WATCH: Tyrese Maxey wouldn’t let James Harden leave the court in peace after the Sixers beat the Clippers 110-108

I am simply blogging what I saw on my TV like the rest of you and what I saw was Tyrese Maxey refusing to let James Harden walk to the locker room like a normal adult who just missed two game winning threes in the final possession.

The buzzer sounded, the Sixers won 110 to 108, and Harden was ready to exit the building, head down, thoughts racing, beard drooping. That is when Maxey appeared like the most energetic little brother on earth and absolutely refused to leave him alone.

Tyrese Maxey drops 39, sends Clippers back to LA empty-handed as Sixers rally with a 110–108 victory

For reference, Harden is a former Sixer. He bricked two potential game winner attempts on the same possession. He had a chance to silence the Philly crowd but instead he got reincarnated into a future meme and left with a loss to his old team and more importantly the apprentice he once mentored.

See for yourself: Tyrese Maxey hawks down James Harden

Miss these two on the same team pic.twitter.com/E8FO2LOoqm

— J🐐 (@SixersJustin) November 18, 2025

This was not a normal postgame dap up. Maxey was smiling, chirping, invading Harden’s personal space and delivered the exact opposite of whatever Harden wanted in that moment.

Normally, I flip the channel right after the buzzer and move on with my night. Since it involved Harden losing to Maxey in Philadelphia, I stayed glued to the screen like it was the Zapruder film.

Maxey stayed glued to Harden like the Annoying Little Brother From Hell

Watch Harden’s shoulders drop the second he realizes it is Maxey again. That is the look of a 36 year old man who just wants to go home and instead has a human Golden Retriever insisting on talking about the game like they are still teammates.

Harden wanted silence. Maxey wanted conversation. And Philadelphia wanted every second of it. James has been on a legitimate scoring tear recently. That part is true. What is also true is that Maxey walked out of that arena with the win and the better performance. Here are the numbers, kept simple:

Tyrese Maxey
39 points
6 assists
3 rebounds

James Harden
28 points
5 assists
6 rebounds

As someone who has lost to a younger sibling in driveway basketball, I know that specific form of humiliation. Harden is a first ballot Hall of Famer. He also just got hunted off the court by the kid he used to mentor.

I do not know what Harden wanted from that postgame moment. Probably a tunnel, some quiet, and a flight home. What he got was Tyrese Maxey attached to him like a wireless microphone.

And thank God. Because this is exactly why Philadelphia fell in love with Maxey in the first place. Unstoppable energy. Zero bitterness. Maximum chaos. A player who does not take a single second of this game for granted.

The Sixers are done banking on James Harden to lead this team. The future already arrived, and he just spent the end of a nationally televised game bothering his former mentor into emotional retirement.

Philadelphia is in good hands. Tyrese Maxey will see to that personally, whether opponents want to hear about it or not.

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