I'm happy for him.

You know, I'm happy for him.

Only from the standpoint that he's back in the league.

He's gonna be healthy.

We know this is a guy that averaged 28 a game when he was in Sacramento and then New Orleans.

We know what he could do when healthy.

Last couple of seasons, he's had a string of bad luck, but he can play.

I don't know if Houston's the ideal matchup, particularly with James Harden, their considering their style of play.

I don't think Boogie fits into that.

Personally, that's just me.

But having said all of that, uh, it doesn't matter if you're James Harden, you need to want to go to Brooklyn for one reason.

Above all else, your shot at the title.

It ain't in Houston.

You got no shot.

They're not beating the Lakers.

They're not beating the Clippers.

They probably wouldn't beat Denver or Dallas.

That's the way I look at it, okay?

And if you, even though Philadelphia would be a possibility in the option, they're still relatively young at certain positions.

You're James Harden, I think, with what the Lakers have put together in terms of Anthony Davis expected to resign.

LeBron still being there.

Mauris still there then, and then you acquired Marc Gasol and Montreal's Harold Okay and trader.

The bottom line is, when you look at the Los Angeles Lakers, they are better than they were when they won the championship last month.

It's just that simple.

And when you look at it from that perspective, what's your best shot to go after them?

Assemble a Big three.

Ah Kyrie k d with James Harden because you're certainly not going to beat them in the interior.

You gotta bring them outside and destroy them in that fashion, pushing the ball up the court and shooting perimeter shots.

That's your Onley shot to beat this Los Angeles Lakers squad, and there's only one team that could do it.

That would be Brooklyn if James Harden were there.

Not to mention the fact that let's call it what it is.

Max, Kevin Durant.

You know how I feel about him.

You know what I think about him best in the world?

I think he is that lethal.

Probably the greatest offensive score we've ever seen in our lifetime.

Let me be very, very clear with what I'm about to say.

He's on the clock.

Kevin Durant is on the clock.

You were injured last year.

We all know that.

I believe you will average 27 in your sleep.

We know that we know what Katie could dio, but LeBron has re emerged.

He actually instead of being called King James.

He is King James because he's the one wearing the crown as we speak.

And we all know that Before K D went to Golden State, LeBron went to Miami and LeBron has proceeded K D and a lot of moves.

And K d wanted to sit up there and find his own juggernaut.

Got himself back to back Chips, would have had his own threepeat had he not got injured because Kar Wai Lin in Toronto, when they had a snowball's chance in hell of being Golden State.

But with all of that said, now that Kevin Durant sat out last season, you're talking about coming back.

You in Brooklyn, New York.

This is the Mecca, New York.

Okay, don't give a damn this Brooklyn, as opposed to Manhattan.

It's one of the five boroughs.

It's New York, baby.

Okay, we expect stuff up in here and not to say that the Knicks have given us any reason because we know better.

I'm just talking about that, that microscopic I that the sends down upon you, monitoring everything you dio and what it takes.

If you're Kevin Durant with Kyrie and you don't have any kind of championship a t least contention to show for it, you got a problem.

And if you James Harden, you certainly need that yourself.

James Harden, because of the Lakers, should be trying to get toe Brooklyn now more than ever before.

And Max is in the side.

I'm hearing nobody's really calling Houston right now about James Harden.

Nothing is going on.

The Houston Rockets are expecting James Harden to remain in Houston.

As of this moment, it could change in a matter of hours.

You know how this goes, but they're expecting him to stay in Houston because nobody is calling them for for James Harden as we speak, Brooklyn needs to change.

They need to get on the phone with Houston.

Houston knows they have to trade Harden.

They know they're going to trade Harden.

If in fact they're not getting calls in.

That's because no one's gonna bite on the Harden trade when they know he's gonna go to Brooklyn.

Andi.

I would love to see him in Brooklyn, Stephen A.

I think not.

Only when you say you don't have to say, like Brooklyn's one of the five boroughs, even though it's not Manhattan.

Brooklyn rings more bells around the world culturally, you know, as a sexy kind of location.

The Manhattan does there than anyplace in in New York does.

I was going in the Bronx, You're from Queens.

But you, you know, like they're people named Brooklyn all around the world, right?

So so And that that Burrow is thirsty for a title for a major league franchise toe win a title hasn't had one since 1955 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York is thirsty for a title.

Hasn't had one since 73 with the Knicks, or, if you count the A B a 76 with the Nets when they were in Long Island.

So I love to see Harden on the Nets, and I think your point about the Lakers is a very good one.

They've they've reloaded better than last year.

Boy, you better be on a super team.

But the thing about joining Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving strictly from James Harden's point of view, if the point is to get credit for winning a championship, he ain't gonna be the best player on that team.

And people are gonna say, Well, you were supposed to get out of the East Well, you know, when we measure it up, you know a D and LeBron and shrewder is not que de if he's really K D if he's recovered, Kyrie and James Harden those air to M.

V.

P s plus an All Star plus kind of guy.

Lakers don't have that.

History will forget the details.

Well, they had this nice little piece and that nice little piece they're going to remember the stars on the Nets.

Look what Philadelphia did, though it looks like Daryl Morey is determined to see if Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid can win a title together.

He brings in Seth Curry you mentioned in the last block and shoot the lights out brings in Danny Green, legit three and D like Richardson, is younger, but in terms of the three point shooter, Danny Green is better.

And so it's not.

And they have a GM obviously, and Daryl Morey, who knows what he's doing right?

Like they were able to get much closer than they ought have gotten to a title in Houston because of the team that more he put together.

It wasn't the most talented, but the pieces fit the right way and the coach knew how to use it.

Stephen, let me ask you something.

What happens if you swap out Ben Simmons for James Harden with Joe L.

M B and B is a beef and bead when he's healthy is like who really handles that guy, right?

Like you talk about the interior with a D and A D is the best big in the game.

If you consider a D A big and beat is right, they're just not as consistent, but at his height.

That dude is giving you 40 and 15 and playing defense the whole thing.

You put Harden on that team.

Not only do they have a fighting chance to get out of the East, but if they win a title, Stephen a hardened really will have done something.

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