After the Sixers’ disappointing playoff exit, James Harden’s future with the team has been up in the air. Philadelphia is still trying to make it to the Eastern Conference finals in the Joel Embiid era, and it has to decide whether it believes Harden is a solution to that problem.
According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, the Sixers are motivated to bring Harden back, and they may be willing to go as far as necessary in negotiations to do so.
“The Sixers have focused largely their entire offseason on getting this deal done,” Windhorst said, “I think they’re willing to give him the pay increase up to at the max contract or near the max.”
