it’s impossible to look at 55% increase as anything other than an enormous success.
i’d be interested in how they can keep it interesting season over season. if it becomes sort of a prestige thing, players would buy in even more than just the extra chunk of change they get. would be awesome to get like an international tourney too just to settle those debates about “world champion”
i don’t think i’d be ranking harden bc i truly don’t give a shit beyond like top 10, but i will say i’ll always remember harden as the most maddeningly talented player offensively speaking. like—at his peak, he was ruthlessly good. he was a system by himself. you literally could not defend him 1 on 1 for a stretch of his career.