WEBVTT - EMERGENCY POD: James Harden Officially Makes It Uncomfortable | 'Clap Your Hands' 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.120 Clop, clop, clap, Clap your hands and stop your feet. 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:10.360 You're listening. You're listening to the hosted by Elliott Parks 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.000 and Kyle new Beeck here. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:14.720 What's going on? Everybody? 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.000 Welcome to another edition of the Clap Your Hands Podcast. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.560 Brought to you by Odyssey Sports. Brought to you by 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.799 Sports Radio ninety four w I P and Man. Brought 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.040 to you by really the only person not on vacation 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.440 right now. We got Kyle's off in Australia, James Harden's 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.600 in China, the hardest working man in the bitch, Jack 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.800 Fritz stepping in for an emergency. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:37.159 Clap your hands, what's up? 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:37.520 Buddy? 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.120 Tell you what they never ceased to h to amaze me. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.760 The Philadelphia seventy six Ers. I mean, what a what 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.760 a well run franchise you have there, buddy. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:47.720 Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean, he's gonna take 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:48.680 a Phillies lap. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:50.479 No, gonna no. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.400 Because honestly, like honestly, all jokes aside, like this sucks, man, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.800 Like yeah, it just it just sucks where we're at 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.720 with this franchise. And because like obviously we want the 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.720 Sixers to win, like we love the Sixers, like I 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.119 watch every game. Whatever. I know, I'm the Phillies guy 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.400 or whatever, but like I care a lot about the Sixers, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.680 and it just feels like right now, this whole thing 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:15.520 is just a Runner List ship and and now it's 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.240 just like I've lost confidence in so much of this 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.760 franchise to where it's like I just I just wanted 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.120 to be over, Like like I just like move on 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.000 from the process, start over, and like the thing that 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.480 I keep coming back to Elliott and I felt this 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.600 way for a little bit is they just don't feel 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.240 like the Philadelphia seventy six Ers, Like they just feel 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.640 like the Sixers, you know what I mean. And that's 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.440 a big difference I think with them in the city 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:38.679 versus some of the other teams. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.720 So there's a lot to get into. Obviously there was 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.039 we'll get into all of it. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.520 There was a report yesterday, which is the jumping off point, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.119 would imagine for this hard and comment. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.240 The Sixers come out yesterday. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.600 I should say this, I say the Sixers, but technically 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.040 it was a report from ESPN that the Sixers have 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.440 taken Harden off the trade table. I can only Madge, 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:02.280 don't even call Yeah, you don't even call exactly. So yeah, 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.680 and then I wake up this morning, all excited for 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.760 joint practice, all excited for my messy game on Tuesday, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.080 and James Harden to clip in China of him basically 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.240 or not basically, straight up saying Darryl Moury is a liar. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.160 I will never play for an organization that. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:17.720 He's a part of. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.040 And then he flips it, brings it back, Darryl Moury 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.080 is a liar and I will never be part of 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.720 an organization that he is a part of. So lot 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.920 to unpack there, but I will start with where you started, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.799 and it's how I feel this morning, to be completely honest. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.880 So I know you're not on the pod all the time, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.240 but we do a lot of WP together, and you 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.560 know that all off season I have defended this team. Well, 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.360 everyone's been ripping them. I've been saying, look, they've accomplished 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.040 a lot. They get to the second round all the time. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.600 That's not something completely gloss over Juell and be just 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.880 one MVP. James Harden's much better and I won't give him 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.560 credit for I really have defended this team. This was 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.680 the first point for me where it felt like a 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.520 breaking point. A breaking point of like grow up, Like 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.840 is this seriously what they're doing again? Like there was 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.440 legitimate things to be excited about last season that could 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.240 be building points. Maxi took a big step hearted indeed, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.560 and Maxi had their first kind of true postseason run. