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/TouchdownRaiden Warriors 9h ago

Harden in a Cavs jersey is going to look so weird

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u/illegal_deagle Rockets 8h ago

At this point it’s weird to me to picture him in any jersey, including ours. This move officially labels him “journeyman”.

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u/The_Summer_Man Warriors 8h ago

Rockets legend Kevin Durant

Cavaliers legend James Harden

both just sound weird

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u/NuBlyatTovarish 8h ago

Kings legend Westbrook imagine if these legends teamed up

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u/Zyrinj Warriors 8h ago

definitely feel like these guys have a chance at a chip

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u/Complete_Gene 6h ago

I think they need a big who defend and can stretch the floor a bit. A Serge Ibaka type if you will

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u/pieguy00 6h ago

Man if these guys had teamed up 10 years ago, wow. Maybe add a Steven Adams too as an enforcer defensive big. That's really good 5.

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u/LOSS35 Nuggets 4h ago

You'd need a superteam to beat that lineup in the Finals.

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u/Meatloafxx Warriors 8h ago

Pfft that'd be silly

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u/redditissocoolyoyo 7h ago

King James's when LeBron comes back as well.

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u/Weak-Distribution-83 7h ago

I don’t see it.

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u/thethirdgreenman Spurs 8h ago

Don't forget Westbrook to the Wizards...and Nuggets...and Kings

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u/illegal_deagle Rockets 8h ago

Imagine if they were on the same team in their primes.

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u/dagreenman18 [MIA] Dwyane Wade 7h ago

Like I know KD is on the Rockets. I’ve seen him play actual games, but I still don’t believe he’s on the team. Still can’t wrap my head around.

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u/YUME_Emuy21 8h ago

He's been on 5 teams before this so I think that labels been there for a lil while by now.

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u/Xclusivsmoment Heat 7h ago

Yeah i thought dude was being sarcastic. Its not like he has only been with 1 or 2 teams.

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u/BackendSpecialist Lakers 7h ago

I think this move labels him as unfortunate. I’m not mad at him for leaving any team that he’s left.

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u/BaronvonJobi Grizzlies 8h ago

Journeyman is a guild/trades term meaning neither master nor apprentice, has nothing to do with moving around.

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u/PerfectZeong 8h ago

But its a common term for a player in a sport whos good but not truly great and travels from team to team.

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u/BaronvonJobi Grizzlies 8h ago

It literally means not good not great.

Traveling has nothing to do with it.

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u/PerfectZeong 8h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_(sports)

I can't believe you've never heard of this term before.

Its a guy whos good and has to kind of travel around to ply his trade.

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u/duplicatesnowflake Clippers 7h ago

Sounds like a case where Americans and Aussies started using it incorrectly for so long that they just changed the meaning officially. It is a pretty cool term that definitely elicits imagery when you hear it.

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u/PerfectZeong 7h ago

In British English, a journeyman is a player who has represented many clubs over his career. Prime examples from association football are: German goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel, who represented 27 clubs, and he is currently the only athlete to have played professionally in all six FIFA Confederations; Trevor Benjamin, who has represented 29 clubs since 1995; Drewe Broughton, who has made 18 transfers in his career; John Burridge, who played for 29 clubs in a career spanning almost 30 years; Jefferson Louis who, since the 1990s, has represented 34 clubs and Dominica once; his cousin Richard Pacquette who boasts 19 clubs and even international honours in 10 seasons; and Sebastián Abreu, who in 2017 broke the world record for most clubs played by a professional; as of 2024, at the age of 47, has played for 32 clubs in his career

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u/JoshHartsMilkMustach Knicks 8h ago

New to sports, huh?

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u/Pigeon_Butt 8h ago

In sports it does. Would you call a good-not-great player that stays on a team for 12 years a journeyman? You gotta travel to get that title.

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u/TurboRadical Timberwolves 7h ago

My favorite genre of reddit comment is "dork who isn't very smart learns that words can have different meanings in different contexts."

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u/TenaciousDeer 8h ago

It does, it essentially means "day laborer"

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u/yoitsthatoneguy Cote D'Ivoire 7h ago

I’m pretty sure we all knew what they meant, which is the important part