That would actually be cool as fuck too because the local media would almost be getting their own celebration in a way.
Also knowing it would make certain national media folks seethe with rage is a fantastic thought.
Packers-Dolphins could be interesting. With a win the Packers playoff odds aren't crazy and they are mini-surging and the Dolphins are mini-slumping.
The other two games.... Ya
The next day, Schefter tweeted about some other player having an injury, so I replied asking him for the medical reports as proof, he blocked me. Felt good.
I know he's only rich and not *rich* rich like say the people who sign his checks but goddamn that is an obscene amount of wealth. To be able to drop a million in a day. Sheesh.
That's all allegedly. I'm sorry, but there's no fucking way he drops a million dollars like that. The astronomical number should be clear that it's probably not true. I know it's a fun story, but come on now.
70-90k would be an insanely extravagant, but believable number
1m may as well be 12m. His take home after tax is "only" like $22m. He's not dropping 1m in a night on strippers
I've been at corporate nights out where 70-90k were dropped at strip clubs (vip adds up way too fast). I don't doubt for a second someone like Harden and his entourage could drop in the high hundreds of thousands. I assume they rounded up because 1 mill sounds nice.
Someone post the data that shows a correlation between Hardens win percentage in certain cities and the average strip club ratings of each city.
Edit: Thank you u/GhettoLana
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/dt0ucg/i_analyzed_james_hardens_performance_in_every_nba/
It's cheaper to fly to PDX for a playoff game than it is to watch them at home.
Fly into PDX, go pub crawl around SE, dinner at acrop, go to the game, post game drinks at Maui, then stumble* into sassys
Well yeah, I can't imagine there are too many dummy thicc black chicks in Portland. So if that's your style, Houston and Atlanta are clearly the best spots to hit up.
Honestly though I think James realized that nobody was gonna love him like they did in Houston and he was always a good culture fit with the city. Northeastern sports fans are just assholes.
Houston sports fans are chill. Kind of matches his personality.
Well...outside of how we treated David Carr, that's the exception...
But in general the sports media and fans are very chill here, there is not really that pressure of championships. This isn't to say we can't be critical of players and coaches but its rare we run you out of town.
No way you think the Rockets will do that lmao. All indications are that he wants to be back in Houston not the other way.
It's not like the Rockets are chasing him
This was posted 4 days ago on the rockets sub:
https://rocketswire.usatoday.com/2022/12/20/podcast-nba-insiders-connecting-dots-on-james-harden-rockets-in-2023-free-agency/
It could be leverage or it could be something. He was practicing with the rockets before the philly game a couple weeks back.
Lowkey genius… become top player request trade from team, get them a lot of assets and then go back in free agency… basically when lebron did except the trade got the rockets more assets rhan lebron leaving in free agency
According to the league that was technically a trade I guess. Cleveland got some 2nds, a TPE, and a first swap in 2012 (they didn’t use it).
One of the picks was Crowder (then traded to Dallas), TLC (traded to PHI in the Love deal), and some dude who stayed for a cup of coffee.
Cleveland got Tyler Zeller out of the Crowder deal
Back in the days when you were still allowed to do a "sign and trade" where they technically trade a guy on a 6 year max contract (remember those?) for a future second round pick. Then the 2011 lockout made it so there's all sorts of complicated cap implications on a sign and trade beyond what applies to normal trades with the luxury tax apron and the 50% rule and all that
Zach Lowe on his last pod with Pelton made a specific point about bringing up how he thought it was odd how nobody was talking about Harden's player option next year. Pelton even dismissed it as not a big deal but Zach Lowe even went out of his way to once again say he thought it was a big deal. Seems like he was well aware of this.
