Fans, We Were Wrong About Tobias Harris
Tobias Harris may have solidified himself as a 2021 All-Star as voting opened this past week.
Tobias Harris has been off to an unbelievable start this season and he followed it up with a game-winning shot against the defending NBA champions Los Angeles Lakers.
Doc Rivers has given Tobias Harris a new life in Philadelphia and has perhaps saved the massive 5-year/$180 million contract Harris received just a couple of years ago.
The Rivers-Harris combo has worked before and seems to be working again.
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The New York native has been a journeyman for the majority of his career. Splitting time between the Bucks, Magic, Pistons, and Clippers but has never seemed to be able to find a home. When Harris got traded to the Sixers, it looked like he had finally found a home with the Sixers having so much cap room to play with at the time. Harris got the years and the money but was on an Al Horford-ish path out of town until this year.
It is certainly early in the season but after a ton of criticism (deservingly so), it is time for us to admit that we were wrong about Tobias Harris.
Harris is averaging almost 20 points and better yet, shooting an unbelievable 47% from three. He has been everything and more us Sixers fans had hoped for following his contract extension. It is not to say that Tobias Harris is worth all of the money he received from Elton Brand and company, but he is certainly making a case for it.
The Sixers were in need of a third star to compliment Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, it looks like they had him all along.
If Tobias Harris keeps up his early-season performance, he will likely head to his first career All-Star game.
We knew Tobias Harris needed to step up under Doc Rivers, and he’s done it so far.
The Sixers are first in the Eastern Conference, have the best home record yet again and a lot of that is owed to Tobias Harris’ performance.
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