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  • James Harden on his way to Brooklyn after the rocket ship them to the Nets for a package of players and draft picks.

  • One of those players is Caris Levert, who?

  • The Rockets then moved to Indiana in a swap for Victor Oladipo.

  • But the Nets or the story Pablo they will now featured James Harden, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

  • If and when he returns, do you see this working?

  • I see this being first of all insanely volatile Tony.

  • It's worth noting that the pretext for this is that Kyrie Irving has been missing from work.

  • We don't really know why.

  • There are currently many questions speculating around league.

  • How are he and Kevin Durant getting along?

  • All of which is to say that the throw James Harden in there is an explosive thing to do.

  • But I do think that they had to do it.

  • If you can get James Harden Tony, one of the few things I am sure of in the n b.

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  • In sports in general, really, is that if you can get an MBA M v P candidate, a perennial one, you have to do it.

  • I don't care about the chemistry if he is on the table, you try and get him and then you figure it out.

  • Because maybe that helps address the fact that this Kyrie thing we don't know what's gonna happen there.

  • Let's just follow the talent, Keep doing that.

  • I love the trade because it makes it easier for me to hate the Nets even more.

  • Now as they load up in this way, I look at James Harden and what he has done this year in Houston.

  • When he stopped playing, he stopped.

  • He stopped running.

  • He stopped working.

  • He even stopped shooting, which is amazing.

  • And he just poison the well there so that they had to get him out.

  • You know, when he said was last night, he said, This just isn't working And then they kept him away from practice today.

  • So you knew that they were gonna make a move.

  • I wonder if he can play with Kyrie Irving because I wonder if anybody can play with Kyrie Irving and I wonder when Kyrie Irving will play again.

  • I will say this about Harden.

  • He's a great, great, great talent.

  • He sabotaged the team.

  • He was just on.

  • You don't know if that can happen again, the volatilities references.

  • Absolutely correct.

  • He has played with Russell Westbrook.

  • He has played with Chris Paul.

  • He has played with Kevin Durant.

  • These are great talents as well, and to my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong, he's never want to ring, so I don't know what you can bank on, but they have made.

  • This trade makes the Nets the most must see team in the N NBA, but by a long distance.

  • And there's another name Tony that I think of when I was watching this deal unfold today amid the slow motion divorce that you described with James Harden in Houston.

  • And that's Anthony Davis because there were many critiques, right?

  • Anthony Davis, terrible teammate, betraying his team, making it so hard for everybody there.

  • Alvin Gentry in New Orleans on all of which was 1 million% true.

  • It was such a mess that made a lot of people think less of him with the thing with talent.

  • At this level in the MBA, you still have to go and get that guy, because what happens?

  • You get Anthony Davis.

  • The Lakers win a title that is the number one most direct line between two points in the league.

  • If you wanna get to the title, you go get more superstars.

  • Oh, no, I'm gonna give you that.

  • That that's the That's the perfect analogy.

  • If I were Houston and I thought about this this morning before this trade was made, if I was Houston and I wasn't letting a lot of fans in and it didn't really matter to me, I would have told James Harden, Just sit over in a corner somewhere.

  • Just leave me alone because I'm getting my TV money and I don't need you.

  • But if you're asking me, do the Nets have to make this trade 100%?

  • And does it carry with it risk 100%?

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James Harden on his way to Brooklyn after the rocket ship them to the Nets for a package of players and draft picks.

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