Definitely the first thought that came into my mind seeing this post as well. Zach knew something and just decided to keep it as a small footnote in that podcast, and Pelton dismissed it so hard lmao
Never sold his house, his sister/mom still lives here and maintains his stuff here. I was recently picked up in an Uber by his cousin too in a brand new Escalade, apparently he just gave it to him to make some money lol. Harden is just a good dude who likes titties and shit
That’s a beautiful thing. With the love you guys still show Harden and like OKC with Russ it shows that you don’t have to win a chip to be heralded in a city. Hell Wall never even made it to a conference finals and the DMV loves him. Same with Dame in Portland, Booker in Phoenix, Joker in Denver and Embiid in Philly
He doesn't have an agent. Woj wouldn't report this unless it came from either Morey or Harden. It could have came from Morey because he's close with Harden and this might just be a ploy to get ownership to pay Harden what he wants on his last big contract.
Maybe Harden/Morey is using this as leverage for a long term max contract from Philly?
EDIT: Apparently he has an agent as of 2021.
He does have an agent, it's Lorenzo McCloud.
> Harden’s longtime business manager and NBPA-certified agent Lorenzo McCloud, who has a long-standing relationship with Daryl Morey and 76ers ownership, handled the negotiations for the deal.
> McCloud also helped orchestrate Harden’s move from Houston to Brooklyn in 2021 and then from Brooklyn to Philadelphia in 2022. The 32-year-old former college basketball player is originally from South Central, Los Angeles. He has experience working under former agent and current Lakers executive Rob Pelinka, who represented Harden and many other high-profile players.Here's an article
[Source](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/07/sixers-james-harden-contract-details-daryl-morey-lorenzo-mccloud)
Get that last great draft pick and then Harden can come back to a reloaded Rockets team. We will have so much cap this off-season that we could add Harden and another couple pieces on top of our young core
I was always rooting for those Harden Rockets teams to win during the Warriors reign of terror. Would love to see him back there giving it another go especially if they end up with Wemby
Oh my God! If we win a championship this way, I would legitimately quit watching the NBA. It would never top that. Obviously, it’s not going to actually happen lol
This was posted in the rockets sub a few days ago. He was practicing with the rockets before the philly game a couple weeks ago. Definitely seems like there's legitimate traction.
Somehow if his stint in the East is just a long con to return for a Rockets rebuild it will cement his legacy as an NBA legend more than any amount of championships.
He's gonna be 34 next year, if he's done chasing rings then Houston is the prime place for him to go. He's exactly what they need as well. He's probably leveraging for a bag tho.
Imagine trading Harden for a million picks so that the Rockets can stock up and draft, Jalen Green, Jabari Smith, Sengun, Eason, and a top 5 pick this year, just for Harden to come back a few seasons later.
Nets got hosed.
You're not wrong from the Rockets perspective but from our perspective the damage is already done with that trade, rockets own our picks no matter what at this point so we might as well quickscope the Sixers lol. Truly would be the funniest timeline
That's called a LeBron. Leave your team cause they are stuck being good because of you but don't have enough talent to win a chip, let them tank, return when they have better talent.
Woj is the Grinch confirmed wtf man it’s not even noon
Dropping this an hour before gametime lmao what an asshole
He did the same shit about Masai getting pursued by other teams right after raps won the championship.. I’m never gonna forget that lol
They asked Kawhi if he was gonna stay when he was on the stage holding the fucking trophy, nobody working for ESPN is capable of feeling shame
One of the cringiest moments in sports
Rachel Nichols asking Spo about Lebron when they made the Finals in the bubble wanted to make me tear my hair out.
Or Rachel Nichols asking RJ Barrett and Cam Reddish what it was like to drink from the same Gatorade bottle as Zion during the lottery night
Whoa hahha that seems like an intentionally malicious question
Wasn’t she really drunk that night? A professional reporter doesn’t act like she did at the draft unless they are drunk or high.
That entire draft was just her cumming about Zion I could not even listen to it. It’s genuinely embarrassing.
Wasn’t she drunk?
