Montrezl Harrell: So like I said, that whole time I experienced with the Sixers? I hated it, bro. I swear I hated it. And the thing about is, it got even worse because you see when me and Doc had words, and both times he really just discredited me as a player; like, he basically told me in the situation with me of coming with him to the Sixers, I had no other teams that wanted me which was a lie. I could’ve gone to Boston. The only reason why I didn’t go to Boston is because they basically told me that I have to be comfortable with not playing games and where I was at in my career, I looked at like, Bro, I need to be on the floor to actually prove that I still have something to give to this game and I can still play like it. I should’ve taken that situation and went to Boston honestly, but they had Al Horford and the young kid that they traded off to… the young kid that had the knee injury with the dreads. What’s his name? Robert Williams. They had him. So in that situation I’m feeling like, That’s tough to say I’ma get DNP’s and y’all already got Al Horford who’s an established vet and using the young fella Rob. That’s kinda tough. I need to be on the floor playing… It was nothing else with them. It was one of those situations where I felt like the amount of games we didn’t know that we might not have played in, that’s tough to bank on that. And then you have them over there “telling” me that I will play 15-18 minutes. Which one would you choose?
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Do you have a desire to return to the NBA? Montrezl Harrell: Listen… the NBA is something that I would definitely love to go back to but at the end of the day, where I’m at in my life you gotta understand that I’ve had a great career and the way that the game looks at it when it comes to the NBA game, once you have an injury they start to write you off. And so what it happened that my injury was my knee with my ACL and my meniscus, it was basically to the point where they [the 76ers] wrote me off and I don’t have any control over that, man… but I do have control over my life and what I feel like I still have to give this game and I know that I’m nowhere near done. It’s not really up to me. I feel like that I have to go out here and kill myself for y’all to know what I bring to this game and know what type of player I am. Yes I had a knee injury, but this isn’t the old times. The way that the game is now with the different type of doctors they have; everything that they have since back when people used to do that is not that to this day and I went on a tremendous training with my rehab, I was able to get cleared and back on the court before the NBA season actually was over! I just knew me as a player how I played, I wasn’t in any shape to help any team in the playoff run. But I was cleared before the NBA season was even up but like I said, with these types of injuries, that’s just how they look at you and write you off, man. -via ScoopB.com / June 12, 2025
Montrezl Harrell: But at the end of the day I’ma play with the love of basketball and like I said, I know I still have a lot of years left on my body and still left to give to this game but at the same time I’m NOT about to go out and kill myself out and be underappreciated to the point where it’s like, I’m starting to look at the game like, Bro, do I really even want to come into work? Because I’ve had those days when I was playing with the Sixers and the way that they handle business and the way they did me in that situation there I had days where I walked into the gym and I HATED being in the gym and that’s just not the player that I am. That’s never the player I’ve been. People know me from playing all around the world in the summer not getting paid a dollar — Drew League, AVL, Danny Rumph… any league it was, ‘Trez was in it. So, I’m a player that loves to play the game but for me to have and be blessed to make a paycheck from this game and for me to go to a workspace where I completely love to just go and be free in and actually hate it? It did something to me and I don’t want to have to go back to that, man. I was blessed to be able to be in a situation where they welcomed me with open arms in Australia, man. It was amazing to just be a part of that whole culture and that vibe and actually be a part of the NBL and how they not catered to me, but actually appreciate the things that I do for them on the court. I couldn’t ask for anything more, man; coming out of the headspace and places that I was in dealing with how my year was handled with the Sixers into going into a whole knee injury, man. Like, I was in a dark place and it really just helped me to get back to the light really. -via ScoopB.com / June 12, 2025
The Adelaide 36ers have announced the re-signing of Montrezl Harrell on a new one-year contract. The 31-year-old big man out of Louisville made his NBL debut last season, averaging 20.5 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2 assists, and 1.1 blocks per game. -via Sportando / May 30, 2025