Oanother bombing could be brewing in the nba and will have again James Harden as protagonist. According to Adrian Wojnarowski, a journalist for ESPN, The point guard will seriously consider returning to the Rockets in free agency this July if he decides not to sign a new deal with the Sixers.. Your current two-year, $68.6 million contract with the Philadelphia franchise includes a player option for the 23-24 season allowing him to re-enter free agency this summer.
Apparently, in recent months, the player and people close to him have been openly considering the possibility of returning to Houston, where he left on January 13, 2021 to be traded to the Nets in an operation that involved four teams. in brooklyn, the experiment with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving did not work, in part because the three of them could hardly coincide. The chemistry wasn’t the best either.
On February 10, Harden returned to revolutionize the NBA by going to the Sixers. Everything pointed to Together with Joel Embiid, they will form a devastating couple, but for the moment the results have not been as expected either. Now, ‘La Barba’ could pack his bags again to return to some Rockets full of young people They are currently the third worst team in the League and the last in the Western Conference.
Now, that the Sixers are going through their best moment
The noise comes when the Sixers are going through their best moment of the season after adding seven consecutive victories. It is early to talk about Harden’s decision, since it will also depend on how the campaign ends. It is not the same to fall at the first exchange in the playoffs than to reach the last qualifying rounds, but it is significant that the player is thinking about a possible exit to Houston.
The pieces might fit together. According to ESPN sources, Harden maintains a close relationship with Houston both personally and professionally. And the Rockets will have the salary margin to recover their former star, who was MVP in 2018 with that jersey and led the team to a Western Conference final while he monopolized appearances at the All Star and NBA top scorer awards. It would be necessary to see, yes, how he would fit in with young talents like Jalen Green, Jabari Smith, Alperen Sengun, Kevin Porter Jr. and even the Spanish Usman Garuba.
