{"id":464961,"date":"2023-10-06T07:21:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464961"},"modified":"2023-10-06T07:21:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:21:34","slug":"embiid-claims-harden-not-a-distraction-to-76ers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/embiid-claims-harden-not-a-distraction-to-76ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Embiid claims Harden not a distraction to 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA&#8217;s current MVP, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, shared today that he is satisfied James Harden is back with the organization and hasn&#8217;t been a distraction, but that the task for Philly is on installing their basic offensive and defensive philosophies under new manager Nick Nurse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t think about that,&#8221; Embiid claimed when questioned what his expectations were for the Beard\u2019s level of involvement after a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> straight practice that Harden participated in. &#8220;Harden is preparing with us. That&#8217;s my knowledge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joel Embiid says James Harden has not been a distraction so far, unlike the situation from a couple years ago \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dGPLvhQZhA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dGPLvhQZhA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RB (@RBPhillyTake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBPhillyTake\/status\/1709995175055900800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we didn\u2019t think about that. Our main task is on getting the offense and defense together figuring out how to be more competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a franchise, we&#8217;re just focused on what we&#8217;ve got to learn and learn in the near future. Our time is very limited until the start of the new season. We want to triumph, and that&#8217;s the goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA&#8217;s current MVP, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, shared today that he is satisfied James Harden is back with the organization and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":464963,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16841,17837,16840],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18479,17913,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Joel thinks that James is not a distraction to the team.","video":["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\/464961"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464966,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464961\/revisions\/464966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464961"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464961"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}