With James Harden Joining Sixers, Who is the Pressure is On?

With the massive commerce the introduced James Harden to the Sixers in alternate for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round picks, comes expectations.  With expectations comes strain.

So now that the deal is finished, who’s below essentially the most strain to take the Sixers to the subsequent stage? The staff has made its option to the second-round of the NBA playoffs a number of instances, however hasn’t been capable of finding its method again to the Jap Convention Finals since that magical run in 2001.

So now the strain turns to Doc Rivers.

When the staff makes a commerce to carry a participant like Harden to the staff, coupled with a participant who’s taking part in at an MVP stage, they’re anticipating large issues and its as much as Rivers to get all of the items to suit collectively.

Embiid with Harden. Harden with Maxey, Who will step in behind Embiid with Drummond gone?  Who will substitute the capturing of Curry?

These are simply a few of the questions that Rivers wants to search out solutions to with simply 26 video games remaining earlier than the playoffs start.

With strain comes rumors, and there’s already one making its method round league circles within the aftermath of the blockbuster deal. This one comes from veteran NBA reporter Marc Stein, which states that Sixers President Daryl Morey is already trying to his former head coach in Houston, Mike D’Antoni, to switch Rivers on the sidelines.

“The conspiracy idea already making the rounds in league teaching circles holds that Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey will finally need Mike D’Antoni to take over within the sizzling seat for Philadelphia’s new Joel Embiid/James Harden tag staff after D’Antoni’s offensive creativity helped catapult Harden to a few scoring titles in Houston.”

D’Antoni was a former assistant on Brett Brown’s employees for half a season earlier than heading to Houston to be paired with Harden.  The duo introduced the Rockets to new heights, with Harden wining three league scoring titles in a row and a league MVP with D’Antoni accountable for the offense.

Stein notes that it’s a “conspiracy idea” and Sixers reporter Kyle Neubeck of Phillyvoice.com confirms that there is no such thing as a validity to it right now.

Take into accout, Rivers is within the second yr of a reported five-year, $40 million contract, which might imply Josh Harris can be paying some huge cash to get out of the deal and pay one other coach to come back in and coach the staff.

One other factor to think about, D’antoni is 70 years previous, how for much longer does he actually need to journey round, working a NBA staff.

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