This season, the Nets can produce a soap opera around Irving, Durant, Harden, Simmons and Nash, but even if the Nets are swept out by the Green Army, this soap opera still has no end.
As we all know, after the Third Game of the Nets' series against the Green Army, there are news reports that Simmons will return in the fourth game, but after a day, the US media reported that Simmons will not play in the series because of back pain, and the final result is that under the leadership of Irving Durant's two superstars, the Nets were ultimately unable to win a game, which also made the Nets inside the precarious, the outside world for Simmons, for Irving, for Nash's discussion and criticism dominated the headlines of major media. So in order to resolve this internal contradiction, the Nets began to transfer this contradiction, and Harden became the wronged leader.
Earlier NBA salary expert Bobby Marks wrote an analysis of the Nets' offseason operations, during which it revealed a news related to Harden, last January, James Harden's trade has now become a disaster, when Harden was sent to the 76ers to change back to Simmons at this year's trade deadline, the Nets' management is believed to have saved face. Harden's position in Brooklyn is so bad that multiple league sources have revealed that even if Harden is still on the Nets' roster after the trade deadline, there is no guarantee that he will wear a jersey to play.
To be honest, this kind of news about Harden is still very ridiculous, because Harden does not owe anything to the Nets, from Houston to Brooklyn, after defecting to his big brother, Harden which game is not conscientious, even in the face of all kinds of moths made by Irving, Harden has never had any complaints, and now the Nets are swept 4:0 in order to protect Simmons, who still has a 3-year contract, and actually blames the team's loss on Harden's head.
But for Harden, even if he joined the 76ers, Philadelphia will not be his safe haven, after all, in the first round of the playoffs, the 76ers won a great advantage at 3:0, was chased by the Raptors for two consecutive games, losing to the raptors in the first game, Embiid focused on the referee, which also made him happy to mention the 15,000 knife fine, but after losing to the Raptors in this game, Embiid said something like this: "Since he (Harden) came to the team, I have always hoped that he would shoot more. He needs to do his job, but it's not my job to persuade Harden to shoot more, it's Rivers' job, especially when the opponent is defending me like this! That's a blunt statement, and Embiid, who lost game two, blamed Harden for the problem.
It is undeniable that even the entire series Harden has not performed satisfactorily, averaging 40.2 minutes per game in 5 games in the playoffs, getting 18.4 points, 4.8 rebounds and 9.2 assists, shooting 37.3% from the field and shooting 37.9% from three-point range, but now Harden is no longer the Harden of the Rockets' heyday, since last year's playoff hamstring strain insisted on playing for the Nets in the playoffs, he has not been able to recover to his best form, and may never recover to his best form. In this series, it can be seen that many times Harden is more than enough and insufficient, if Philadelphia is really reversed by the Raptors, it is conceivable that Philadelphia will have a storm waiting for Harden.