{"id":95142,"date":"2024-09-10T22:50:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T02:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=95142"},"modified":"2024-09-10T22:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T02:50:58","slug":"nba-montrezl-harrell-put-troubles-behind-him-nbl-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/09\/10\/nba-montrezl-harrell-put-troubles-behind-him-nbl-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Former 6MOY Looks To Put Troubles Behind Him With NBL Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA veteran Montrezl Harrell<\/a> has found a new home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Agreeing going unsigned this offseason, the eight-year veteran has \u201cagreed to a deal with the Adelaide 36ers,\u201d per ESPN insider Olgun Uluc. Harrell \u201cwill be an injury replacement for Jarell Martin,\u201d who \u201cis still recovering from a patellar tendon injury and isn’t expected to be available until later in the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, \u201cHarrell will be on a short-term deal\u2026 but there’s potential for him to remain with the team even when Martin is healthy. The 36ers would need to deactivate a local player in order to accommodate that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harrell beat out a shortlist of potential additions \u2014former NBA forwards Justin Jackson<\/a> and Thon Maker<\/a> among them \u2014to latch on with Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Montrezl Harrell Looks To Put Troubles Behind Him With NBL Deal<\/h2>\n

Harrell hasn\u2019t played an NBA game since Apr. 2023.<\/p>\n

This may seem strange for someone who was named the Sixth Man of the Year in 2020. At 30 years old, he\u2019s not exactly entering the prime of his basketball career. Nonetheless, players don\u2019t typically decline rapidly after they peak.<\/p>\n

Harrell, who averaged 18.6 points and 7.1 rebounds per game in his award-winning season, is no exception. That\u2019s what made him averaging just 5.6 points and 2.8 rebounds per game in 2022-23 \u2014his lone season with the Philadelphia 76ers \u2014inexplicable. When considering that he posted 13.7 points and 7.0 rebounds per game as a starter that season, it\u2019s even more difficult to fathom.<\/p>\n

Yet, Harrell\u2019s compelling article for The Player\u2019s Tribune shines a light on his downward spiral. He\u2019s always been a vocal and passionate player. However, he didn\u2019t channel his energy properly<\/a> after his grandmother passed away.<\/p>\n

He lashed out at former Los Angeles Clippers teammate Paul George<\/a> in the NBA Bubble, burning a bridge there. Two years later, while with the Charlotte Hornets, he was given a citation for marijuana possession. Even without the headlines being sensationalized, it was a bad look at a bad time. The next year, he and Sixers head coach Nick Nurse bumped heads about his usage.<\/p>\n

If that wasn\u2019t bad enough, Harrell tore his ACL and meniscus last offseason. He would then miss all of 2023-24 while rehabbing.<\/p>\n

Are His NBA Days Finished?<\/h3>\n

Like many players whose career took a turn for the worst, Harrell still wants to return to the NBA. Understandably, the warrior would rather go out on his shield.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized I\u2019m not ready to hang this game up \u2014 and I have a lot of game left in me. Having a tough season, blowing out my knee \u2026 I can\u2019t accept that ending, man. That can\u2019t be what people remember me by.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He may get that chance. DeMarcus Cousins<\/a>, a player once described as a headcase because of his misplaced passion, received several chances. Teams even offered him roles after he suffered multiple injuries.<\/p>\n

Cousins has since retired from the NBA<\/a>, believing that teams refuse to sign him because of his misperceptions about his personality. Nonetheless, it doesn\u2019t seem like Harrell has quite gotten to that point. Depending on how well he plays during his NBL stint, he could be back in the NBA by next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NBA veteran Montrezl Harrell has found a new home. Agreeing going unsigned this offseason, the eight-year veteran has \u201cagreed to a deal with the Adelaide 36ers,\u201d per ESPN insider Olgun Uluc. Harrell \u201cwill be an injury replacement for Jarell Martin,\u201d who \u201cis still recovering from a patellar tendon injury and isn’t expected to be available […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":95146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1608,7,27,3,13],"tags":[1398,297,4745,1000],"class_list":["post-95142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-basketball","category-hornets","category-clippers","category-news","category-76ers","tag-montrezl-harrell","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-injuries","tag-nbl"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}