![]() ![]() Chicago can now use the $10.2 million in free agency and trade opportunities. The NBA has granted the Chicago Bulls a disabled player exception for Lonzo Ball, who is expected to miss all of next season rehabbing his right knee, sources told The Athletic.I actually do hope Harden’s situation stagnates enough to have us monitoring Sixers training camp wondering if he’s going to show up and eager to see what happens if he does. But Harden has an expiring deal, and he can threaten any team trying to trade for him that he won’t re-sign. We’ve seen Tom Thibodeau think that could work with Jimmy Butler, and it blew up. The idea of keeping Harden probably won’t work. Is Morey able to keep ownership calm if something wild like that happens? Morey is known for throwing out trade proposals that are symbolic middle fingers to the other team.Ĭould Morey withstand Harden’s ways of potentially making things uncomfortable? Remember, there are people on the internet who believe he even wore a fat suit during warm-ups with the Rockets to get traded. Morey, the Sixers’ president of basketball ops, can be stubborn, and we saw how that played out with Ben Simmons. This could get wonderfully awkward, and we love awkward chaos. Harden’s stance has not changed, a source close to him told The Athletic. ![]() ![]() Morey is known to be asking for the kind of return that - as of Tuesday afternoon - left the strong impression that he had no genuine interest in getting a deal done anytime soon. The sluggish trade talks between the Sixers and Clippers about Harden would seem to support this stance. Yet despite all that relevant history, and in spite of the fact that (Daryl) Morey may know Harden, and all of his complexities, better than anyone in the NBA, rival executives with whom I spoke at summer league were universally convinced that the Sixers are now attempting to keep Harden. Sam Amick’s latest from Las Vegas provided an update on what’s happening with Harden and the trade market: ![]()
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