Hell no, Molly.

Hell, no.

Send them for what?

What?

What?

What?

What?

What are the Rock is gonna benefit by sitting James Harden.

Nothing.

This is a guy still today.

That is a walking bucket.

One of the best scores that the game has ever seen.

There's no way the Rockets Kasit James Harden.

Ah, guy that your pan over Costa.

$40 million a year M v p.

Candidate type guy.

Yes, he has his extracurricular activities that he has his issues off the court.

But when he steps between those lines, the guy still could play basketball and he could help the Rockets.

He still is the rock Mr Rocket himself.

He is the culture.

Still, while he's in a rocket uniforms, the Rockets best decision is to play James Harden deal whatever they have to deal with and keep it moving.

It makes zero sense at all to sit.

James Harden.

John Wall is okay with playing with them.

Uh, DaMarcus cousins is okay.

Woods is okay.

When he did play with them in the preseason, it seemed pretty good to me.

So I know if I'm the rockets, you gotta hold tight.

You got to deal with these issues internally, try to get past it.

But sitting James Harden is not the answer.

Sitting James Harden, actually, shockingly is the answer, and I have to give credit to Stephen A.

Smith, who mentioned this the other day.

And let me tell you why Number one Perk.

You're wrong about the idea that because he has two more years left on the deal, the team has all this leverage.

The team has almost no leverage.

In fact, the more I think about it, the fact is that the teams have leverage in the C B A right because they're billionaires.

They have a monopoly of de facto monopoly on professional basketball.

If you want to get rich and you're great at basketball, you got to deal with the N B A.

And so they win the C B A is.

It favors the owners over the players.

But what superstar players have in terms of leverage is if they're unhappy in the situation, they want out.

There's really nothing you could do.

Like, you know, if you have the greatest owner off all time in the history of professional sports by far in America, the late, great Dr Jerry Buss.

And you're the Lakers, and you've got you know, L A.

Maybe you can talk Kobe Bryant into staying long enough to figure out how to make the team better.

This ain't that, and that's really the only example I can think of.

If it disgruntled superstar really wants out, your team is sunk.

If you don't deal him, everyone knows this, including the Rockets.

You gotta deal, Harden.

Here's the problem.

I said long ago.

The sooner they deal him, the better the deal they're going to get.

Now I know what the Rockets are thinking.

Well, we're not getting enough of an offer yet.

We're just not going to trade him for that.

I told you how to fix that.

You gotta let all the teams no come with your best and final right now.

We're dealing them right now and you will get the best offer that you'll ever get because his trade value is only gonna decline from here.

Look what we saw in the first two games.

Perk.

The first game we see hey D is back.

That looked like a d to me.

If you're the Philadelphia 76.

And by the way, let's start with the Nets K D Kyrie.

They have unselfish players around them who can really score like Caris Levert, who can monopolize the ball but doesn't have to who you can leave off, you know, lose off the bench.

Or you can get his own shot off the dribble without over dribbling.

Right?

Who has a smooth overall game?

Din Witty, Who's an actual point guard?

He's like an actually a good player.

You got Allen.

You got a lot of guys who can play in riel depth on the Nets.

You don't need James Harden if you're if you're the Brooklyn Nets.

And if you're the Sixers and you watch that you're looking at Ben Simmons going, we need someone to try to your No one's gonna stop k D.

But we need someone who could do the best job humanly possible on K D.

That's Ben Simmons, or else you really don't have a shot.

And it got worse yesterday because what's the take away after that Sixers game?

Look, Seth Curry and Danny Green ain't gonna miss all their threes all year.

That's just not gonna happen.

But Maxie, Tyreese, Maxie, how is he not a lottery pick?

And he didn't even play that much.

And you could see the talent shake.

Milton is showing you Last year was not a fluke.

He can actually play.

If you're the Sixers and you have what you have on that team right now, I wouldn't be in such a a rush to trade for James Harden.

I wouldn't be.

Certainly not if I would.

That's a deal breaker if they even bring up Ben Simmons.

But I actually like what I have.

If I'm the Sixers, and then you gotta look at Harden's track record of playing with other superstars, even when it's his dude.

Like Chris, Paul is one thing.

But rest.

He asked for Westbrook one year later.

He doesn't want Westbrook anymore.

No, I'm not giving up the farm for Harden, and a lot of teams feel that way, so perk.

His trade value is not going to go up.

But you know what can happen.

He could get hurt.

He can be forced to show up and play, and everyone knows he doesn't wanna be.

There is trade value can go down or if you're the Sixers, and you wanna sorry if you're the Rockets and you wanna be grownups about it, you wanna be smart, You say Okay, everyone knows we're dealing James Harden were sitting him, by the way, One of the things is he's durable.

Don't risk that right now.

Sit him down and let everyone know.

Come with your best and final offer.

We're moving this dude, and you will get the best offer that you will ever get for this guy.

Max, you just confused the hell out of me because I thought the question was Sit, the rockets sit.

James Harden, you went on the talk about how good the Brooklyn Nets are and how good the Philadelphia 76 is our And then you came back and talked about sitting James Harden in this trade value.

I don't get it.

I don't get it.

You just confused the hell out of me because you first of all, if I'm feeling, why would you sit heart?

It makes zero sense to sit him.

Because if you see them, guess what?

You thought you seen videos of him in the club.

He's definitely gonna be in the club.

You think he came in the train.

You think he came in the preseason out of shape?

He's definitely gonna be out of shape.

And that's really gonna bring his trade value down.

And James Harden is Ah, Hooper.

He's Ah, Hooper is just guys that when they stepped between those lines as a former basketball player, Max, you never played the game.

So I got to teach you this as a former basketball player.

When you get on the court, you blocked it, blocks out everything that's happening in your life.

That is your sanctuary.

Hooping is your sanctuary.

How many times guys you didn't heard Guys say man hooping is my safe haven hooping saved my life.

So sitting James Harden is not good for James Harden.

Sitting James Harden is not good for the Houston Rockets.

So at the end of the day, the Rockets have to nip this in the bud internally, figure it out and move on from this and have James Harden be available when he's ready to play in the NBA lets him get through the protocol.

The question is, should the Rockets said James Harden perk?

Not sure.

James Harden want to sit although I might add that he probably should.

But I didn't say that.

Question is the Rockets, said James Harden.

Why now?

So the question my answer is yes.

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