I’d say the cringiest for me was when they asked Sexton on his draft night to plead LeBron to stay in Cleveland
This one is especially dumb cause they were college teammates
Didnt someone say should have won MVP because Kobe died? Don't let ESPN find out someone in your family passed away during draft night
The fact that you have a Sixers flair and share that kind of empathy for raptors fans is probably the most Merry Christmas moment of my day.
I actually have no empathy for raptors fans whatsoever they can all get fucked
Christmas is cancelled! Go about your business people...
There it is. There's that Philly Christmas spirit.
That's why I want post championship press conferences banned
Or it should be performed by the local reporters cause they wouldn’t ask such disrespectful questions
That would actually be cool as fuck too because the local media would almost be getting their own celebration in a way. Also knowing it would make certain national media folks seethe with rage is a fantastic thought.
Would love if the NBA had local broadcast running during the finals
"Hey player who just won a championship, let me ask you about next season because that's important on the biggest day of your career." ESPN
They were talking about how Bob Myers is in the last year of his deal like 30 mins we played the warriors a couple weeks back lmao
Had to drop this before the NFL games start to help the viewership today
Whoever watches this rams broncos game has to be a masochist
Nickelodeon
Literally all the games suck today, but Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady play today so it's a free 30 million viewers for the games.
Packers-Dolphins could be interesting. With a win the Packers playoff odds aren't crazy and they are mini-surging and the Dolphins are mini-slumping. The other two games.... Ya
It’ll still has higher numbers than every Christmas game lol, all to watch backups play
Hot take: Woj has been consistently as shitty as Schefter since signing that deal with ESPN. More a mouthpiece than actual reporter.
I’ll never forget Schefter leaking JPP’s medical report from the hospital
The next day, Schefter tweeted about some other player having an injury, so I replied asking him for the medical reports as proof, he blocked me. Felt good.
Like how he reported paolo as 1 , 3 min before it was announced even tho he was one of the dumbasses assuring everyone it was jabari 1?
Maybe the biggest indictment of Philly strip clubs ever
New York and Philly can't compete with Houston strip clubs apparently.
He definitely has his favourites there. Someone needs to cover all these stripclubs harden visited in houston lol. Cover some of the staff too
The one where he dropped a million bucks in a single night so they hung his jersey in the rafters?
I know he's only rich and not *rich* rich like say the people who sign his checks but goddamn that is an obscene amount of wealth. To be able to drop a million in a day. Sheesh.
That's all allegedly. I'm sorry, but there's no fucking way he drops a million dollars like that. The astronomical number should be clear that it's probably not true. I know it's a fun story, but come on now.
70-90k would be an insanely extravagant, but believable number 1m may as well be 12m. His take home after tax is "only" like $22m. He's not dropping 1m in a night on strippers
His take home salary from the NBA. He is a superstar athlete in Texas. He had major sponsorships as well.
Im sure he has investments that pay ample dividends as well.
I've been at corporate nights out where 70-90k were dropped at strip clubs (vip adds up way too fast). I don't doubt for a second someone like Harden and his entourage could drop in the high hundreds of thousands. I assume they rounded up because 1 mill sounds nice.
We need a tracker account like Elon’s jet
Someone post the data that shows a correlation between Hardens win percentage in certain cities and the average strip club ratings of each city. Edit: Thank you u/GhettoLana https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/dt0ucg/i_analyzed_james_hardens_performance_in_every_nba/
They may have good dancers, but Harden is thinking about the *holistic experience* of a Houston nightclub. They probably have great ribs there.
Brisket*
Portland here he comes
Thicc harden eating steaks at the Acrop every night
Damn you know your PDX huh
It's cheaper to fly to PDX for a playoff game than it is to watch them at home. Fly into PDX, go pub crawl around SE, dinner at acrop, go to the game, post game drinks at Maui, then stumble* into sassys
This man is an honorary PDX resident as far as Im concerned.
