Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I forgot he took a team-friendly deal last year.

Can anyone post the relevant bit? I got halfway into the article before the paywall came up. Does it go into any depth about what Harden wants or how Morey mishandled things? Or is this just a tweet masquerading as an article.

As a Sixer fan all I can say is I knew they’d do this to us.

Keeping him as of now will push them over the luxury tax.

The 2 sides settled & details were not released. But the point is, he sat out with the very real possibility of not making any money.

Yesterday I was wondering if this was some kind of smokescreen - it just doesn’t make sense at face value. But even then I can’t figure out how this would potentially benefit Portland or the receiving team. Then today, more chatter about him sitting out, maybe its real, after all.