Charania added that "conversations aren't fluid as of now."<\/p>\n
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Morey then spoke to The Athletic<\/em> to try and put out the spot fire.<\/p>\n "We are not trading Ben Simmons \u2014 he is an important part of our future," Morey said.<\/p>\n Harden is a superior player to Simmons but the Aussie has youth and a cheaper contract on his side.<\/p>\n The Rockets face an uncertain future as Morey, coach Mike D'Antoni and All-Star Russell Westbrook all moved on before Harden's trade demands went public.<\/p>\n The 76ers, meanwhile, have tweaked their supporting cast around Simmons and Joel Embiid while adding championship coach Doc Rivers.<\/p>\n ESPN's<\/em> Adrian Wojnarowski reported that "while the Sixers have signaled a willingness to include All-Star guard Ben Simmons in trade packages for Harden, those talks have come nowhere close to a deal."<\/p>\n Wojnarowski added that "several playoff calibre teams in the Eastern and Western conferences" were interested in giving up significant assets to acquire Harden, the league's most unstoppable offensive talent.<\/p>\n "It is interesting because James Harden is two years away from being 33 and asking for a max contract," ESPN's<\/em> Zach Lowe said on a recent podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n "And Ben Simmons is under contract for the next five seasons.<\/p>\n "He's 24 and he just made an All-NBA team.<\/p>\n "James Harden is better, but Ben Simmons is seven years younger, under team control at a cheaper price for much longer…<\/p>\n "I could see the Sixers saying 'no, he's seven years younger and his contract is better. You get nothing more than Ben Simmons and you'll like it and that's it.'<\/p>\n "And maybe they never talk, maybe it never happens…<\/p>\n "I don't know what the end game is but even saying all that, I'd be surprised that at some point the Sixers don't have talks about it."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey has denied reports that Australian superstar Ben Simmons is being made available in a blockbuster NBA trade […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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