E.

How are you?

Good.

How are you doing?

I have you on because I want to know.

James Harden has now said Okay, fine.

Maybe I don't just have to be traded to the Brooklyn Nets.

So everyone's thinking Philadelphia immediately.

Who do you think has the best chance to trade for him based on their assets, their contracts and what's attractive today?

I mean, I think if you're checking the three boxes that Houston is looking for a I guess Cornerstones young building block.

Ben Simmons, young player on a controllable rookie contract.

The Thai Stibel and draft picks, which the Sixers have, um, you know, for the next couple of years, they they checked the boxes.

Right now.

So now I guess the willing is Phyllis Philadelphia willing Thio do something with, uh, with James Harden.

Or, you know, because we'd have to be certainly Ben Simmons here.

I don't know if I'm quite there yet.

If I'm up on the six years, I think I wanna let's play this out a little bit.

Um, from from their perspective, um, you know, you've seen the rave reviews coming out of that six years camp about Ben Simmons.

I don't know if that's just done on purpose.

That pardon is now involved in trade talks here, but yeah, I mean, I think I think the Sixers would probably be the leaders in the clubhouse just based on what they have to offer.

I think I think it's an interesting team, Max and I have it up there today.

You know, some teams, um, trade partners would be Boston.

Um, you know, certainly that.

But what does Boston have to offer E?

I don't know if Jalen Brown is enough.

I don't think just by himself is certainly not enough.

Um, you know, he's under contract for the next four years.

I think he's probably a borderline all star.

I don't think he's a franchise cornerstone there, but you've got Jalen Brown.

Um, you've got basically five or six players that are on Yeah, rookie contracts.

You've got all your draft picks here.

Um, I would probably put them a little bit of a head of the line compared to maybe where Brooklyn is, um, right now with, you know, certainly know about Caris, Levert and Spencer Dinwiddie.

Jared Allen draft picks there.

But I think, um, I think you know Philadelphia.

I think Boston, you know, certainly Brooklyn.

Probably in a distant third.

But it's hard, you know, these these superstar, you know that when you're never going to get the same amount.

At least right now.

As far as what?

You're what you're giving up, Bobby, thank you very much.

That's what I need to know.

Appreciate it.

Talk to you soon.

That's Bobby Marks, ladies and gentlemen at Bobby Marks, 42 on Twitter.

Now I disagree with the analysis about Boston.

I don't think Boston has anything that where they could even sniff a James Harden trade.

Um, I like Jalen Brown.

He's a very nice player, but you can't have a borderline All Stars a centerpiece for a trade to James Harden.

I've always thought that a three team deal, or maybe more than even a three team deal, could maybe work.

The question is, is Caris, Levert and Spencer Dinwiddie enough to get enough stuff to be attractive to Philadelphia to bribe Pride Ben Simmons away and then make the deal for Ben Simmons?

Uh, James Harden, in other words, does does Daryl Morey believe that?

Maybe he likes Levert, for example, and he thinks, okay, embiid with Laverne and or likes Dinwiddie and the other one could be flipped into other stuff he likes.

But I I think that's unlikely to.

I think the most likely scenario is Ben Simmons for James Harden or Ben Simmons and a few things for James Harden.

Because that's the only way Houston maintains possession off a difference making kind of ballplayer.

There aren't that many guys like that around.

Ben Simmons is one of them.

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