The whereabouts of the 76-player Harden is undoubtedly one of the biggest highlights in the offseason. He and the 76-player could not reach a consensus to apply for a deal due to the renewal of the contract. This is the third time he has applied for a deal in three years, the first two transaction applications directly cost Harden more than $0.1 billion in salary.
Affected by the epidemic, the wage cap in 2021 dropped from the estimated 0.115 billion dollars to 0.106 billion dollars. Therefore, when the rocket provided Harden with an early renewal contract of 2 years and 0.103 billion years in 2020, harden’s agent persuaded him to renew the contract after the wage cap returned to steady growth, so Harden refused the 0.103 billion contract.
In essence, Harden gave up the 0.149 billion dollars fully guaranteed in 22-25 years in exchange for the chance to earn up to 0.3 billion dollars in 22-27 years, which is indeed reasonable because the alliance’s finance is indeed growing steadily, the wage cap is now increasing by 10% every year.
However, Harden then applied for a transaction to the rocket, not only losing the rocket’s renewal contract, but also making the wrong choice again in basketable nets.
In 2021, Harden refused a 3-year 0.161 billion-year renewal contract again so that he could renew the contract for 4 years and 0.223 billion years in the offseason and basketable nets. This contract enabled Harden to get 60 million annual salary at the age of 37, but then Harden applied for the transaction again and came to 76 people.
In 2022, Harden reduced his salary by 15 million to help the team sign Tucker and house. It was rumored that he had reached an agreement with the team-he could get compensation during the renewal of the long-term contract in 2023.
We all know the rest. 76 people were out in the second round of the playoffs. Harden’s renewal request was rejected, so he filed a transaction application for the third time in three years. But this time, his market is far less than before.
It is no exaggeration to say that Harden probably has lost the last chance to get a big contract.
