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Sixers mailbag: What’s next after James Harden trade?

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A bundle of Sixers questions and answers following the anticlimactic end of the James Harden saga.

For whatever reason, the Philadelphia 76ers were unable to land James Harden, who will instead join Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn. It could be that Daryl Morey was too stringent with his assets. It could be that Houston, led by a petty billionaire who couldn’t see past his own ego, was reluctant to gift Morey with its prized possession. Either way, the Sixers are stuck between a rock and a hard place.