{"id":436132,"date":"2023-05-17T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T18:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436132"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T18:44:50","slug":"harden-passes-new-deal-with-76ers-to-leave-as-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/harden-passes-new-deal-with-76ers-to-leave-as-a-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Harden passes new deal with 76ers to leave as a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; guard James Harden intends to turn down a $35.6 million offer to become a free agent this summer, reports Bleacher Report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Harden plans to decline $35.6M option to become a free agent and secure a long-term deal, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ChrisBHaynes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s interested in teams with \u2018a competitive roster\u2019 and wants \u2018the basketball freedom\u2019 to be himself <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OmX5YnAUDs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OmX5YnAUDs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1658876918987358224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 10-time All-Star wants to sign a four-year deal with a team that has a &#8220;competitive lineup&#8221;. Harden, 33, is averaging 21 points, 10.7 assists and 6.1 rebounds in 58 games in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>There is talk that Harden could return to the Houston Rockets. Philadelphia lost Game 7 to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals and fired coach Doc Rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; guard James Harden intends to turn down a $35.6 million offer to become a free agent this summer, reports Bleacher Report. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":434927,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16869,16840],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18355,17913],"acf":{"announce":"The guard may return to Rockets","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436132"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436132"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}