James Harden's new contract with the Sixers is just the latest sign of a player who understands that he was not good enough last season, writes ByDavidMurphy.
The most powerful human emotion is not love or anger or jealousy but shame. That might sound like a bold declaration, but think about the acts committed in its name and you should begin to see its unique ability to both inspire and destroy. Carl Jung’s description of it as a “soul-eating emotion” strikes very close to the source of its singularity: love, anger, jealousy — these are all things we feel primarily toward others. Shame in its purest form is inspired exclusively by ourselves.
that the Sixers announced on Wednesday, and that gives them the salary cap room they need to address most of the holes on their roster.Let’s be clear about the point here: $69 million over two years does not put Harden in the running for any Citizen of the Year awards. From a purely ethical framework, it is a fair deal and nothing more.
This was not a pure giveback by Harden. In return for that $14 million this year, the Sixers guaranteed him a $36 million salary for next year. That’s not nothing, either. Had Harden opted in at $47 million this year, he would have hit next summer’s free agent market needing to sign a contract that paid him at least $22 million for the 2023-24 season in order to equal the $69 million he is now guaranteed for these next two years.
If he had arrived in Philadelphia determined to be the player he was in Houston, the outcome would not have been any better than it ended up last season. Harden needed to understand who he was, and who the Sixers were, and what he needed to do to make all of them the winningest versions of themselves. And, from Day 1, that is what he has done.
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