John Granato: Raptors & Celtics favorites to land James Harden

I agree with you, i don't really like Irving and think he's overrated but i gotta think some teams would still love to get him, Knicks, Magic, probably others...he's still young enough to not be a waste for teams who are trying to be relevant sooner rather then later.

 

Read what i said bro, i don't want Irving here, i'm just wondering if the Nets could trade him to a third team in order to give us a better package.

 

The nets are NOT trading kyrie......

 

We know, just discussing hypotheticals at this point.

 

Call me pessimistic but I'm going to say Harden eventually gets traded to the Nets in a 3 team deal for a promising young player coming from the 3rd team and a slew of picks from the Nets. Irving will stay and they'll have an unstoppable big 3 and we'll be left with lottery tickets.

 

I actually think hes underrated at this point, hes just an absolute head case to the point if he somehow got traded I can see him just retiring lmao

 

The plate they have to offer is so awful though lol. I wouldn’t put anything past Tilman but I wouldn’t imagine he would take that deal.

 

Trade deadline now don’t see a deal coming before season starts or soon imo

 

Irving is older now but still one of the best ball handlers and still clutch.

It's his off court antics that tick us off.

 

I feel confident the Rockets won't trade with the Nets for their current players plus picks.

And just to be clear about what i think, the picks part of the deal with them is imo a bit underrated, cause aside for Allen they really don't have real talent to develop, the rest is a bounch of old guys over 30, if with Allen and LeVert they trade their picks in the years 2025 and after, those picks have a chance to be pretty interesting down the line, and that's something you can't expect if you take back picks from Miami, Phila and especially Boston. But in terms of players yeah, they just don't have it, they would've to find that specific prospect to send here.

 

True, and i do reconize his talent which is probably top 10 in the league, but i'm also not a fan of how he plays in general, i see him as a guy who plays mostly for himself.

 

Granato can take his platter of **** and fvck off.

 

“Rod Black is a Canadian sports announcer for TSN and CTV Sports”

 

I can’t wait for this to be over! This guy doesn’t know anything just like the majority of the others that claim to have sources or try to imply that they do. All they’re doing is recirculating what is already being discussed and pointing out the obvious.

 

Oh I see them.....they just arent getting a deal done without a third trading partner, a trade straight up with them will not happen. We arent taking their garbage, full stop.

 

Anyone have a gut feeling we are about to make the trade? Just have a weird feeling it happens before tomorrows games.

 

I don’t see a good deal from the Celtics. Not interested in Brown, and all they’ve got otherwise is their own picks.

Raptors is basically Siakam and their own picks. Again, just blah.

Denver and the Sixers are the only packages that might interest me at this point.

Philly: Simmons, Maxey, Milton, 2 1st
Denver: Murray, MPJ, RJ Hampton, 1 1st

If I’m Houston, those are the packages I’m looking for.

 

Denver
Miami
Toronto
Philly

In that order

 

I'm greedy but I hope the Rockets end up with Brown from Boston and then Boston somehow trades picks/players to the Nuggets for MPJ and Harden is traded for Brown/MPJ and one 1st to the Celtics.

 

agree that Denver has the best possible deal.

If Bam is in the Miami deal, then fine. Otherwise I don’t see them as an option.

For Toronto, it would have to include basically all of their picks.

Philly - wish I knew what Stone thought about Simmons.