James Harden Update:
Harden’s return is uncertain because he’s tending to his mom who is ill, I’m told.
The mindset of the 76ers PG is that the health of his mother comes first.
“He’s going through it,” a source with knowledge shares.
“He loves to compete & he is in the best shape of his life. But he feels a sense of betrayal from Philly.”
That betrayal apparently stems from the Harden publicly calling Sixers team President Daryl Morey “a liar.”
Per a source: “Hopefully he returns, but family comes first.”
Harden just got into the kayfabe HOF for this bit.
He already wasn’t coming back when he called Morey a liar in China. His mom being ill was an unfortunate coincidence. That being said, he’s not playing basketball for awhile and when he does, it won’t be in Philly.
I’m sure the Sixers would have been fine with this if he had simply told them
Hope his mum gets better soon, some y’all are fucking gross.
Maybe he will shave that nonsense off his face so momma can see her boy
I think he’s done. This is Latrell Sprewell all over again.
Trying to save himself from being fined and violating contract conditions.
Take care of your family first then you can come back to basketball. Prayers for your family
There was someone on this sub that said that harden was going to try to go back to Houston cause his mom was sick. They deleted it once it got a little bit of traction but I wonder now….
This is the same excuse i used when i had to explain the “gap year” in my resume lmao
ScoopB is not a very reliable source
Agreed, but it’s also not the first time I’ve heard this rumor, especially from people in the Rockets media ecosystem.
From what I’ve seen it seems like his mother has cancer, she seems to be treated in Houston which is why Harden has been going there every time he gets the chance to in the last few months.
Still kinda weird how the Sixers FO was instantly putting him in a bad light by pushing news about him not showing up to camp, while they didn’t even knew the reason yet.
and not playing for Daryl Morey comes second, and third, and fourth.
I’m going to believe this one is real, simply because harden is t so cold hearted he would use his mom as a pawn
I just wish people like Woj would stop reporting shit like “Harden is absent again today” without any additional context. People start speculating and say some really shitty stuff that, when context like this comes out, looks terrible.
It’s a feature, not a big. They know that reporting it without context makes Harden look bad and that’s the point.