Tracy McGrady: James Harden have to be coping with ‘inside bulls–t’

Tracy McGrady believes James Harden isn’t being utterly sincere.

With Harden seemingly set on enjoying for the Los Angeles Clippers this upcoming season regardless of opting into his $35.6 million participant possibility for subsequent 12 months with the Philadelphia 76ers, McGrady thinks the guard could have some “inside” points which are factoring into the commerce request from a title-contending staff.

“I don’t perceive for the lifetime of me what James Harden is doing,” McGrady said in an interview with GQ Sports. “I have a look at all of the teammates he’s performed with. James has in all probability performed with extra Corridor of Famers than anyone within the league, and he doesn’t have a hoop to indicate for it. I don’t know what he’s on the lookout for. And possibly there’s some inside bulls–t that is happening that we don’t find out about.

“It doesn’t make any sense to me to go away the MVP, and the Japanese Convention, the place you may have a shot to at the least play for a championship. It’s received to be one thing deeper than what you recognize. Recover from it, man.”

A possible inside wrestle that Harden might be going through is his willingness to take care of Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey, whom he reportedly has a “fractured” relationship with now.

“The connection between James Harden and Daryl Morey, it’s basically severed,” Shams Charania mentioned on an episode of ‘The Rally.’ “It’s basically fractured all through this course of. There’s not that valve of open-minded, open-ended belief that we’ve seen over the course of 692 video games that Daryl Morey and James Harden have been collectively in Houston and in Philly.”

McGrady, a Corridor of Famer, understands what it’s prefer to be a famous person expertise who hasn’t received a championship. The ahead was a seven-time All-Star and seven-time All-NBA choice however solely superior previous the primary spherical as soon as in 2013 as a reserve for the San Antonio Spurs.

For Harden, who has earned loads of particular person accolades as a participant, leaving Philadelphia most definitely additionally means leaving the perfect scenario for him to compete for a championship. However the 2018 MVP is infamous for leaving groups excessive and dry as soon as he feels prepared to go away.

Throughout his final 12 months with the Houston Rockets, he got here into coaching camp off form and refused to play for stretches of the season earlier than he was inevitably traded to the Brooklyn Nets. He basically did the identical factor with the Nets, leading to his commerce to Philadelphia.

Morey would like to preserve Harden in Philadelphia alongside league MVP Joel Embiid but when something is true concerning the 10-time All-Star, it’s that he at all times will get what he desires in relation to commerce requests.