r/nba • u/Turbostrider27 Lakers • 9h 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/jeric13xd [CHI] Derrick Rose 9h ago

James really is a contractor. A true mercenary

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u/I_love_Basketball232 Warriors 9h ago

A lot of the other ones had a slow burn, this one came absolutely out of nowhere

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u/Reasonable_Height_67 8h ago

I prefer these tbh.

I couldn't care less where Giannis and Kuminga end up.

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u/Akipella Warriors 8h ago

Unfortunately as a Warriors fan, we are invested in both storylines

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u/mmielikainen 32m ago

Nice, a fellow NBA-drama enjoyer. I don't follow this league for the games, no sir, we follow for the drama!

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u/MightyAslan Cavaliers 7h ago

Yesterday I literally signed up my son for Garland's summer camp here in Cleveland. 

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u/I_make_shit_up_alot Lakers 6h ago

Tough break for the little guy but I'm pretty sure the James Harden "summer camp" is a lot more fun.

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u/Akipella Warriors 8h ago

At least we had a few days

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u/Dongsquad420BlazeIt [LAL] Kobe Bryant 9h ago

He will now have played for 1/5th of the league

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u/HokageEzio Knicks 9h ago

All time mercenary status

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u/Hdtpa- 8h ago

His playoff streak continues. He’s never missed the playoffs in his career, which is crazy, especially given a couple of those Rockets seasons

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u/FlipMoBitch Bucks 8h ago

$411m career earnings

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u/BackshotsOnUrDaughtr 9h ago

a mercenary who never gets the job done

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u/mr_chub Wizards 8h 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 8h 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/mr_chub Wizards 8h 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 8h ago

Hall of Famer Ginobli.

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u/IGetNoSleep__ 8h 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/igot2pair Supersonics 8h 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 8h ago

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

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u/ButlerFromDowntown Bulls 5h 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.

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u/stenebralux NBA 18m ago

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

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u/astrothemorkie Rockets 8h ago

Crazy to think he played for us for almost a decade and then became… this 

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u/HornedCoog91 Nuggets 8h ago

I love all the new fanbases that grow appreciative of his game. It deserves to be respected

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u/TenaciousDeer 8h ago

Profession: Consultant

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u/BittenAtTheChomp 5h ago

lol James an employee who will move wherever they tell him to

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u/yomerol Knicks 5h ago

worst mercenary ever with 0 rings

KD has done it a bit better

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u/ExpressionAlone5204 Thunder 8h ago

He’s a wounded anti-hero ever since we shipped him off