JJ, isn't the Ant Edwards discussion technically tampering..

You have to stop with the podcasts. You players like to revise history with you opinions and keep changing the real event that had happened. This is bad for the history of the league. Because in the future these podcasts could be the source of information of how we look at players.

You know what? It is my life. I will definitely check out the full show, or I won't. It will be one or the other. I get to choose! It's my life!

You inspire change. Thanks for leading the way

@@DABEATBAKERZhe’s really good being a guest too though, like when joe Rogan goes on someone else’s podcast it’s kinda refreshing. Makes em relax I feel like since they’re on the other side

These comments keep one upping each other 😎

Hopefully not. He's a race baiting coward. You're a millionaire that's out of touch who expects the same pay with less labor and views. You expect us fans to get behind a players that lives in the strip club and plays basketball as a hobby. Go away clown.

Are you telling him? Lol

@@MegaKevin13 you da man Kev dawg

man, i dunno. i had a really hard time following iggy's train of thought.

I think iggy has the right opinions and stuff, but my problem with him is he runs in circles with his ideas, just takes him a while to get his point out. Then again jj and evan turner are of the same vreed and are doing successful, so what can I say.

@@bigdripbobz1072 i suppose going by this one clip isn't exactly fair. he sounds like he's got points to make, but he seems to side track himself and not complete thoughts before moving onto other things. i guess that's what you mean by running in circles.

Ya I didn’t understand Iggy or Turner at all

We are witnessing just bits of why ppl like iggy (veterans) are big vital to a team even when playing minimum minutes.

he actually makes very little sense. i dont think he sees the big pic.

agree, iggy is struggling to paint a story/answer that is clear - unlike turner & JJ@@HumanOptimization

@@HumanOptimization what's te big pic, then ? real question

hahaha iggy is the sleazy atty you need. only good for his client but not the big picture. same as cp3...... thats why they union heads

You’d be reassured unless you were Rudy Gobert then he’s cool with just throwing you under the bus for accepting generational wealth when it’s offered to you

Ok and teams openly admit that they wont play players and let them rot on the bench. The Rockets literally did that to Wall and they got no fine

not in this settings@@sydguitar99

@@sydguitar99 John Wall agreed on getting benched though... It wasn't against his will

​@@sydguitar99horrible example. John wall offered to not play.

He openly said he felt pressure by the org on various podcasts@@sirjimssirjims9047

hahaha

He’s actually exposing himself on some topics. Badly…

20-25 years ago all NBA players wanted to be rappers and the rappers wanted to be in the NBA

Damn right! Both maggots should honor their contracts. You light up you sign up!

Where did he not fulfill his contract?

​@@WoTMike1989He said he wouldn't play for the team didn't he?

@@ANGELOFDARKification Nah, he said he wouldnt play for Morey because he lied to him. Which is an emotional thing to say but not a legally binding statement that he wont play out his contract. Which is why he is going to win in arbitration. Plenty of ways to interpret that statement other than "I, James Harden, refuse to play for the 76ers this coming season

@@WoTMike1989 I guess Harden's past doesn't help him tbf. Showing up to work not being in shape is technically also not fulfilling his contract. I don't really know enough about this particular Philadelphia situation though

Facts, Andre thinks Rudy has done more damage to the CBA than Harden lmao

biggest problem with these podcasts is every one of them consistently agree with each other, do not call out anyone, rarely ever see the perspective from anyone but a players perspective

The current NBA has a culture of no accountability and all self-glorification. Harden is absolutely in the wrong, yet these dudes will side with him no matter what.

Lol exactly that stuff started leaking around Christmas

Probably a negotiation tactic. A lot of the time media outlets are used as mouthpieces for players or ownership or whoever wants to spin a narrative a certain way.

This guy gets it ^

I mean you can never be too sure. I always just took it as him trying to maintain the level of bargaining power by showing he still had some other “offers” if the Sixers thought they could low ball him

@@BigPurp9 Well, Houston showed him and the Sixers what his true market value was

That would be great. Unfortunately, I think the nba players union has too much power. The owners need to act more like the nfl in my opinion (e.g., cut throat)

Nah, I don't agree with your statement. You have to meet a certain criteria to even qualify for a supermax contract, that's collectively bargained between the owners and the players Union. So I don't think players should lose that just because they want to switch teams because they earned that supermax contract based on their performance on the court, regardless of what team they're on

Solid point, worth debating.

