership with the 76ers. According to <\/span>Derek Bodner<\/span><\/a>, Harden opting in and eventually and having an extension (traded players will have to wait at least six months before they can sign an extension) will potentially give him $274 million through the 2026-2027 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Harden and the Nets didn’t work out as planned. He was brought to the Nets to compliment Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. But instead, he wasn’t happy and a trade happened at the last minute.\u00a0 Harden’s earliest Philadelphia debut is expected on Tuesday when the 76ers go against the Boston Celtics. He will now … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1920x1080_James-Harden-Could-Make-His-Sixers-Debut-on-February-15-Against-Boston-Ron.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Unsure When Harden and Millsap will Make Debut<\/b><\/h2>\n
No Free Agency for Harden<\/b><\/h2>\n