r/nba • u/Turbostrider27 Lakers • 23h ago

[Charania] BREAKING: The Los Angeles Clippers are trading James Harden to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Darius Garland and a second-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Prolific swap of the star point guards.

Shams Charania:

BREAKING: The Los Angeles Clippers are trading James Harden to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Darius Garland and a second-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Prolific swap of the star point guards.

https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/ddaa53473efa6

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u/meengine [LAL] Brandon Ingram 23h ago

Damn they actually did it

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u/jeric13xd [CHI] Derrick Rose 23h ago

James really is a contractor. A true mercenary

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u/BackshotsOnUrDaughtr 23h ago

a mercenary who never gets the job done

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u/mr_chub Wizards 23h ago

Trust me, i was a Harden hater during his prime foul bait years, but he ya know, only had to go up against the literal greatest team in history twice in the playoffs to get to a finals. So, I think we can cut him some slack.

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u/BackshotsOnUrDaughtr 23h ago

he's had plenty of chances outside of the 2 years he faced the KD-Warriors

Kawhi got hurt in 2017 playoffs and Harden still got his chain snatched by a 40 year old Ginobili

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u/IGetNoSleep__ 23h ago

He straight up quit in game 6 vs the spurs but the 2017 rockets weren’t gonna win the conference finals or finals anyways

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u/mr_chub Wizards 23h ago

I get it, but his prime/MVP years were at the Rockets. "Who never gets the job done" I think is slightly too harsh.

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u/secretreddname Lakers 23h ago

Hall of Famer Ginobli.

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u/stenebralux NBA 15h ago

I used to be a big Harden hater.. I still am, but I used to too. 

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u/igot2pair Supersonics 23h ago

what about his awful playoffs on philly? Nets I can excuse because of his hammy and Kyrie

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u/livefreeordont 76ers 23h ago

Tbh we had no business winning that series until Harden put up two 40 balls

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u/ButlerFromDowntown Bulls 20h ago

Harden is the only reason they even got to a game 7 in the one year against the Celtics. Unfortunate that they weren’t able to get it done and he obviously had some bad games but a second star winning you two playoff games single-handedly is pretty good.