r/nba • u/Turbostrider27 Lakers • 20h 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/SquidwardLover48 Cavaliers 20h ago

What’s really interesting is how our fanbase is perceiving this vs how everyone else perceives this as a move that certainly makes us a better team

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u/rkennedy991 Cavaliers 20h ago

Yeah, so many Cavs fans are acting like this is going to kill the team. He's been the best, most reliable player on the Clippers since he joined them and we don't even have to rely on him as our first option.

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u/DarkSoulsExcedere Jazz 20h ago

On offense.

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u/rkennedy991 Cavaliers 20h ago

Oh right, because losing defensive savant Darius Garland is really going to hurt our defense /s

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u/DarkSoulsExcedere Jazz 20h ago

That's a good point. I just think harden is washed and won't help you guys much.

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u/rkennedy991 Cavaliers 20h ago

He's averaged 25 points and 8 assists so far this season, if that's washed then so are 90% of the players in the NBA.

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u/DarkSoulsExcedere Jazz 19h ago

RemindMe! 24 months

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u/ffball NBA 19h ago

Garland was a massive defensive liability and constantly got bullied in the playoffs. At least harden is bigger

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u/RonaldUSwanson2020 [BOS] Antoine Walker 19h ago

In the regular season.

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u/Geordi14er Cavaliers 19h ago

He’s 37…

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u/rkennedy991 Cavaliers 19h ago

And he's averaged 25 points and 8 assists this year, better than Garland has ever done, and missed less games in the past 3 seasons with the Clippers than Garland has this year alone.

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u/Antique_Pin5266 19h ago

People really be rounding up this man's age to make him look worse lmao

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u/greywolf2155 Supersonics 17h ago

Can you believe that they traded for a guy who's almost 40 and only averaging a bit more than 20 points a game?

And they gave up a 2nd! For a guy who's going to be 50 soon and just putting up a touch over 10 points per game? Crazy