Kelly Iko: I know that Nick Nurse was in Houston maybe a week and a half ago and met with Danuel House and James Harden. So the Head Coach Nick Nurse had to hop on a plane, to travel to Houston to speak to Harden or even convince him to stay with Philly. I would think Morey would asked him to come back to Philly to visit the coach? Wow! He is showing no respect to Philly….Guys he is coming to Houston!
It's even worse, they forced him to bring a cheese steak and then they said they weren't hungry, they had just eaten at the Kemah Boardwalk.
https://www.chron.com/sports/rocket...rOunt5WqcgTLFmsxr2ajYqFryMgPMYzXE_v8TaRsdY36o James Harden has declined according to Data and Doc Rivers. DD
No to Kyrie, Zion, or Harden Let's get players who are passionate about being in the NBA and want their team to be great.
I really hope they don't pass up the BPA because they are getting Harden. That would be a very shortsighted move.
No doubt. It's one thing to pick a guy that's not mocked as high because you really believe in his upside but it's another thing (stupidity) to change your pick because of Harden
At this point I don't believe anything I see on Twitter and won't until I see Silver call the name on draft night. But I want to believe their desire is to keep the pick and look at guys with the highest upside in Amen and Whitmore. Still crossing my fingers that Harden re-signs with Philly, though, and the front office isn't so stupid that they'd base the No. 4 pick on whether Harden comes here or not.
Full excerpt: On coaching James: "It was challenging, more because we were fighting two things—and not like visually fighting—it was James is so good at playing one way, and the way I believe you have to play to win, in some ways, is different. Because it's a lot of giving up the ball, moving the ball, coming back to the ball. I would have loved to have him younger, when that was easier for him because giving up the ball and getting back the ball is hard. It's physical, it's exhausting. So, it would have been interesting if I would have had him younger where he could have done that more. Coming off of dribble handoffs, going down the hill. He didn't finish as well as he finished [in Houston] because he's older, and that happens. So, yeah, at times, to get him to move it and get him to play the way I needed him to play—I thought the first half of the year, we were the best team in the game. I thought James was playing perfect basketball. He was the point guard of the team. He was still scoring, but he was doing more playmaking and scoring. Then in the second half, he started scoring more, trying to score more, and I thought we got stagnant at times. I thought we changed." (1:01:13) On what he feels goes wrong with James when the playoffs come around: "What makes James great is that he's one of the best individual players to ever play the game," Rivers said. "Ball-handling, handles the ball, dribbles the ball, attacks. But that also allows you to attack—you know where he's at, and you know where the ball is at. So, in the playoffs, when teams are game-planning against you each game, double-teaming, taking the ball out of your hand, making it harder, it's easier to do that to James compared to ... How do you take Steph [Curry] out of the game?" My take is that Harden wanted Doc gone because he thought Philly would hire MDA whom he really wanted as coach. When they hired Nurse, he bailed out on Philly because Nurse won't let him run things like MDA and Morey did in Houston. If Houston is dumb enough to sign him, he's going to do the same thing to Udoka. He bailed on the Rockets then bailed on Brooklyn and now he appears to be bailing on Philly. Hard pass.
Harden to the Lakers per Big Perk Big Perk’s Big List of off-season predictions 5. Draymond to Suns 4. Harden to Lakers 3. Lopez re-signs with Bucks 2. FVV to Sixers 1. Beal to Celtics
Doc: "James, can you try to move sometimes when you don't have the ball?" James: "A future with us together is just not possible."