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.960 They lost I think a good series to the Celtics, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.600 and it's just all blown up. In all off season, 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.800 I've had this feeling of, look, I know Harden wants 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.359 to leave, but he's friends with Joel, He's at the 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.560 White Party with Michael Rubin, like all these things. And 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.120 then you see this video and I'm just reminded of 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.280 like maybe everybody else is just correct, Like all this 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.040 defending of the Sixers, we have all these dumb leaks 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.400 from Darryl Mory. First of all, why are you leaking 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.560 you're no longer trading him? Like that's childish, Like what 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.080 are we doing here? It doesn't matter. He's not really 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.600 off the trade block. So all you're doing is poking 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.520 James Harden. That's all you're doing by leaking that. All 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.160 you're basically saying is James, I'm not trading you, and 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.640 you're getting him upset. And then this is the result 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:52.840 of that James Harden comes out and calls him a liar, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.680 and it's embarrassment, Like it is a straight up embarrassment 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.480 for the Sixers. And if their whole plan is to 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.200 sign for agent's next offseason, guess what good luck with that, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.040 because you guys look like the laughing sock of the NBA. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.760 James Harden is calling your GM, the GM that you're 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.280 paying ten million dollars a year or two to clean 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.240 all this up. To be the guy that's supposed to 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.720 be one of the best in the NBA, to be 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.400 the guy that has a good relationship with James Harden. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.800 He's being called a liar in front of everybody. What's 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.200 Joelle thinking right now? If you're Joelle Embiid, what are 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.600 you thinking as you're seeing the best player you've ever 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.040 had play with? You call your GM a liar? If 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.080 you're Joel or if you're Tyrese Maxi. The Sixers have 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.919 reportedly said, look, we're gonna take care of you next offseason. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.039 That's exactly what just happened with James Harden. I don't 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.640 know what Tyree's and James Harden relationship is like, but 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.680 I'll tell you this. If they have a good relationship. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.240 This is terrible because now Max is gonna sit. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.840 There and go, why should I wait a full year? 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.400 You just said that to James Harden, it seems at 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.120 least and now he's not getting paid. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.880 You said to James Harden in a basically a joint. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.039 Statement the day of the first day of free agency 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.400 that we're going to try to change trade James Harden. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.680 Now you're saying you're not gonna trade him. So what's 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.640 really happening here? Like, it's embarrassing. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.120 All these things are true, and I completely understand every 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.600 Sixers fan that's called me a fool first for defending 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.400 the team, but that aside to what you said, Jack, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.520 I think is so true. At the end of the day, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.880 we all want the Sixers to be good. This is 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.880 not like none of us benefit from anything that's happening 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.200 right now, not the fans, not James Harden, not Daryl Morey. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.160 And it's embarrassing to wake up to this. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.240 Well, and it just thinks because like, you know, you're 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.920 seeing two grown men like kind of having this this 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.160 falling out right in front of us, and you know, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.039 I know everyone's mad at James Harden and It's okay 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.040 to be mad at James Harden, but at the same time, like, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.640 look at everything that Darryl Moray is kind of done 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.400 to him in the last you know, year, I mean 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.520 year and a half whatever, like when he when he 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.760 signed on Tracked and he left fifteen million dollars on 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.960 the table or whatever, which they were obsessed with putting 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.160 out that he did he left money on the table 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.120 ESPR campaign ever, but that was obviously designed because it 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.000 felt like this was gonna It was like a handshake agreement, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.479 and I was like a wink wink, like you do 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.240 this now and I'll take care of your next offseason. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.560 James Harden, for as bad as he as annoying as 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.600 he was in the playoffs, even though he did has 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.120 some great games, but like he was annoying in game six, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.200 he averaged twenty and ten and got back to an 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.280 all star kind of level of play, and I think 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.719 obviously he's like, Okay, well, now this like Darryl Moury's 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.240 gonna maxx me out, like this is what I do. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.800 Like it's fine, And then Darryl Moray doesn't. He basically 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.240 cuts off all communication with James Harden. The guy that 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.280 put him on the map, by the way, which like 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.200 if you're James Harden, you're like, hold on, who the 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.039 hell's Daryl Moury, Like I made Daryl Moury, Like I 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.680 turned Daryl Moray into this like ten million dollars a 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.880 year GM. It wasn't the other way around. All he 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.039 did was go get an undervalued asset in the thunder 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.760 and let me cook essentially for ten years. Like that's 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.000 already did. It's all I really did. And then what 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.840 happened this offseason, which is the whole Yeah, everyone's like, well, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.120 James Harden opted in. He opted in because I want 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.200 to get traded. Yeah, like what do we like? It's 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.800 I just think that we can be at it. Everyone 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:05.040 