@@mrcoolguy2530owners act cut throat the players leave the nfl is a franchise driven league the nba is a player driven league

No players want to play for a crappy teams in pos cities..

He has leverage

I mean, he was traded there a clearly didn’t want to be there. Harden literally signed the 1-year deal of his own free will. It’s 2 completely different situations

@@JD-jz5guharden begged to get out of Brooklyn now look

Iggy didnt have a supermax,, easy contract to move..

@@JD-jz5gu Kelly Uber 20ppg cant do better than a vet min deal largely because of the new CBA. SO harden was looking at the new CBA rules sprung weeks before and suddenly he gets ghosted by 76ers management. Sorry, he singned because he had to given the weeks old rule changes that owners pushed through. What player did not see through that. Maxey has learned a ton about who he cant trust you can bet. Fans in a 40+ year drought are pissed off, but if this situation turns out in a mediocre work product players everywhere will take note. The players all know the bad owners and the better FA's are not going to want to play in philly given the 10+ years of drama and poor decision making.

Iggy is a current player & politician, saying what is true would get him fined to hell and back. That’s why he also could never verbalize, and just held his arm up, when JJ talked about not getting g fined.

just a question, what would be the unintended consequences of the super max? I wasn’t really sure and iggy didn’t really give an asnwer

@@fredrahi7662 that players would just sign the supermax and still ask out, because the extra money came with no caveats. The owners thought they could simply buy their happiness; when even they aren’t happy with the league earning them billions a year in extra wealth.

@@fredrahi7662 The unintended consequences are that because there is a cap in basketball if you have a player who makes up 35% of the salary cap unless he is a top 5 player it is almost impossible to be able to build a team around them. This makes it tough for the small market teams who have to overpay to keep their star player and then cant build around them. But players will NEVER EVER say another player was overpaid or that the supermax contract was bad because it put teams in a financial bind.

I won't be surprised if owners and players do shady stuff on a regular basis.

@@abouttime2569owners do for sure

U thot u ate

With how close Harden and Morey were it’s obvious he found out the owner was reneging on his future contract that Morey promised him. They dont just blindly wait till the season end. They get reassurances along the way.

@@chrisneely3069 players as well

I'm from Port he deserves to leave Portland we haven't tried getting any big players to help us

definitely some skewing, but Iggy is still sitting VP of the NBPA.... there's intentional bias.

Players enable other players

Ay, it's Rudy's fault for saying 'yes, please give me free money' like any of these fools would have turned it down.

100% agree. They act like the expectation was to say “nah… I don’t deserve to have generational wealth”

They are held accountable. They get fired.

He said he won’t play for Morey

Thanks, agreed, but whats funny with andres gesture at 6:40? I want go get it and laugh, but cant figure it out!

Must be an inside joke. I didn’t get it either

It’s JJ, he says whatever he needs to so that people like him. Half of his tenure on ESPN has been him trying to put on a show.

He said he won’t work with a liar (Morey).. meaning he wants the sixers to rid of him. You thought you were being smart

No, you thought you were being smart@@nickjones5495

​@@nickjones5495 The Sixers do not have to fire him if they don't want to. This doesn't give Harden the right to refuse to uphold the contract... You thought you were being smart... lmao

@@LegionOfEclaires who said they did? Boy get tf on

He signed the contract in good faith he was going to be traded not tricked

Owners got the money, players are trying to defend themselves and change the business game cause like Andre said on the full clip, players are looked at as pawns to the owners.

@@lilaznballaz1022 don’t sign a contract you can’t uphold. It’s simple. The players sign and then get pissy when their employer doesn’t get rid of them for scraps in return. These players are all delusional and have 0 sense of how business works. The culture of NBA players now is anti-accountability.

