Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I forgot he took a team-friendly deal last year.

Aw, good ol Hunter. Just hanging around in the tourist areas, looking to backslide on his recovery, hoping to score some blow in the tourist areas of the WH.

Can anyone post the relevant bit? I got halfway into the article before the paywall came up. Does it go into any depth about what Harden wants or how Morey mishandled things? Or is this just a tweet masquerading as an article.

As a Sixer fan all I can say is I knew they'd do this to us.

Keeping him as of now will push them over the luxury tax.

The 2 sides settled & details were not released. But the point is, he sat out with the very real possibility of not making any money.

Yesterday I was wondering if this was some kind of smokescreen - it just doesn't make sense at face value. But even then I can't figure out how this would potentially benefit Portland or the receiving team. Then today, more chatter about him sitting out, maybe its real, after all.