[Shams] Harden has hired an agent.
Philadelphia 76ers star James Harden – who can enter free agency in July – has hired former Adidas executive Troy Payne of Equity Basketball as his first full-time agent since 2017.
Details at @TheAthletic: https://t.co/cmFLW7rabt
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 14, 2023
by qmr55
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Not Rich Paul, I’ll take it
is this bad
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Should’ve just hired Embiid.
Hope he stays for another 2-3 years if he can maintain his health like this. Maybe structure his contract to be declining scale while putting Maxey on an increasing scale. Try to align everything to what you’d assume are Embiid’s prime years.
Yikes, we better hope the Sixers win it all this year. Harden might be leaving for a team that can offer him one last max deal. We have his bird rights, but don’t know how much that will help us.
Harden basically hired his friend. He’s constantly shouting him out on social media lol
It will all come down to how the season ends but I think he stays. The Houston links don’t make much sense to me, funnily enough I think the only chance he goes back to Houston is if we win this year, maybe then he considers just chilling for the final years of his career. He knows that team isn’t doing anything in the next couple years.
It honestly makes perfect sense for him to hire an agent and PR firm. He and Embiid are disrespected because nobody is out there leaking puff pieces on their behalf.
Its a wise decision regardless of occupation to have professional review and negotiate binding contracts. Shocking news, really.
honestly the only way he leaves for houston imo is IF he wins it all this year, which at that point it’s hard to complain about him wanting to take the final years of his career easy at home
He gone
I predict he chooses to sign a max deal elsewhere unless we win, if not, come very close. Someone said in another tweet that this agent of his liked something about the rumor that Harden wanted to return to Houston.
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Obviously that doesn’t say anything at all but still not a great sign.
Took less money to build a contender and they gave him tucker lol. I’d take the money and run too.
Should’ve just hired Elton Brand and he would’ve gave him 1 billion for 4 years
Save The Last Bag. It’s his last payday and I wish him well whatever he decides.
Told yall dumbasses he’s expecting a max contract, and not the type the Nets offered Kyrie either
As much as I didn’t want him to come here, I’m glad he did and ate my own words. That being said, idk if he wants to be here anymore, so many big moves made and here we sit….idk I hope he stays
Ok but who here would NOT hire an agent well versed in sports contract law when negotiating a deal for 10s of millions of dollars??
Agent P?
My uninformed guess is he isn’t signing an agent just to take ‘unders’ again. Not that I care about ownerships money but the back end could be rough.
Aside from that, as others have said, he also needs a bit of PR spin.
hes going to get the max… we have no choice but to give it to him. Roll the dice and pray it works out
Scary hours
Anyone else agree we shouldn’t give him a max? We’re not going to have any cap space on top of not having any draft capital. Would love someone to do a deep dive on this.
WHAT IN GODS NAME DOES THIS MEAN PROBABLY NOTHING 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️HOPE MAC MCCLUNG GETS SOME BURN TOMORROW
Give the man what he deserves, he’s earned it. The last few years of his contract will probably hurt but we just lived through 4 years of a Tobi max so I think we can handle it.