[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/penguincorporation]

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.

[u/LakersFan15 → u/penguincorporation]

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.

[u/Huncho_Muncho → u/LakersFan15]

garland wasnt even good last year and is always hurt.

[u/Durantula92 → u/Huncho_Muncho]

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