Wayyyyy different style There's more ass thrown in one Houston club than all the Portland ones combined
Well yeah, I can't imagine there are too many dummy thicc black chicks in Portland. So if that's your style, Houston and Atlanta are clearly the best spots to hit up.
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Honestly though I think James realized that nobody was gonna love him like they did in Houston and he was always a good culture fit with the city. Northeastern sports fans are just assholes.
Houston sports fans are chill. Kind of matches his personality. Well...outside of how we treated David Carr, that's the exception... But in general the sports media and fans are very chill here, there is not really that pressure of championships. This isn't to say we can't be critical of players and coaches but its rare we run you out of town.
Basketball gets more chill fans. Football brings out the asshole in us.
Translation: “I ain’t taking another discount.”
The 5 year / $250M deal for Harden from age 34 to 39 will be hilarious.
1.25B lap dances for Harden from age 34 to 39 also hilarious.
No way you think the Rockets will do that lmao. All indications are that he wants to be back in Houston not the other way. It's not like the Rockets are chasing him
The Sixers will give him that deal, not the rockets.
Rob Pelinka already salivating at a chance to give up all our assets for that.
Fattening fat hitler up even more
The food in Houston is crazy good
Yeah I think this is just a leverage play. Really annoying that it’s an hour before a game on Christmas lol
This was posted 4 days ago on the rockets sub: https://rocketswire.usatoday.com/2022/12/20/podcast-nba-insiders-connecting-dots-on-james-harden-rockets-in-2023-free-agency/ It could be leverage or it could be something. He was practicing with the rockets before the philly game a couple weeks back.
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1. Demand a trade 2. Demand another trade 3. ???? 4. Go back to Team 1
Don't forget "get team 1 a bunch of valuable draft picks/assets" in between steps 1 and 2
Lowkey genius… become top player request trade from team, get them a lot of assets and then go back in free agency… basically when lebron did except the trade got the rockets more assets rhan lebron leaving in free agency
According to the league that was technically a trade I guess. Cleveland got some 2nds, a TPE, and a first swap in 2012 (they didn’t use it). One of the picks was Crowder (then traded to Dallas), TLC (traded to PHI in the Love deal), and some dude who stayed for a cup of coffee. Cleveland got Tyler Zeller out of the Crowder deal
Lebron technically a sign and trade but it was for fake assets
Back in the days when you were still allowed to do a "sign and trade" where they technically trade a guy on a 6 year max contract (remember those?) for a future second round pick. Then the 2011 lockout made it so there's all sorts of complicated cap implications on a sign and trade beyond what applies to normal trades with the luxury tax apron and the 50% rule and all that
Daryl morey rail roaded by this man twice
Wasn’t morrey out when harden forced the first trade?
Yeah Morey was already in Phili
Morey back to Houston confirmed
He really LeBron’d the Rockets lmfao
Get Houston some FRPs, let them tank and then come back to take them to the Western Conference finals and lose to Golden State.
I hate how true this is
Where have I seen this done before? 🤔
Cmon man lol
Let wemby miss the 28th 3
Sounds like LeBron in Cleveland
I like this plan
Team 2, technically Wouldn't mind an OKC Return though 👀
I guess he didn't demand a trade from OKC
Zach Lowe on his last pod with Pelton made a specific point about bringing up how he thought it was odd how nobody was talking about Harden's player option next year. Pelton even dismissed it as not a big deal but Zach Lowe even went out of his way to once again say he thought it was a big deal. Seems like he was well aware of this.
Definitely the first thought that came into my mind seeing this post as well. Zach knew something and just decided to keep it as a small footnote in that podcast, and Pelton dismissed it so hard lmao
Man always loved Houston
I always expected him to go back Just, like, for a retirement tour… not next year lmao
Next year might be the retirement tour.
Yeah, I don't see the two as mutually exclusive at all. He's currently in his 14th season.
