James Harden has requested a trade and wants to join Paul George and Kawhi Leonard on the Los Angeles Clippers. Sixers President Daryl Morey is in The Beard’s doghouse because Harden, it’s believed, didn’t get the long-term contract he was hoping for, and because Morey hasn’t been willing to accommodate his trade request to date.
(Sighs). That’s the most summary I can muster for you right now because frankly, I feel we’ve written way too much about Harden this summer.
Now the latest comes from Showtime’s Rachel Nichols, who appeared on FS1’s “Undisputed” with Skip Bayless.
Per Nichols:
“It’s the fact that he is 34 (years old), he’s not the player that he used to be, and if he can acknowledge that I think he will continue to have success in the NBA for a while.