PHILADELPHIA — Nothing in Daryl Morey’s 32-minute, end-of-season eulogy Monday chilled Sixers fans more than his tribute to everybody’s favorite scapegoat:

“Tobias, for sure, can be a contributing player on a contender. … We have interest in all our free agents.”

Morey cannot be serious.

Tobias Harris scored zero points in the last game of his five-year, $180 million contract. It was the first time in his 396 games as a 76er that he did not score.

He can’t come back from this. He can never earn another paycheck from Josh Harris’ (no relation) $8.4 billion. If the Sixers re-sign Tobias, not only will they never get their arena at Market East, the faithful will march on Camden, N.J., and burn down their practice facility. Sixerdom has had enough of Harris.

No 76er since Andre Iguodala has attracted as much criticism as Harris. It isn’t quite fair, but it is what it is.

Harris spent 5 1/2 seasons in Philadelphia. The first 4 1/2 made much of the last season untenable, but he owed his followers nothing. Unlike, say, Joel Embiid, Harris produced better in the postseason than he did in the regular season. But he was toast against the Knicks. No lift. No speed. Flat shots.

Why? Simple.

He got overused. At 31, he got old. All those miles add up.

Since the 2019-20 season, his first full season as a Sixer, no player in the NBA who is currently over the age of 30 played more minutes in the regular season and postseason combined than Harris, at 13,461. James Harden is second. You might notice that The Beard has stunk in the playoffs, too.

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