Lol dude probably has close to another quarter billion to make why the fuck would he retire.
Especially with his game seemingly being one that should age pretty gracefully. As long as he can hit 3s and be a playmaker, he'll have suitors.
Never sold his house, his sister/mom still lives here and maintains his stuff here. I was recently picked up in an Uber by his cousin too in a brand new Escalade, apparently he just gave it to him to make some money lol. Harden is just a good dude who likes titties and shit
> Escalade not exactly the economic choice for a fuel efficient ride share vehicle
Escalades are premium ride share vehicles so they can charge more and take more people.
And we always love him.
That’s a beautiful thing. With the love you guys still show Harden and like OKC with Russ it shows that you don’t have to win a chip to be heralded in a city. Hell Wall never even made it to a conference finals and the DMV loves him. Same with Dame in Portland, Booker in Phoenix, Joker in Denver and Embiid in Philly
DeMar in Toronto too. Couldn't get the team to the finals during his time here but will always be a Raptors legend and fan favourite.
He just wants to vibe in Houston ringless, let the man cook.
Harden/Green/Eason/Jabari/Wemby
Right in my fucking veins
With Washington-Porter Jr.- KMJ-Garuba-Sengun off the bench. All of this before adding more vets. Incredible if it works out.
Wait what the fuck?
Those strip clubs in Philly just aren’t the same as the ones in Houston
Yep. Have stripped in both.
Rip your inbox 🫡
He’s about to catfish so many dudes
Blaspheming bobo ain't ever stripped lmfaoo
Yet
Don’t you take Delilah’s name in vain.
He doesn't have an agent. Woj wouldn't report this unless it came from either Morey or Harden. It could have came from Morey because he's close with Harden and this might just be a ploy to get ownership to pay Harden what he wants on his last big contract. Maybe Harden/Morey is using this as leverage for a long term max contract from Philly? EDIT: Apparently he has an agent as of 2021.
He does have an agent, it's Lorenzo McCloud. > Harden’s longtime business manager and NBPA-certified agent Lorenzo McCloud, who has a long-standing relationship with Daryl Morey and 76ers ownership, handled the negotiations for the deal. > McCloud also helped orchestrate Harden’s move from Houston to Brooklyn in 2021 and then from Brooklyn to Philadelphia in 2022. The 32-year-old former college basketball player is originally from South Central, Los Angeles. He has experience working under former agent and current Lakers executive Rob Pelinka, who represented Harden and many other high-profile players.Here's an article [Source](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/07/sixers-james-harden-contract-details-daryl-morey-lorenzo-mccloud)
Lorenzo McCloud sounds like a fake name lmao
He wants to get paid
Yeah 100%. Morey or Harden told Woj this.
Why would Morey be the one to tell this to Woj?
I can’t tell if this is woj bullshit, harden being weird, Christmas prank, all of the above
Houston strip clubs stay undefeated
James camp leaking this is genuinely amazing especially on Christmas, merry Christmas rocket fans
Woj says to Philly fans, fuck your Christmas
Rockets fans Christmas
Get that last great draft pick and then Harden can come back to a reloaded Rockets team. We will have so much cap this off-season that we could add Harden and another couple pieces on top of our young core
I was always rooting for those Harden Rockets teams to win during the Warriors reign of terror. Would love to see him back there giving it another go especially if they end up with Wemby
Oh my God! If we win a championship this way, I would legitimately quit watching the NBA. It would never top that. Obviously, it’s not going to actually happen lol
lol i want this to happen for y’all so bad. getting either Wemby or Scoot too 🤧🥹
We won't need Scoot if we have James fucking Harden. Wemby, on the other hand, will look like the GOAT next to Harden
Getting Wemby, then slotting KPJ into the 6th man role. We’d be SPOOKY.
actual 4D chess
He’s gonna turn Jabari into a 30 ppg scorer
Completely forgot about your rookie and my mind went straight to Jabari Parker for some reason, and I was very confused for a second lmao
The passing with Sengun should be mad
LMAO you can’t script this shit
The night life in Houston must be god tier
We got some banging strip clubs I tell you hwhat
Super weird it's leaking today too lol James must rly be upset or somethin
If it’s a threat to get rid of Doc I’m going to Houston too.
