After playing for the Brooklyn Nets for 1 and a half seasons, Harden still left the Nets before this year's trade deadline, was sent to the Philadelphia 76ers by the team, when the Rockets forced the Palace rockets to send themselves to the Nets, Harden was hoping to launch an attack on the championship in his lifetime, and as a result, he did not want to join the team in the first season, the team suffered an injury wave, and the finals of the Eastern Conference semifinals, and this season is not easy to tidy up, plus the bench is also upgraded than the previous season, the result is that Irving did not vaccinate Coupled with Durant's knee injury again, the struggling Nets also made Harden germinate the idea of leaving the team.
In this way, Harden also ended his short Nets career, thus opening his own new chapter in Philadelphia, and was able to join forces with Embiid, one of the top interior players in the 76ers and the league, which also made the outside world have great expectations for this combination. Although it has not yet been officially put on the Nets jersey for the new owner, but philadelphia fans have expressed a warm welcome to the team's new backcourt core, in the last two games the 76ers are home games, the stadium big screen also specially played Harden's previous highlights, causing a cheer from the home audience, I have to say that the home atmosphere of the 76ers is indeed much better than harden's previous Rockets and Nets.
And the strength of the Philadelphia fans, but also let everyone inevitably begin to think of Harden before playing for the Rockets team home "miserable", the time back to May 17, when the Rockets in the Western Conference semifinals ushered in the showdown with the Spurs, the game came to the sixth game, and this game is exactly the home of the Rockets, in order to give the home popularity, Harden also wrote a letter to a fan, hoping that this fan can give this letter to their boss, let him agree to give this fan a holiday, So that in the sixth game, you can go to the Toyota Center early to cheer up the rocket.
During Harden's time with the Rockets, the team also once became the top team in the West, although the rocket's strength is impeccable, but the atmosphere of the home stadium Toyota Center has not been good, and even sometimes the game will have a lot of front row vacancies, and rocket fans have always been accustomed to late arrival, often appearing in the game until the second quarter of the "late" picture.
Even if Harden later switched to the Nets, a team located in Brooklyn, New York, the popularity of the Nets is far inferior to that of the Knicks next door, and even appeared in the dilemma of the Nets' home Barclays Center fans to cheer on the guest players, including Curry and Morant have been called MVP at home by Nets fans this season. It also made the Nets players very embarrassed. Now that he has joined the 76ers, a powerful team that has a certain popularity in the whole league, fans have also begun to ridicule Harden, who finally does not have to write to fans to pull popularity for the team.
In recent years, with the improvement of the 76ers' record, the team's home stadium also often appears a ticket is difficult to find a full seat, in addition, Philadelphia's Chinese cultural elements are also the top existence of the league, with the Rockets this Chinese fan once played for many years of experience, Harden joined the 76ers this time, will definitely get a more important position than in the Nets fans, with the encouragement of fans, Harden is not impossible to see it as a forward driving force, in the cooperation with Embiid, who is very good at blocking and dismantling the top internal line cooperation, Another peak of his career in Philadelphia!