like Maury has screwed this up colossally and James Harden 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.560 is a huge baby And the only people that are 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.800 losing right now are are us are the people that 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:13.800 care and the people that they wanted to see the 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.520 can go play well like they are such a and 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:18.960 and and it goes all the way up to the 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.400 top two. I mean, I mean John, I mean where 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.520 is he? I mean, now, now everything's kind of crumbling 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.440 here and it doesn't like this guy's doing like thank you, 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:32.560 Josh Harris things and Washington and the fantasy. Oh my gosh, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.120 it's just they are such I just I just want 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.920 them to go away, Like I just the vibes in 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.520 the city are so good. And the fact that we 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.560 have to spend a lot of time today discussing this 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.480 just they're just the They're just the worst. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.119 What you said about them going away. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.880 This is something I have felt all off season at 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.720 every stupid tweet they put out, every time Joel puts 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.800 out a tweet, every time Darryl Mory puts out all the. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.000 Crumble cookies, every bias Harris. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.880 Now, I'll tell you this, So recording this at nine 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.920 fifteen in the morning, there is a soccer game at 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.480 three o'clock, So get ready for a Joel tweet something 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.840 like Manchester United's playing. It's gonna put like United or 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.080 whatever like there we will get a Joel tweet today. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.120 I would be shocked if we. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.920 Don't, right, But that's that's what like, that's what's been 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.400 freshening for me is I have again defended the team, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.480 and I believe rightfully, So I still believe everything I've said. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.880 But like this is where I can't understand why fans like, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.560 I've never seen the city this mad at the at 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.080 the Sixers, like you talk to fans every single day 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.840 your show two to six, every day ninety four to 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.360 VIP everyone tuned in Fritz at six as well, But 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.640 you talk to fans all day like right wrong, whatever 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.160 fans feel, how they feel, and right now, stuff like 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.680 this is not helping them get back in the good 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.480 graces of the city. Like, I don't know what the 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.640 roster is going to look like night one. I don't 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.480 know what you know, if James's gonna be there, frankly, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.560 if Joel is gonna be there. But it would not 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.800 surprise me if this team catches some booze at their introduction, 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.319 like of the player introduction the night off, like. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:04.160 It just will give us what about standing ovation that 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:09.480 started Stanford and James. Well, and here's my problem is obviously, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.840 everything going on right now, I think it's naive to 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.960 think that this is just gonna go away and be fine. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.559 Well, what I used to think, which is which sucks 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.280 the most. I used to think that James was gonna 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.880 report to camp, He's friends with Joelle, everything will all 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.800 be good. Clearly, not like everyone that made the fat 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.880 suit jokes and all the like, this is what he does, Like, yeah, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.720 this is step one of that. Like this is straight 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.959 up step one of him causing a massive scene whenever 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:34.920 they start training up. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.360 Yeah, it's just it's the bigger problem to me is 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.920 now where do they go from here? Like I think 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.319 this feels like it's turning towards they get James Harden 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.960 out of here. He entered in Los Angeles. You get 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.240 I don't know, he probably not probably want to get 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:50.760 Terrence Mann at this point, like you. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.440 Get care like I like Terrence Man, but like I'm 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.920 not gonna be like, good job, Darryl. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.360 He did it more season. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.800 If they get Terrence Man, like yeah, it's not gonna 0:09:58.840 --> 0:09:59.640 be a good trad. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.280 But you do the trade. The Clippers make it all 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.760 happy and make this whole thing go away. The problem 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.679 for me now is if their whole plan is we 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.680 need to have as much gas base as possible heading 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.280 in the next summer. This these James Harden comments calling 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.880 Darryl Moray a liar. We know NBA play like I 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.280 know we view James Harden as most of the city 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.040 of US James Harden as a clown. He's still a 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.920 top seventy my player of all time that I think 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.920 that's very pretty He's well respected in the league. And 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.040 I don't and these comments about Darryl Mory, like what 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:31.880 players are gonna want to sign up for that? Like 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.800 they have to do a big turnaround here at least 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.079 pr wise of trying to get or just move on 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.040 from Darryl Morriy, because I don't like this is the NBA, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:43.840 more than any of the sport, is about the players. