{"id":20741,"date":"2022-07-21T01:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T01:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-hardens-new-deal-with-philadelphia-76ers-includes-player-option-for-2023-24-season\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T01:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T01:06:47","slug":"james-hardens-new-deal-with-philadelphia-76ers-includes-player-option-for-2023-24-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-hardens-new-deal-with-philadelphia-76ers-includes-player-option-for-2023-24-season\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden&#8217;s new deal with Philadelphia 76ers includes player option for 2023-24 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Philadelphia 76ers free agent star James Harden is returning to the franchise on a new two-year, $68.6 million contract, including a player option for the 2023-24 season, sources told ESPN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal guarantees Harden $33 million for next season and the opportunity to decline his $35.6 million player option and negotiate another free agent deal next summer, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Harden, who had declined a $47.4 million player option for next season, delivered the 76ers salary-cap flexibility with his pay cut for 2022-23 &#8212; allowing them to sign free agents PJ Tucker and Danuel House using the midlevel and biannual exceptions, and facilitating the ability to acquire De&#8217;Anthony Melton in a draft night trade with Memphis.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline float-r inline-track\"><\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date on the latest NBA free agency and trade news all summer long:<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Harden &#8212; a 10-time All-Star and a six-time first-team All-NBA guard &#8212; told Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey that he wanted to do his part to fortify the team&#8217;s roster and give it a better chance to compete for a championship.  And declining that $47.4 million player option could also give the organization flexibility to make deals once this coming season is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise is hopeful Harden&#8217;s commitment to winning will include him returning to preseason training camp in better physical condition than he played in both Brooklyn and Philadelphia last season.<\/p>\n<p>Harden, who turns 33 next month, averaged 22 points and 10.3 assists across 65 games with the Nets and Sixers.  Brooklyn traded him to Philly in February as part of a blockbuster deal that included Ben Simmons joining the Nets.  For the fourth time in five years, though, the Sixers were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Harden spent only a year in Brooklyn, after his wildly successful eight-year run in Houston ended near the start of the 2020-21 season, when he was sent to partner with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving on the Nets for a significant package of draft assets and players.  After a second-round loss to the Milwaukee Bucks two years ago, Harden&#8217;s relationship with the Nets deteriorated in the wake of Irving&#8217;s inability to play in New York due to the city&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>In Philadelphia, Harden was reunited with former Rockets general manager Morey, and they worked together to find a way to keep Harden a Sixer on this new deal and improve the franchise&#8217;s roster this summer.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN&#8217;s Tim Bontemps contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers free agent star James Harden is returning to the franchise on a new two-year, $68.6 million contract, including a player option for the 2023-24 season, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The deal guarantees Harden $33 million for next season and the opportunity to decline his $35.6 million player option and negotiate another free &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-hardens-new-deal-with-philadelphia-76ers-includes-player-option-for-2023-24-season\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Harden&#8217;s new deal with Philadelphia 76ers includes player option for 2023-24 season<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[5917,68,46,1230],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20979,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-harden-reaches-two-year-68-8m-deal-to-return-to-philadelphia-76ers-philadelphia-76ers\/","url_meta":{"origin":20741,"position":0},"title":"James Harden reaches two-year, $68.8m deal to return to Philadelphia 76ers |  Philadelphia 76ers","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Free agent James Harden has agreed on a two-year, $68.6m contract to return to the Philadelphia 76ers and will make about $14.5m less this coming season than he could have earned under his previous deal, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Wednesday .The 2018 NBA Most Valuable Player\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21043,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-harden-reaches-two-year-68-8m-deal-to-return-to-philadelphia-76ers-philadelphia-76ers-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":20741,"position":1},"title":"James Harden reaches two-year, $68.8m deal to return to Philadelphia 76ers |  Philadelphia 76ers","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Free agent James Harden has agreed on a two-year, $68.6m contract to return to the Philadelphia 76ers and will make about $14.5m less this coming season than he could have earned under his previous deal, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Wednesday .The 2018 NBA Most Valuable Player\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21108,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-harden-76ers-agree-to-68-6-million-contract\/","url_meta":{"origin":20741,"position":2},"title":"James Harden, 76ers agree to $68.6 million contract","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"James Harden is back in Philadelphia \u2013 for far less money, that is. 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