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  • perk, even if you're right and to some hardened looks worse.

  • In fact, what that's going to do is further devalue him in a trade, making it easier to get to where he wants to go, because they're not going to keep a different player all year.

  • They just won't.

  • They won't do well as a team if they do that.

  • And so you know who's smiling right now?

  • You know who's sitting there smiling?

  • Daryl Morey.

  • If what you're saying is true, Daryl Morey is sitting back laughing, going okay?

  • No one wants him.

  • Bet.

  • Bet.

  • Okay, here's our offer.

  • Here's our offer.

  • Great.

  • Come on, James Harden, Join Embiid and Simmons.

  • Daryl Morey is laughing.

  • Right now.

  • What you're saying is true.

  • Oh, you think that's just how it happened in Max?

  • Let me tell you something.

  • I talked to three general managers over the last three days, and they all had the same question about James Harden.

  • Would I be?

  • Would I be crazy to trade for him and give up this person or give up this person or give up these assets and bring him to this organization?

  • Knowing what he brings off the court asking me questions about him.

  • This is not something that I'm making up.

  • Max Kellerman.

  • I'm telling you something that I know.

  • I'm telling you something that I know.

  • So turn your video on on your laptop and listen to me as I'm teaching you and schooling you about what's going on.

  • And what's happening right now is the front offices or listening to Dennis looking at Dennis Rodman, looking at James Harden like the modern day Dennis Rodman.

  • He wants to be the rock star.

  • And look, Dennis Rodman was a rock star, but least he showed up to work and was in shape.

  • And what I'm trying to tell you is is that teams are now second guessing.

  • Teams are now second guessing themselves, Max on whether whether or not to take a chance on James Harden give up young starts, um, assets, because they don't what that means is basket basketball Professor, let me introduce you to an economic theory.

  • Okay, supply and demand.

  • If the demand is down right, there's less demand for harden than his price falls, making it easier for him to get to where he wants to go, meaning the longer this drags on the less the Rockets are likely to get for him, putting more pressure on them to give him now.

  • Max again.

  • The Rockets do not have to trade James Harden.

  • He still has two years left on his deal.

  • Do you not realize that the Rockets are not just gonna give up James Harden?

  • They're showing us that right now.

  • This is the reason that James Harden is on the Houston Rockets today because they're not just gonna take anything, Max.

  • So what are you talking about?

  • Well, let me say this.

  • Let me Let me China Hold up, Max Holden.

  • Max.

  • Hold on, Max.

  • First of all, Kendrick Perkins is absolutely right.

  • This is exactly what GM Zehr saying.

  • They're asking these questions about James Harden as we speak.

  • He's absolutely, positively right because I've spoken to a few myself.

  • That's exactly what they're saying.

  • That's number one number two.

  • There's no way that the market for James Harden is going to lower that the Houston Rockets is just gonna say, OK, he's so much of a malcontent, and he doesn't wanna be here so desperately, and the market's going to dry out.

  • So as a result, you know what we're going to give less just to get.

  • We're gonna take less just to get rid of him.

  • People are gonna try that.

  • Executives are gonna try to pull that okey doke.

  • It will not work.

  • They're gonna have to give up a tremendous asset, if not several, in order to get the likes of James Harden.

  • There is no way around that because he's so significant to their franchise that if they lose him and they don't get some kind of equitable compensation in return, they know that they're done for years to come.

  • That's the situation right now.

  • Look, look that, but think of what you're saying.

  • First of all, they've already lost him.

  • It's this This is the power that an MBA superstar has.

  • If he's not gonna give his heart and soul to your team, you're not going to do very well with him now.

  • What?

  • No matter what you say, Stephen A.

  • You're right.

  • There will be a very good package for James Harden under any circumstances.

  • But if what Kendrick Perkins is saying is true, and of course it's true if there he wouldn't say it on TV.

  • Right.

  • Perk.

  • Of course, I understand what you're saying is true.

  • The fewer G M's want James Harden unnecessarily means his trade value goes down.

  • The more buyers, the higher the price.

  • The fewer buyers, the lower the price.

  • So whatever package you're talking about, Stephen A.

  • Gets weaker as time goes on.

  • If Mawr and mortgage gm's feel the way the three that KP spoke to feel, that's my point.

  • That's why it's in the best interest of the Rockets to trade him sooner than later, because the value ain't going up.

  • Max.

  • That didn't make no damn sense at all.

  • That's why if you're the rock is you hold on to him because you have him for two years and you don't just have to accept anything.

  • And, by the way, James Harden, let me tell you something.

  • One thing I do know about James Harden James Harden is Ah, Hooper.

  • So once he gets in between those lines, he's gonna who you watch the preseason game.

  • He was engaged.

  • He was out there cheering on his teammates.

  • He was out there cheering on his teammates, interacting with his teammates, figuring out things on the defensive end.

  • So, Max, to your point, you keep saying that it's in the Rockies.

  • Best interest, just the trade them and take whatever.

  • No, it's not.

  • It's in their best interest to do exactly what they're doing right now and saying, You know what?

  • We're going to start the season with James Harden.

  • When Houston Rockets Jersey.

  • You think they're gonna finish it that way?

  • No.

  • They probably way you mean they're going to give them?

  • They're not going to give them away for a box of cookies.

  • They're not gonna fold like that.

  • They can't afford to fold like that.

  • Could you imagine what will happen to the Houston Rockets franchise if you give away the league's leading scorer over the last three years, the league MVP, a brother that's averaged over 30 the last three years for nothing?

  • Could you imagine what's gonna happen to their franchise?

  • They know this.

  • They know this and and James knows this.

  • James knows.

  • And James Harden in his heart of hearts.

  • He knows he made a mistake by letting it get out that he wanted to go toe one particular team.

  • He should have just said, I want out, but when you highlight a specific team, what happens is that really makes it that much tougher for Houston to make a deal, which is part of the reason why he's still there.

  • Even a Is Daryl Morey happier or sadder this morning?

  • Based on the latest news?

  • You think Daryl Morey sitting there a little sadder or a little happier today because that will tell you a lot of what you need to know.

  • The GM, who want to make a move on hardball are happier today than they were a couple days ago.

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