{"id":438684,"date":"2023-06-28T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438684"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:38:23","slug":"james-harden-has-to-decide-if-hell-return-to-76ers-or-go-to-rockets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/james-harden-has-to-decide-if-hell-return-to-76ers-or-go-to-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden is torn between 76ers and Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Harden might have to deal with some serious dilemma this week regarding his future as a Philadelphia 76ers player. The main question is: Will Harden return to Philly for a third season with the team?<\/p>\n<p>All signs point to Harden declining his $35.6 million option on Thursday and entering this summer as an unrestricted free agent. That leaves the 2018 NBA MVP and 10-time All-Star free to sign with any team he wants.<\/p>\n<p>Harden might not have planned much beyond a potential Houston reunion or Sixers return. Philadelphia has the home-contract edge: The 76ers have the right to offer Harden a $210 million, four-year deal, $8 million more overall than any other team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">76ers are &#8220;determined&#8221; to sign James Harden to a new contract this offseason, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harden has until June 29 to pick up his $35.6M player option for the 2023-24 season ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q2Ut2rkYPX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Q2Ut2rkYPX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1673133217984151553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Houston, though, where Harden blossomed into a surefire Hall of Famer is a city that still tugs at his heart and that may play the big role in his much anticipated decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Harden might have to deal with some serious dilemma this week regarding his future as a Philadelphia 76ers player. The main question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438685,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,16869,16840],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18346,18355,17913],"acf":{"announce":"He refused his $35.6 million option on Thursday","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\/438684"}],"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=438684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438684"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438684"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}