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First Take

Hour 2: Rock or Harden Place?

First Take

ESPN Radio

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4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Stephen A. Smith, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, Amber Wilson, Harry Douglas, No.2 ranked UFC Bantamweight fighter Sean O'Malley and undisputed Super Welterweight world champion Jermell Charlo join the show to discuss their respective upcoming fights, if Anthony Richardson being named the Colts week 1 starter is a mistake and what Mad Dog is mad about this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, two days after his report of the Philadelphia 76ers ended trade talks involving

0:20.7

James Harden, the 10-time All-Star Guard, RIP, 76ers president Darryl Moray over the weekend.

0:25.8

Sources told our Adrian Wojtnerowski that the 76ers planned to bring Harden back to training

0:30.4

camp and for the start of the season setting up an uncomfortable situation with the unhappy

0:35.6

star.

0:36.6

Here's our Ramona Shellborn with the current situation.

0:41.2

Somebody said to me yesterday, this is only the beginning.

0:43.7

This is just the beginning of what James Harden is going to do to make life very uncomfortable

0:49.6

for the Philadelphia 76ers going into training camp.

0:52.8

And I think the expectation with Harden is, you know, Ben Simmons, they went through this

0:57.5

with Ben Simmons.

0:58.5

He didn't show up to camp.

0:59.5

He left money on the table.

1:01.5

That's not going to happen here with James Harden.

1:03.3

Ben Simmons didn't say anything, but Simmons stayed home, right?

1:06.2

Like if you heard anything, it was, it was not loud.

1:09.0

This was, with a microphone, let me repeat myself.

1:12.4

And so I think the sixers have to ask themselves, what are we prepared for, how we handle this?

1:17.4

Is there any way that they can get through this and still have a productive season?

1:23.8

All right, here we have a special guest right now, if we could get that guest on the line.

1:28.0

We do?

1:29.0

Yes.

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