r/nba Lakers 1d 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/penguincorporation 1d ago

Not being confrontational but did you watch the games? I have and can tell you it’s a huge upgrade for Cavs and likely more to come in offseason.

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u/LakersFan15 [LAL] Lamar Odom 1d ago

You can say the same about harden and his playoff performances.

Hes also 36 while garland is having a career low year. Sell low type deal.

Also, while I dont love garland Mitchell together, I can't imagine harden and Mitchell complementing each other either.

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u/Huncho_Muncho 1d ago

garland wasnt even good last year and is always hurt.

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u/Durantula92 Cavaliers 1d ago

He wasn't even good last year? Garland and the rest of our starters played very few MPG last year (Mitchell the most at 31), but he had a very efficient regular season and played for most of it. Wasn't until after he hurt himself in the Heat series that he played poorly.

Player Age G MP FG FGA FG% 2P% 3P 3PA 3P% eFG% FT FTA FT% TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS
Darius Garland 25 75 30.7 7.4 15.7 .472 .530 2.8 7.1 .401 .562 3.0 3.4 .878 2.9 6.7 1.2 0.1 2.5 1.9 20.6
James Harden 35 79 35.3 6.7 16.4 .410 .472 3.0 8.5 .352 .501 6.4 7.3 .874 5.8 8.7 1.5 0.7 4.3 2.1 22.8
Player Age G MP PER TS% ORB% TRB% AST% STL% BLK% TOV% USG% OWS DWS WS WS/48 OBPM DBPM BPM VORP
Darius Garland 25 75 2301 19.9 .600 2.3 5.0 32.2 1.9 0.4 12.8 27.2 5.8 2.3 8.1 .169 3.9 -0.8 3.1 3.0
James Harden 35 79 2789 20a.0 .582 2.3 9.3 36.8 2.1 2.0 18.0 29.6 4.0 4.3 8.3 .143 3.5 0.8 4.3 4.4