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The Sixers at this point don't have a choice to begin with. There's no real suitors and that includes the Clippers. The Clippers only really want Harden on their terms. Harden is going to be a Sixer. And it's going to be up to him to digest that in the days ahead, have perspective, and recognize his value around the league is not to a level he may have believed it would and believes it should be and prove people wrong this season.
Sixers could use the draft capital to make other moves. They have little. The Morey Master Plan is gonna be hard to execute next offseason.
Prove people wrong? If last season didn't prove to teams that Harden is valuable then why the fuck would this season be any different? He led the league in assists and was one of the top players in the league by most metrics. Do you expect him to play even better than last year despite being forced to play on a team he wants no part of? Harden would have exactly the same value around the league whether he sits out all year or plays 82 games for the Sixers.
I think the playoff collapse against the Celtics really hurt his value, but I also agree his value is dampened by things that don't have to do with his on-the-court ability, which is why it behooves him to go out there and play and show he can go through a full season and not create dissention and wreck a locker room, whether it be fair or not that his rep basically has come to that.