Charles Barkley played eight seasons in Philadelphia and expert the fat of in no way profitable a championship with the Sixers.
It is why the TNT analyst scoffed at James Harden saying this 7 days that he is not sensation any strain entering the playoffs subsequent his midseason trade from the Nets.
“James Harden, you reported you don’t sense no force? Man, you much better think all over again,” Barkley claimed on the air Friday night time. “Them people in Philadelphia ain’t gonna be getting you going out there and playing negative.
“So you can sit — I do not want to connect with it deflection or whatsoever — you bought a lot more stress on you than any player in the playoffs. Fantastic luck, now, ‘cause my Sixers, I appreciate y’all Sixers and my Suns, but James, do not explain to that lie.”
The Sixers, who haven’t gained an NBA title considering that 1983, enter their to start with-round playoff collection from the Raptors as the No. 4 seed in the Japanese Convention. They went 19-9 pursuing Harden’s acquisition from the Nets with Paul Millsap on Feb. 10 in trade for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry and Andre Drummond.
“Pressure? No, I really feel excellent,” Harden advised reporters on Thursday. “I’m ready to hoop. There’s nothing to it.”
Harden averaged 21. points and 10.5 helps above 21 appearances next the trade, but biut he and MVP prospect Joel Embiid are in search of their initial championship rings in their respective NBA occupations.
“I inform him to be himself. He’s been carrying out a wonderful task of currently being the playmaker, but we want him to be aggressive and genuinely score the ball, specially versus Toronto,” Embiid claimed. “He just has to be himself, and not worry about people speaking about tension.”
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