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.280 It's a player league, like player powerment. They move around whatever, 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.400 when they want to go, they kind of go. If 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.880 that's the case, who's signing up to come play for 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.240 a guy who was just called by one of the 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.880 best players of all time a liar? Like that's just 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.800 that's not a good spot to be in. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.440 And I'll be interested to see if, like if the 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.400 Sixers respond today, like what their responding. I mean, I 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.200 imagine it's gonna be some version of like we never 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.680 promised this to hard and blah blah blah. But let's 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.120 kind of go through the timeline really quickly to say 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:16.040 what we believe happened so last offseason, Like do you 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.520 think the Sixers promised him money. Because while we can 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.480 sit here and go you know, James Harden is a 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.200 bit of a loose cannon. He's forced his way out 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.400 of two teams. This is nothing new for him. Like 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.160 he turned down the extension with the Nets, he forced 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.000 his way to the Sixers. It was either the Yeah, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.560 forced his way to the Sixers from the nets, and 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.560 then he takes less money. Everyone said it, like whether 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.800 I thought it was silly at the time, everyone made 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.840 it clear he took less money. So if you look 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.360 like pretty consistently his actions have been bad of somebody 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.000 that is hearing through back channels, I am going to 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.080 get paid by the Sixers. Why do you force your 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.480 way to the Sixers if you don't think Morey's gonna 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.440 pay you. Why do you force your Why do you 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.800 turn down extension from the nets if you don't think 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.560 you have that money coming from the Sixers. Now the 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.600 weird point with this is, and this is something I'm 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.520 sure that Sixers will point to. Why then in December 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.880 does James Harden start the whole Houston really wants me 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.439 to think. So my question for you would be is, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.400 like we kind of think through this, do you think 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.120 Darryl promised him money, and if he did, why did 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.440 James Harden start to leak rumors that. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:17.720 He was going to go to the Rockets. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:22.320 Well, I think the promised money thing is interesting, but 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.719 I also think that, you know, I could see him 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.480 taking advantage of James Harden not having an agent and 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.000 and trying to use his relationship as like, you know, 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:32.640 this is before he had an agent, right. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.240 Right now he has an agent. Yeah, at the time. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.160 Now he has an agent. So I think I don't 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.040 Obviously I don't know if they promised him, but I 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.800 do think that there was a wink wink thing there. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.120 I thought that the Houston thing, I mean maybe he 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.200 just started getting the scents in the middle of the 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.680 season like we're probably not going to pay you pal, 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.920 and then he tried to, you know, create some kind 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.640 of market out there. And again a bad sign for 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.920 Harden that they signed Fred Van Vliet to one hundred 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.920 and I mean, that's just not a good sign. So 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.120 I think this whole thing has been posturing to try 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.080 to get the Sixers to balk and pay, and I 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:07.520 just don't think he wanted to do it. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.679 And like, on one hand, on one hand, I'm. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.560 Happy that Darryl is at least seeing the lights, you know, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.520 and being like, Okay, I can't pay this, Like then 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.320 he's gonna sink my franchise. Like for a guy that 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.280 essentially had made his career operating for James Harden a 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.839 couple of times, like to be able to be like, ah, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:26.920 probably not the smart thing to do for this franchise. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.760 I think that's good. The only issue is what it creates, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.600 image wise for Daryl Moury and what makes the Sixers 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.000 look like how they're going to disrespect one of the 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:42.000 best players, Like, I just that's a Again, it's almost 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.079 like you have to move on from Maury to rebuild 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.800 your image, because I just I would be very surprised 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.480 if an NBA player is like signing up. But then 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.400 you start thinking about, okay, well, how does it be, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.760 Like it's just yeah, so many aspects of this thing, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.760 and it keeps just pointing back to the Moray thing. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.320 So I'll start by saying, like, I do believe that 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.320 James was promised some type of money. I just and 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.240 so all right, I mean in Eagles reference in here 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.480 real question when the Eagles drafted Jalen Hurts right. They 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.160 swore up and down, they said nothing to do with Carson. