{"id":1564849,"date":"2023-05-14T13:16:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1564849"},"modified":"2023-05-14T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:16:46","slug":"highest-paid-player-sixers-somehow-isnt-joel-embiid-james-harden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/highest-paid-player-sixers-somehow-isnt-joel-embiid-james-harden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highest-Paid Player on the Sixers Somehow Isn't Joel Embiid or James Harden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> are one win away from their first Eastern Conference Finals appearance since 2001, and the two-headed monster of Joel Embiid<\/a> and James Harden<\/a> is the main reason why. Embiid is averaging 27.6 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 3.2 blocks per game against the Boston Celtics, and Harden scored 45 points in Game 1 and 42 points in Game 4 to lead the Sixers to victories in both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Tobias Harris has scored just 68 points in the first six games of the series, and he scored a measly two points in Philadelphia's crushing Game 6 loss at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Guess which player the Sixers are paying the most money to this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 76ers are paced by two superstars in Joel Embiid and James Harden, but that's not reflected on the team's balance sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the 2022-23 season, Embiid will make a total of $34,466,770. Harden, after taking a pay cut in the offseason, will make $33,000,000. Those figures rank 20th and 28th in the NBA this year, respectively, per Spotrac<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, neither Embiid nor Harden is the highest-paid player on the Sixers. That label belongs to Tobias Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harris signed a five-year, $180 million extension in 2019. The forward will make $37,633,050 this season, which is the highest mark on the team and the 13th-highest in the league. Playing under one of the richest contracts in the sport, Harris averaged 14.7 points and 5.8 rebounds per game this season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the second-round playoff series against the Celtics, Harris has reached double-digit points just three times in six games. He mustered an embarrassing two points on 1-of-7 shooting in Game 6, a game the 76ers could've won if he simply put up a mediocre performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\nTobias Harris makes more money than Joel Embiid and James Harden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Sixers can't win Game 7 without Tobias Harris<\/h2>\n\n\n\n