Harden, the big contract is gone! How much is the ability to support the regular season?

On May 4, in the first round of the NBA playoffs, the Clippers lost to the Nuggets 101-120 and were eliminated. This is their third consecutive year of suspension in the first round of the playoffs.

It is worth noting that James Harden was lost again in the tiebreak game. He played for 35 minutes in the game. Although he gave 13 assists, his offensive performance was too eye-catching and he only scored 7 points!

I thought James Harden would get a long-term contract with an average annual salary of 5 million this summer. Judging from the performance tonight, this big contract is probably overwhelming!

Looking back on this season, Leonard, the Clippers' star, missed 45 regular season games, but James Harden led the Clippers into the playoffs, and he was still ranked fifth in the West.

James Harden not only has strong regular season record-keeping skills, but also an older model worker in the league. At the age of 36, he played in the 79 regular season, averaging 22.8 points, 5.8 rebounds, 8.7 assists and 1.5 steals per game, and was selected as the All-Star again.

But in the playoffs, in the two key battles of G5 and G7, they scored 11 points and 7 points respectively, which once again confirmed the weakness at critical moments in the playoffs.

Including this game, Harden has scored no more than 4 goals in 55 playoff sports games, and his personal performance is extremely unstable, just like opening a blind box. Although there are winners, the probability is very low.

It can be seen that in the playoffs where Harden's physical strength was halfway through the offensive firepower, his face was at best a fixed-point shooter!

However, James Harden is one of the extremely scarce resources in the league based on his regular season bottoming ability alone.

No surprise, James Harden will step out of the player option with an annual salary of 35 million this summer. What is the annual salary of the new contract? Lao Liu predicts that 45 million is the highest limit value.