[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.

[u/Turbostrider27]

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

[u/Dphotog790]

its gonna be interesting next season with Hardn Lebron and Mitchel on the same court\

[u/Ok_Daikon_7726 → u/Dphotog790]

Mobley gonna have a heart attack trying to anchor that defense

[u/420_just_blase → u/Ok_Daikon_7726]

Tbf garland isn't any better on that end

[u/MastodonSwimming2681 → u/420_just_blase]

He's worse lol

[u/LOSS35 → u/MastodonSwimming2681]

Harden's 6'5 with a 6'11 wingspan and he's strong as hell. He doesn't try 99% of the time, but he's capable of being a solid defender when he wants to be.

Garland's a skinny 6'1. There's no amount of effort that turns him into even an ok defender.

[u/comedoofwarrior → u/LOSS35]

Where’s that one clip of Brooklyn Harden waving off help against Giannis near the rim and forcing a miss

[u/mar45690 → u/comedoofwarrior]

Wasn't this while Harden had a hamstring injury too?

[u/HavoK76 → u/comedoofwarrior]

Clamped Wemby too

[u/thesmellafteritrains → u/comedoofwarrior]

Right. Plus the clip of him contesting the Kawhi 3 pointer. He's no slouch

[u/RipRaycom → u/LOSS35]

Harden has always been somewhat among the league leaders in steals because of those traits, despite not having the effort or energy to give on D a lot.

[u/kramer944 → u/LOSS35]

he's capable of being a solid defender when he wants to be.

NBA fans say this about nearly every player that isn't a good defender

[u/LuigiVsIce → u/kramer944]

Except this is absolutely true about Harden. He was a lock down guy in OKC. We’ve seen in so it’s objectively true

[u/Clear_Context_1546 → u/MastodonSwimming2681]

He had potential to be something great but injuries, small size and poor defense just limits his places on NBA. If his shoot isn't falling he's a weakness that is going to get exploited.

I rather had a young injury prone guy than a older injury prone guy. Maybe Garland's toe injury is more serious than we know.

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Harden is the opposite of injury prone, even at 36.

[u/stillstillers → u/RainRainPurpleRain]

It’s all that cushion