[Front Office Sports] Nets and Rockets have a "verbal agreement” on Harden trade

none at all and most of the fans are vehemently against it. My take is if you can get harden and keep Tatum (he won’t be made available) the Celtics still have a contender and it also stops a super team in the East.

 

mill take this tip jar bet if it happens.

Kyrie + Harden is a personality clash disaster waiting to happen. KD is passive aggressive so will be useless. Nash is a first year coach whose playing style is a better fit for the GSW type offense than whatever they’d get with Kyrie/Harden, MDA will just sit there, and indeed none of these guys are good on defense.

on pure talent they’d have a shot but I’d bet against it.

 

One of the nets involved are signed to long deals.

 

good to know. players will immediately flock to the nets to ring chase. They'll dominate.

 

I’d do that deal in a heartbeat if I ran the Rockets.

 

Great, that's how it should be. The Rockets need to realize that they can't hold these cards for too long though, or eventually they may not be as valuable as they currently are, especially Harden.

 

Hell yes

 

Hakeem wanted to be traded too for the longest time. He was no angel. Harden wants to be traded and play #2/#3?! Unless Russ, Durant, and harden wanna run it back? Dunno, just speculating.

 

Boston can come in and offer:

Jaylen Brown
Marcus Smart
Daniel Theis
#14
#26
#30
3 Future 1sts

And I'll be fine with that. Offer what you need to in order to get Myles Turner from Indy. Wait for Utah to implode next season and offer up the 1st Rounders for Donovan Mitchell.

Turner, Brown and Mitchell. That would be your core for the next 4+ years

 

Worst case scenario, the Rockets wait until next offseason to trade Harden and get a package similar to what the Lakers traded for Anthony Davis last offseason with only one year remaining on his contract.

 

I think it’s a win win....I mean I’d like to roll back some thing but ultimately I’m not moving tatum. Brown is a really good player but we are getting a top 6 player in return and u can still win.

I mean it’s a haul- a risky risky move for Boston especially they’ve been bitten by kyrie leaving before after 2 years and also kemba and harden is horrible defensively. Maybe tweak the deal some way but basically brown/smart/Williams all 3 firsts this year for sure

 

That’s OK because we’re not going anywhere.

 

One caveat, Harden is going to be 32 next season and AD was 26 when Lakers traded for him. AD has several years left to allow the Lakers to continue building around him for years to come, Harden only has a couple more years of prime time left. It's not exactly the same situation.

 

Ok. Like I said I’ll tip jar bet that with you. Ping me back if the trade happens.

 

beat la

 

I agree with you. Also, I would still do it even if it was just Brown, Smart, Williams and pick 14 only. Or, if Smart and Williams are replaced with more first-round picks. Brown is the key for me, as I see him as someone you can build around as your second or third-best player on a championship team. He’s good on both ends of the court.

 

the thing about that deal is and again I don’t know what you guys feel on him or this but let’s say you do that deal, you can keep Westbrook for a year (if you wanted don’t have to obviously he can be moved) but you keep Westbrook hand him the keys w brown smart around him and let him do his best okc routine. He may not demand out if he’s the guy ( I know u guys may want him out lol)

he gets u in the playoffs, build his value and takes another year off his deal which now next off season is less and maybe teams are more willing to take a chance. Again u can also just say f it, sell harden sell Westbrook and get a very good young player in brown and the rest of the package.

 

I agree that the Rockets wouldn’t get quite as much as the Pelicans did for Davis because of Harden’s age. However, the offers would at least be similar to Brooklyn’s initial offer.

 

Furthermore, the only reason the lakers were forced to give up that much despite the fact that no one was offering anything close, was the pressure of LeBron and his age.

If the rockets don't trade harden by the trade deadline, his trade value will be substantially less than it is now, especially if he is deadset on only joining the nets.

 

yea I mean listen I won’t bs you. Simmons is the guy you want but let’s say Tillman won’t deal w Morey- this is much much better than that Brooklyn deal (not rubbing it in at all ). U say f u harden f u Morey (I know not his fault) and get a very good package in return. It’s the. Boston’s risk to keep harden from there.