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[Pompey] James Harden has expressed interest in playing a season in China.



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_

33 Comments

  1. ClaxOwnsEmFlop

    I predicted this. I would do the same thing I can’t blame him. Would u rather be treated like a god in China who are our future overlords anyway or a fatass bum who flops all the time in America? The choice is clear.

  2. NitroXYZ

    I’ve always thought about players doing this at the end of their careers. You’ve already got the money and your NBA legacy so why not go and be a mega superstar in another country. Heck, if the Basketball Hall of Fame includes international play, whats stopping someone borderline from taking their talents overseas and dominating that league to boost their resume with like 3 international league MVPs lol.

  3. MixonWitDaWrongCrowd

    Wait until he sees his contract there

  4. Viciouscauliflower21

    The harden/Morey war of attrition is going to be fun as hell

  5. ilikesiegetanks

    James Harden in China: From breaking ankles in the NBA to potentially breaking contract rules?

  6. BrokenManOfSamarkand

    The Beard going full China shill wasn’t in my cards for this off-season

  7. Mig1997

    China Harden might be the greatest player ever

  8. glen_ko_ko

    I’ve really done a 180 on Harden in the last few years. I couldn’t stand him and thought he was a foul baiter.

  9. commandrr

    You wanna get weird? Let’s get weird man

  10. He just wants money at this point. I think he just embraced the fact that he will not gonna win the championship and just want to enjoy his life at strip club

  11. Pizza_Squeegee

    Bros CCP social credit is off the charts this week.

  12. Woj: 4 years / 860 million yuan, the contract include a team option

  13. miklodefuego

    Can’t believe this isn’t the jerk sub

  14. AhhhhhSpaceeee

    He’s feelin the Asian Persuasion. Dude wants to be in the club with 6 girls around him.

  15. ProductIntrepid4675

    Elite tampering by the Shanghai Sharks

  16. jpaxlux

    Harden really said “time to learn Chinese buddy”

  17. NIN10DOXD

    Wait until he finds out that you can’t even eat bananas on Livestream let alone strip there.

  18. jaylkae66

    It feels inevitable at this point. He’s going to average 50ish ppg for a few years and motor scooter into the sunset.

  19. rattatatouille

    Age 40 Harden averaging 40 in China isn’t that farfetched.

  20. njb2017

    How would he be forbidden from joining another team…especially china? When has china given a shit about anything the US says? I’m guessing he could go to china, china pays him, but sixers would have to sue him for whatever he earns in china. Right? What power would NBA have over china to prevent the signing?

  21. Cul_what

    He’s actually gonna learn chinese holy shit buddy

  22. Sweatytubesock

    The strippers in Shanghai are off the charts.

  23. This is PR, nor journalism. Pompey is a joke.

  24. Giraffelack

    He just sold so many sneakers just by saying that. Well done grift

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