Source: https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/james-harden-daryl-morey-sixers-trade-china-reaction-20230816.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_twitter_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo=
> Since arriving in China, Harden also expressed to fans a desire to play a season there.
> “Every time I come here, the love is just like … it’s crazy, you know what I mean?” he said. “So I feel like they deserve to actually see me come play here. … Love is always crazy here.”
> But playing in China might not be as easy as Chinese fans would like if Harden isn’t traded to another NBA team soon and remains adamant about not playing for the Sixers.
> According to the collective bargaining agreement, any player who “withholds playing services for more than 30 days after the start of the last season covered by his contract” could be deemed to have violated his contract and forbidden from entering free agency and signing with another professional team until the team he last played for “expressly agrees otherwise.”
by UnbiasedNBAFan_
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LMAO SUCH AN UNSERIOUS BUFFOON. GO PLAY FOR WINNIE THE POOH FUCKO.
r/NBAcirclejerk is boutta have a field day lmao
Keyword from CBA clause: “COULD.”
Any player with a good agent will lawyer their way out of any sort of CBA breach, especially one that brings the NBA tons of money like Harden.
Guarantee you he’ll sit out longer and be on an NBA team next year. Just like how Ben is getting all the money back that he lost from sitting out.
Harden also strikes me as a guy who would be petty enough to sit out and retire now just so any future speculation about how the remainder of his career would go could be theoretical.
“I also love the food. All of the food. So much food. Yummy yummy.”
Please oh god please go to China and Daryl, retain the rights and don’t trade him so he has to play against Jimmer Fredette or whoever the fuck
Nihao! Bye, James.
This dude sucks so hard fr lol
this would be next level shit. he’s gonna go to China for prob a lot of money (do Chinese teams give out money like Saudi soccer teams? they don’t right?) and in 12 calendar months we’ll mostly forget about him and he’ll fade off into the distance aside for when he’s meme’d.
this would be one of the most meme’d moments in the last how many years?
The darkest timeline
I fully believe him calling Morey a “liar” was all planned to boost his “brand” in China and sell more wine. Would be surprised if he told Morey he was going to do it beforehand.
Lol this is so funny. It’s too bad it’s Pompey so it’s probably not real
Let him go to some stupid Saudi Arabian club like other sports. Fuck him, and fuck the Celtics.
Lol
Ahhh!! I think I see his angle now.
So he’s currently in the process of recouping the money he feels he lost out on by taking less last year.
And he decided to get it started by dissing the most hated man in basketball China (maybe?)
for better or for worse, this is one of the most entertaining sports organizations around
He could technically retire too. I think he’d have to wait the year and the Sixers would have his rights.
Jason Williams did it in 2008 after signing with the Clippers in the summer, retired, tried to come back in February but had to have all 30 teams approve it (they didn’t), the Clippers held his rights that next offseason, they relinquished them, Knicks claimed him off waivers but didn’t sign him, he became a UFA, and he signed with the Magic. [Source](https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=4410164) Not sure how the CBA deals with that now though.
Would probably not go as smoothly as it did for JWill.
Wouldn’t do us any good, but would at least rid of us the headache.
harden stans gonna start reading mao’s biography so they can fit in with the culture
That would be the equivalent to retirement for him
They would give him a BAG
Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
Dont let the door hit you on the way out then