Former NBA MVP James Harden has been criticized for demanding a trade to the Los Angeles Clippers and then failing to produce at a high level once the deal is finalized.

The 33-year-old is looking to join his third NBA team in less than two years in the hopes of winning a championship. Harden scored just 22 points in Games 6 and 7 as the 76ers were eliminated from the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs by the Boston Celtics.

Harden’s stunning comments calling 76ers general manager Daryl Morey a “liar” further severed his relationship with Philadelphia. For the past decade, Morey has served as Harden’s general manager.

“When Harden decided he was done in Houston, he pouted and got his way,” ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt said. The same thing happened in Brooklyn, and he determined that was it. The nearly 34-year-old has expressed a desire to leave Philadelphia for the third time, but no one seems interested in offering him “enough” to keep him in the city.

“The glaring disappearances in massive spots in the playoffs, that’s on Harden,” Van Pelt said. And who’s standing up to donate a load for that, knowing that if it goes south, as it so often does, he’ll simply declare he wants out again?

According to ESPN, the 76ers have stopped trade talks with the Clippers over Harden, a ten-time NBA All-Star, because no progress has been made toward a transaction. With Harden and Joel Embiid, the MVP of the NBA this season, Philadelphia thinks it has a legitimate shot at the NBA Finals.

“If we don’t get either a very good player or something that we can turn into a very good player, then we’re just not going to do it,” Morey said last month. If James were to change his mind, it would make everyone very happy. However, at the present time, he would rather be exchanged, and we are working to accommodate that.

Both NBA legends, Tracy McGrady and Shaquille O’Neal, have spoken out against Harden, with O’Neal posting McGrady’s criticisms on his Instagram. “I don’t understand for the life of me what James Harden is doing,” McGrady told GQ. “Why are you making an exit?” To me, that makes no sense at all. Furthermore, I consider all of his former teammates. James has probably played with more future Hall of Famers than anyone else in the game, yet he has yet to win a championship.

What he’s trying to find, I have no idea. And maybe there’s some b.s. going on behind the scenes that we’re not aware of. For me, it defies logic to leave the league’s most valuable player and the Eastern Conference, where you can still compete for a title. Something more profound than what you already know is required. Just get over it.