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.600 They called Jalen a backup. They said he'll never take 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.040 the job. You're foolish to think he'll ever take the job. Like, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.280 we'll never know the honest to God truth. Did they 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.560 draft Jalen and then things fell apart and they lucked 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.040 into him, or did they draft him thinking Carson was 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.320 going to fall apart? Some things in sports that are 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.280 really important. We just will never know the honest of 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.120 God truth with this right here, I don't think we'll 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.680 ever know the honest to God truth of what Daryl 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.920 said to James Harden unless he was dumb enough to 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.800 put it in a text message or an email. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.240 And James Harden now has this over his head. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.640 Now, if Daryl knew that he had that, you would 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.160 think he would probably act accordingly regardless. My point is this, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.320 we might never know what was actually said and what 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.680 the true intentions of what was said. But everyone is 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.680 lying for themselves, and they don't think James Harden is 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.040 acting like someone who has promised a ton of money 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.600 and is now having that money take away, like maybe 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.520 Darryl mismanagement where he did it. Let's say he said 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.080 something like, hey, you know, look, I want to sign PJ. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.800 Tucker and Daniel House. We can't do it. Take a 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.120 little bet, a little bit less. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:17.400 Now. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.280 Next year, the new CBA will be in effect, and 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:20.800 you know, we'll really be able to take care of 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.160 you then. And that's not a promise, it's not a 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.920 written thing. But let's be honest, like everyone in each 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.480 of their own walks of life, let's pretend your boss 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.680 says to you, hey, man, can't give you a raise 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.600 right now, but I'll tell you what next year, Like 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.320 I got you, Like you know I can't, but I 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.560 got you. And then he did, Like how would you 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.880 react to that? How would you feel if a year 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.440 later you're not getting that money? So did James Hart. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.080 First of all, he had a better year last year 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.080 than he did the year before, so that is worth 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:46.840 taking considerable. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.280 I mean, he'd reestablished himself last year. I felt like, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.000 you know, and I think heading into the playoffs, I 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.280 think people are like, all right, Like I think that's 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.360 why the reaction so harsh right now, Eliott, is because 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.200 I think people bought in again, and I think that 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.800 James Harden gave us a reasonablief again because he left 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.320 the league assists he was like being a good kind 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.840 of sidekick to Jowell and BEIID I mean like, and 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.600 I think that's what being missed here. Like we we 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.000 we've all been in this situation. Like you all talk 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.920 to bosses that are like, yeah, listen right now, I 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.600 understand whatever. Just just wait it out. That's that's a 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.280 that's a wink. It doesn't if it doesn't happen in 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.720 your life, you're mad too. Yeah, you're one hundred percent 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:25.520 it now. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:26.160 It works. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.600 The other thing people will say, and what we should 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.640 get into is well, then why do you opt in? 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:31.200 Right? 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.520 Like there's a lot of you know, very popular tweets 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.840 on Twitter right now, everyone getting those likes and retweets. 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.680 I'm not mad at it. Go get them where. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.680 It's like James Harden like, uh, you know, I don't 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.800 want to play for the Sixers. James Harden opted in 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.880 to play for the Sixers. But here's the deal, Like, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.200 if we want to be honest about this, when he 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.120 opted in, the statement that came out was saying the 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.960 Sixers are going to trade him. Like when he opted in, 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.320 everyone including me, all the fans celebrated. Why because it 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.800 was James Harden is not going to play for the Sixers. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:04.159 The overarching feeling was James Harden is gone. Now you 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.120 could say like they did try to trade him. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:07.600 They did. 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.399 They by all reports, they've talked to the Clippers. And 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.200 I don't blame Darryl Morey for asking for a ton, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.040 but ultimately James opted in with the expectation he would 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.560 not play for the Sixers. And so for Daryl to 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.719 release a statement or you know, maybe released, you know, 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.760 talk to ESPN and say that, like, of course I'd 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.240 be pissed if I was James Harden. James Harden was 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.119 told by the team, and it seems pretty clear, and 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.439 I'm pretty sure Maury has said this on the record, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.480 that they would work with him to try to find 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.879 a trade. That is not like, again, put yourself in 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.680