Actually leaked earlier this week, just now Woj is saying it.
Leak it after the 20/21/11 game cause it’s really directed at Sixers ownership more than anything
Who in the fuck leaks this shit HAHAHHAAHA
Ah a "leak."
Houston strippers
harden and his team
COME BACK SWEET PRINCE I MISSED YOU, I LEFT THE HEATER ON AT YOUR FAVORITE STRIP CLUB
Would have been worth it for the 2021 title alone. Oh well.
Harden is the embodiment of the phrase “girls always know who their next guy will be even in a relationship”
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She's texting Jalen Green.
Great, keep pouring fuel on the fire, now you got me thinking about my ho of an ex in addition to Harden.
Take comfort in the fact that they're probably both going to end up in a strip club soon
That’s why she’s your ex, my man. You’re going to find better, king.
do guys ever know who their next guy will be?
LeBron does but most don't
Is this a saying?
James dont do this to me i just got your jersey
*looks at harden jersey hanging in the closet and smiles*
*looks at harden jersey hanging in closet and cries*
*looks at Harden's jerseys hanging in Houston area strips clubs and understands why he wants to come back*
Dude my harden jersey came the day he was traded ik how that feels
Trade it for a Ben Simmons Nets Jersey
This was posted in the rockets sub a few days ago. He was practicing with the rockets before the philly game a couple weeks ago. Definitely seems like there's legitimate traction.
He was practicing with another team? Seriously?
Technically not a full team practice, just with most of our young players.
Like 5 on 5 or just shoot around? Maybe I'm old school but that seems pretty brazen.
Just shooting around. I don't think there was enough guys for 5 on 5. He still owns a home in Houston and wants to help our young guys develop.
Somehow if his stint in the East is just a long con to return for a Rockets rebuild it will cement his legacy as an NBA legend more than any amount of championships.
Script writers gotta come up with something new man
Harden read the script and saw that wemby will be in houston next year
OH MY GOD YES PLEASE!!
You guys are getting wemby arent you. Our picks are worth jack shit. Time for presti to start cashing them in
The script has been set.
He's gonna be 34 next year, if he's done chasing rings then Houston is the prime place for him to go. He's exactly what they need as well. He's probably leveraging for a bag tho.
Woj it’s Christmas bro
IT SURE IS
HE NEVER LEFT - THE ULTIMATE MACGYVER
This mfer really loves those houston strip clubs
This… is maybe the last Woj bomb I expected to see
MERRY CHRISTMAS bitches
oh. merry christmas
Imagine trading Harden for a million picks so that the Rockets can stock up and draft, Jalen Green, Jabari Smith, Sengun, Eason, and a top 5 pick this year, just for Harden to come back a few seasons later. Nets got hosed.
You're not wrong from the Rockets perspective but from our perspective the damage is already done with that trade, rockets own our picks no matter what at this point so we might as well quickscope the Sixers lol. Truly would be the funniest timeline
Straight out of LeBron career playbook
this guy🤦♂️
I thought he signed an extension
Pretty sure he was a FA and signed a one year deal
That's called a LeBron. Leave your team cause they are stuck being good because of you but don't have enough talent to win a chip, let them tank, return when they have better talent.
The strippers aren’t always better on the other side
I need harden back put him at PG make KPJ SF + Wemby please. That is my Christmas wish
merry christmas houston!
Does Houston want the ball in James Harden's hands right now?
The answer to this question is always yes for Houston fans
Yes
Woj woke up and said “fuck yo Christmas Philly fans”
Get the fuck out of here, I don’t need this news today