You gotta speak English, the NBA world doesn’t understand FAX. 💯🔥

Nothing but facts, nba doesn’t want to develop the players they have if they don’t fit whatever is the successfull team, which I think is ridiculous

Not necessarily for him but for the future maybe...like let say a MVP caliber player wants a trade he should get it ..

@@chinoxSDhow many trades he want? Maybe he should win something first then demand

@@ImGearsBeastwhen your skilled you can make demands!😮

​@@realamerican8069his skills are declined, and he's a 4th quarter choker...he doesn't have any leverage anymore

@@goodymob9638Clippers' front office seems to disagree with you, seeing as they traded for him. Perhaps you should apply to become the GM of a NBA team since you seem to know something they don't about player talent. (Harden is still a play-off choke-artist though)

-- players and teams should be fined if the player demands a trade. Someone messed up somewhere. So if a player doesn't want to play and is under contract, then he shouldn't get paid AND pay a (smaller) fine on top of it. The team? They can use some of the player money to offset their fine but will still pay a fine and/or lose a pick -- or get bumped down in their draft pick. IDK, just trying to figure out a penalty for every party.

@@jlui21 players and teams need to be fined more

The problem is I think Harden was lied to a take a discount. Is that ok to do by the managers?

These owners OWN the team. How is it not their fault?!

Exactly. Harden opted in because he didn’t get the offers he expected. Now he’s mad the Sixers didn’t offer him the supermax? The market don’t lie.

Exactly!

So did Durant and Kyrie. The difference is we only hear it’s a problem when it’s Harden.

I am so sick of idiots like you, seriously how do you live in this world being this dumb. Houston fired his coach and traded Westbrook for the corpse of John Wall. They gave up and Harden isn’t a coward like Dame, he wanted a title and he could see Rockets weren’t going for that anymore. Nets were unstoppable, even after Hardens injury they still would have been unbeatable but there was too much drama there. They hired one of the worst coaches in history and in the second year they didn’t put a good team around them which wouldn’t have mattered so much but Kyrie wouldn’t play. With Kyrie being an unknown and Durant being injured you should go back and look at who Harden was playing with. How dare you say he quit on them when he badly did his hamstring which should have kept him out for 3 months and he went out there on one leg, there was a serious chance he could have done his acl and he still went out there. There was also something wrong with that organisation since all 3 of their stars requested trades. Philly don’t deserve Harden, first Embiid let him down badly, he was awful in the play offs, really awful but no one wants to talk about that. Harden carried that team by himself and they refuse to give him the contract he deserves. They can also get anything for Maxey, he has so much value and they refuse to trade him. You could make a serious big 3 but Maxey is untouchable???? How dumb can a team be. Maxey is a decent player but he lacks so much and he will never be a superstar.

@@TheNickhammondfacts

​@@TheNickhammondWhataboutism is strong with you f00l. Irving and Durant has a lot of heat for the decisions, that doesn't excuse harden. Mor0n.😂

Stupid comment 😂 delete it!

Crazy part is even if Morey promised him anything he would probably have it if he didn’t choke in the playoffs AGAIN. all this wouldn’t even be happening 😂

@@kaekae1782 oh yea regardless of who said what there is enough blame to go around for both sides. Could have been handled alot better by the 6ers

Exactly

I can only imagine he meant the team should be fined for Harden's representative behaviour... meaning detrimental to the league rather than for punishing something that can't be proved. You treat them as though they're the same entity. Otherwise you're right, can't fine someone without an established offence.

if the fans know this and I expect they do, Imagine what the best prospective FA's know, inside scuttlebut. I am betting the 76ers organization is viewed as s dumpser fire tor a decade. Who actually wants to play there? Surely not Damian Lillard. Horrible player development, mostly bad coaches and drafting, and the fans run the players out of town in frustration. The Joel Embiid is this far along on his career and he doesnt make others better is a travesty. IF you want to run the offense through your best player he MUST be a good passer. He doesnt have to be jokic, a lamcus adridge level passer would make him the best player in the league. As it is he might be top 5. All the greats had to be good passers, the 76ers dont need a 7; kobe Briant, IF Embiid were a more skilled Tim Duncan, he would be a much better Impact. His passing vision needs work, not his one on two game.