76ers' James Harden says it's too late to fix relationship with team

There's no hope for James Harden and the Philadelphia 76ers to work out their differences, the star guard says.

The 10-time All-Star requested a trade from the team earlier this offseason, but nothing materialized.

The team plans to bring him into training camp.

When making an appearance on a radio show in Houston, where he used to play, Harden was asked if it is "too late" to fix the relationship with his team.

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"I think so," he replied.

Harden recently made headlines for calling team president Daryl Morey a "liar," adding he "will never be a part of an organization that (Morey's) a part of."

It's unclear what prompted Harden's comments, but the situation is being investigated by the NBA. 

Morey, as an executive with the Houston Rockets, caused a stir in 2019 when he posted a pro-Hong Kong message as protesters demonstrated against a law that would allow extradition of fugitives wanted in China. The protests turned violent.

That prompted a blackout of the NBA in China, and the league's relationship with the country has not been the same since.

At the time, the NBA was in the middle of a preseason tour that included the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets. Advertisements of the games were taken down. The Rockets were in Japan at the time, and Harden was among team members who broke from Morey’s tweets.

Morey, who spent eight seasons with Harden with the Rockets, said he was "attempting to honor" Harden's trade request but only if Philadelphia receives significant compensation in return.

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"I do have a long relationship with him. I’m attempting to honor that," Morey said in a radio interview with 97.5 The Fanatic in July

In his two seasons in Philadelphia, Harden has averaged 21.0 points, 10.6 assists and 6.4 rebounds per game alongside Joel Embiid, who was named the NBA’s MVP last season. 

The Sixers failed to reach the Eastern Conference finals for the 22nd consecutive season when they lost in seven games to the Boston Celtics in May.

With the team once again falling short of expectations, the Sixers' front office made an immediate change, firing head coach Doc Rivers after three seasons and replacing him with Nick Nurse.

Harden turns 34 Saturday and is entering his 15th NBA season.

Hunter Biden’s defense lawyers vowed to put President Biden on the stand

Hunter Biden's legal team once vowed to prosecutors that they would have President Biden take the stand to testify as a fact witness for the defense if his son faced criminal charges.

Biden's then-attorney Chris Clark made the claim in a letter to prosecutors in October 2022, shortly after news leaked that the Justice Department had enough evidence against the first son to move forward with an indictment.

Clark warned that if the DOJ did bring charges relating to Hunter's alleged purchase of a firearm while addicted to cocaine, the president would take the stand.

"President Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial," Clark wrote in a 32-page letter obtained by Politico.

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Clark withdrew from Hunter's defense team last week, though it is unclear whether the decision came in relation to the leak of the document to Politico.

Hunter pleaded not guilty to federal tax and gun charges in late July after a previous plea agreement fell apart. Republicans had widely criticized the previous deal as far too lenient.

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In the letter, Clark attempted to use the prospect of Biden's testimony to ward off prosecution by the DOJ. He argued that moving forward with a criminal trial would force Biden to testify in conflict with his own Justice Department, something he said would result in a "constitutional crisis."

"This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis," Clark wrote.

When Clark withdrew as Hunter's attorney last week, he cited the potential of being summoned as a witness as the central reason.

Under Delaware Rule of Professional Conduct, which Clark pointed to in his filing to withdraw, "a lawyer shall not act as an advocate at a trial in which the lawyer is likely to be a necessary witness unless ... disqualification of the lawyer would work substantial hardship on the client."

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"Based on recent developments, it appears that the negotiation and drafting of the plea agreement and diversion agreement will be contested, and Mr. Clark is a percipient witness to those issues," the filing continued.

Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax,as part of plea deal under which he would have avoided jail time on a felony gun charge.

Judge Maryellen Noreika of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware declined to accept the terms of the agreement, calling it unconstitutional, "not standard" and "different from what I normally see."

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