It’s been over two weeks since 10-time All-Star James Harden opted into his $35.6 million player option for next season, with the intent of finding a trade to pave his way off the 76ers. While he remains in Philadelphia for now, don’t expect that to be a sign that his intentions to play elsewhere next season have changed.
That’s because the relationship between Harden and team president Daryl Morey has been “fractured,” according to The Athletic‘s Shams Charania, who expects Harden to be moved eventually.
“It’s essentially severed. It’s essentially fractured throughout this process,” Charania said. “There’s no longer that valve of open-minded, open-ended trust that we’ve seen over the course of 692 games that Daryl Morey and James Harden have been together in Houston and in Philly.”
