James Harden Calls Out Daryl Morey
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00:03 Now, when you start talking about the hard situation,
00:06 you figured something was going down, right?
00:08 Because Saturday, the announcer comes out,
00:11 Don Moore basically says, "We're not gonna trade him,
00:14 "and he's coming to trading camp."
00:16 So now I'm just waiting for him,
00:18 'cause I know at some point,
00:20 the beard is gonna say something.
00:22 He don't need no damn agents,
00:24 or no fake electors, or Twitter, or X,
00:27 or whatever the hell you call it.
00:29 He just came out and said it.
00:31 Don Moore is a liar.
00:32 And the thing is, is we all know it,
00:35 because there's no way that when James Harden
00:38 took that deal in '23, '24 for less money,
00:41 to turn around and give P.J. Tucker
00:43 that there was not something tied into the back of it,
00:47 verbally, in order to pay James Harden.
00:51 So what did he do?
00:52 He did his part.
00:53 Don Moore says, "Mm, not so much.
00:56 "I don't think so."
00:57 So now we get into this standoff,
01:00 and this is gonna be really intriguing, folks.
01:03 And I think when we watch all of this,
01:05 there are other people you gotta watch here,
01:08 besides Darrell Moore, and obviously James Harden.
01:11 You gotta look at Nick Nurse.
01:12 Him looking going, "What the hell
01:13 "did I just get myself into?
01:15 "I thought I'm gonna have this guy back with him.
01:17 "B, we go right in, try to go into championship."
01:19 You look at Tobias Harris,
01:21 who you know for real doesn't want
01:22 any part of Philadelphia.
01:24 He wants to get out, and he's in his contract here.
01:27 And then there is the MVP, Joel Embiid,
01:31 who is, you think, if they start to tear this down,
01:36 does Joel Embiid sit there and say,
01:38 "All right, I'll go through a rebuilding process,"
01:40 or does he go to Darrell Moore and say,
01:42 "Forget about all these other superstars,
01:45 "the Dames, the Hardens, maybe the Giannis if he's unhappy,
01:49 "the Lukas of Dallas Fluffs.
01:51 "I wanna be the one that's traded and traded next."
01:55 A lot to watch in the city of brotherly love.
01:59 - All right, well, let's sort this out.
02:01 First of all, he's not in a position right now
02:05 to be the next guy to one out.
02:08 He's still got work to do for Philadelphia
02:12 in terms of Embiid.
02:14 He's gotta worry about what's in front of him,
02:17 which is the season.
02:19 And what we both know is that Harden's not showing up
02:22 for any training camp.
02:23 All right, this guy, he opted in at 36 and a half million.
02:28 And by opting in,
02:31 Maury, you know they agreed that he would trade him.
02:35 And then he wasn't able to get what he wanted in a trade.
02:38 So now he's like, "No, he's coming to camp,"
02:40 which you know isn't happening.
02:43 So I don't care about Embiid at all
02:46 'cause he doesn't have any say in this.
02:48 I know they think they do, but it doesn't matter.
02:51 He's already begged him to stay
02:54 and he still doesn't wanna play there.
02:57 Harden wants out, Harden's gonna get out.
03:01 One way or the other, I don't see him wearing that jersey.
03:04 You cannot, now Carver High and I have this theory,
03:08 as you know, on this show.
03:09 Once you come out and put someone in the ground
03:13 and six feet under and you put the dirt on top of them,
03:17 you gotta plant the grass
03:19 and let it grow over the dead body.
03:22 You can't a day later or a week later or a month later
03:26 show up and hugs and kisses, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
03:29 I hate people like that.
03:31 If you hate his guts and you're like,
03:33 "I'm never playing for him over my dead body,"
03:37 then stick to it and never show up
03:39 and it'll get done, the deal, no?
03:41 - And I agree, I think that's what he did.
03:44 He came out and that's the thing
03:46 that I think is interesting about Harden.
03:48 He didn't go through an agent.
03:50 This is on video.
03:52 And it's not like he's coming out today and said,
03:54 "No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:56 I was taking out, that wasn't my words.
03:59 I didn't mean it like that."
04:00 - He meant it.
04:01 - He meant it and he fired it.
04:03 He waited 24 to 36 hours
04:06 from filling out his announcement for him to make his.
04:09 He is done with the 76ers
04:11 and here's the thing with the 76ers.
04:13 What are you gonna do now?
04:15 Like, you gotta go and get what you can get.
04:18 At this point, because this guy is sitting out.
04:21 He's gonna sit out.
04:22 And the longer you sit this guy out,
04:25 the less value he has.
04:27 He's on, and listen, I get what Morrie was trying to do,
04:31 which was he's in the last year of his contract.
04:34 He's gotta honor his commitment.
04:36 Otherwise he's gonna screw over his value
04:39 in the free agent market.
04:41 You think that this guy made $340 million.
04:43 You think he gives a damn about any of this right now?
04:45 He wants out.
04:47 It's done.
04:48 So yes, he buried it.
04:50 He put the dirt on it.
04:52 He's gonna water that lawn every couple of days.
04:55 If you watch, every couple of days,
04:57 he's gonna say something else.
04:58 And he'll do some videos or I'll show him hanging out.
05:02 Listen, James Harden has played his last game
05:06 in Philadelphia.
05:07 The question is, does he go to the Clippers
05:10 like it's been reported on?
05:11 And how soon does it happen?
05:14 It should happen fast.
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