The Houston Rockets James Harden they wanted to in 2015 to Sergio Llull, whose draft rights they acquired from the Nuggets after Denver drafted him 34th in 2009. The Texas team was dying to get the player from Real Madridbecause in Madrid he himself showed up Daryl Moreythen General Manager of the Rockets.
The white legend even told the YouTube show last summer TIMEOUT – Basketball Channel that Harden personally called him to come to the Rockets, who offered him a three-year contract and 17 million dollarsas they pointed out then in the United States.
“I had a very good season and we were in a winning cycle. I was close to leaving, a delegation from the Rockets came and we went out to dinner. During dinner, they put James Harden on the phone. I left that dinner saying “I’m going”, I was almost convinced,” explained Llull.
“We told Madrid. Florentino called me and offered me a six-year contract with an increase, although still far from what the NBA offered. In the end, you put everything on a balance and my decision leaned towards staying,” the three-time Euroleague champion also said among other achievements.
However, the now star of Los Angeles Clippers He says he does not remember that call and even seems not to know who the Menorcan player is.
MD asked the ‘Beard’ last night about that call at the end of the game that the Clippers beat the Toronto Raptors in overtime (117-121) with 31 points and 10 assists from the 2018 MVP. After DAZN’s question the day before in the NBA game in Berlin to his former teammate Dwight Howard about ACB players – the center said he did not know who it was – it was a good opportunity to ask James Harden his version of the call.
This was the entire dialogue with the star and his bewildered responses.
-James, yesterday at the NBA game in Germany your former teammate Dwight Howard was asked about some players from the Spanish league. One of the players he was asked about was Sergio Llull.
“Who?” Harden asked.
-Sergio Llull-
“I don’t remember,” said the star despite the fact that the point guard’s name was repeated several times.
-Don’t you remember? He told a story in the summer, he remembered a story that Houston wanted to sign him and you called him personally to convince him to go to Houston, but he finally decided to stay at Real Madrid.
“I don’t know the story,” Harden said to settle the matter, without much desire to talk about it despite being in a good mood due to his performance commanding the comeback of the Clippers who started 18-4 down.
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In defense of the point guard, it must be said that in the summer it will be 11 years of that history and that, in the bubble that NBA players sometimes live in, it is not so strange that American players do not know iconic Euroleague players as they have been. Sergio Llull.
