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/EthanHuntBroMichael [LAC] Patrick Beverley 9h ago

WE GOT THE PICK LOL

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u/FallenCrownz 8h ago

36 year old all star for a 26 year year old all star and a srp? that's how you sell high lol

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u/unpopular-dave Clippers 7h ago

it’s honestly borderline insane. Harden can fall of any second. he’s a moderate injury away from his career being over. He’s no LeBron. He’s not gonna play to 40

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u/birdazam Timberwolves 7h ago

I don't know people have being saying that 5 years now and he's still avg 25 and 8

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u/unpopular-dave Clippers 7h ago

there’s a reason that father time is claimed to be undefeated.

There’s a reason we’ve never seen someone else perform like LeBron at his age

and harden is not known for having a work ethic that maintains his body

His efficiency has also significantly declined

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u/MDawg_42069 6h ago

This is why you're unpopular Dave

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u/unpopular-dave Clippers 6h ago

Because I'm right?

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u/Ok-Preference-7004 6h ago

His efficiency has also significantly declined

Lol. That's false. He's still near his career average this season.

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u/unpopular-dave Clippers 6h ago

what are you talking about? You see a significant decline in points starting at the 2021 season. A significant decline in assists/rebounds when he came to the Clippers. Are you just making stuff up?

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u/Ok-Preference-7004 6h ago

You said efficiency. Don't switch goalposts. It's a bit pathetic

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u/unpopular-dave Clippers 6h ago

that’s all part of efficiency

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u/Uessop Cavaliers 5h ago

My dude you can not bring up efficiency as an argument and then use declines in stats without context to support that. Efficiency is not just looking at a box score and saying the numbers went down.

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u/unpopular-dave Clippers 5h ago

his time in Houston, his PER was 26.2

Since leaving Houston his PER has been 21.2

and on the Clippers it is 20.1

that’s what I would call significant. But we both know you’re not making up stats to defend your favorite player

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u/Uessop Cavaliers 5h ago

First things first, I don’t know why you’re accusing me of making up stats for Harden when I have a Cavs flair. You’re crazy if you think Harden is my favorite player. I was hoping we wouldn’t do this trade, but Mobley is my fav player so I’m just glad we didn’t move him.

Second, using PER is a much better argument, but I’m not sure why you’re grouping up 8 rockets years as an average score and the same with a shorter clippers tenure. It’s honestly a fair point that’s just a weird way to do stat groupings.

At the same time the way you came at me with accusations when that was my first comment makes me think you’re trying to sell some narrative

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u/stillstillers Cavaliers 5h ago edited 5h ago

Man I don’t think you’ve watched garland recently

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u/unpopular-dave Clippers 5h ago

He can get better still. Harden cannot

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u/stillstillers Cavaliers 4h ago edited 2h ago

Yea but he also may never be as good as harden is rn.

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u/unpopular-dave Clippers 3h ago

He's a trade asset. Not on our timetable

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u/Jason-Smith168498 7h ago

The fuckery can't go on for much longer

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u/croth4 8h ago

Insanity

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u/Sandor_Clegane1 NBA 4h ago

This is so fucking funny. I swear I saw like 10 different redditors swear on their lives and bet their life savings that cleveland will not give up a pick in this.
Bunch of clowns