Charles Barkley performed eight seasons in Philadelphia and skilled the burden of by no means profitable a championship with the Sixers.
It's why the TNT analyst scoffed at James Harden saying this week that he isn’t feeling any strain getting into the playoffs following his midseason commerce from the Nets.
“James Harden, you mentioned you don’t really feel no strain? Man, you higher assume once more,” Barkley mentioned on the air Friday night time. “Them individuals in Philadelphia ain’t gonna be having you going on the market and enjoying unhealthy.
“So you possibly can sit — I don’t need to name it deflection or no matter — you bought extra strain on you than any participant within the playoffs. Good luck, now, ‘trigger my Sixers, I like y’all Sixers and my Suns, however James, don’t inform that lie.”
The Sixers, who haven’t received an NBA title since 1983, enter their first-round playoff collection towards the Raptors because the No. 4 seed within the Jap Convention. They went 19-9 following Harden’s acquisition from the Nets with Paul Millsap on Feb. 10 in alternate for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry and Andre Drummond.
“Strain? No, I really feel good,” Harden advised reporters on Thursday. “I’m able to hoop. There’s nothing to it.”
Harden averaged 21.0 factors and 10.5 assists over 21 appearances following the commerce, however biut he and MVP candidate Joel Embiid are looking for their first championship rings of their respective NBA careers.
“I inform him to be himself. He’s been doing an awesome job of being the playmaker, however we'd like him to be aggressive and actually rating the ball, particularly towards Toronto,” Embiid mentioned. “He simply needs to be himself, and never fear about individuals speaking about strain.”
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