Did you just start watching basketball this year? Holiday was a run of the mill average point guard who had flatlined this time last offseason. Vucevic and Holiday finished 4, 5 in MIP category. Again, it would be the Thunder reluctant to do that trade, not the Sixers.
Of course players get hurt. However, the fact that Beverley caused the injury, and he plays for the Rockets, who wouldn't have been here without Harden. This is more a coincidence than anything else, but it did happen.
yeah, it's definitely coincidence. Maybe the Mavs sign Beverley in bizzarro alternate universe and the same thing happens with the Mavs as the 8th seed.
If the trade led to the Westbrook injury, does it mean it prevented Durant and Ibaka from similar injuries? Presti traded one year of Harden for one year of Martin, Lamb, two first round picks, and a second round pick. At the end of the year, they felt they were a better team with Martin, and they still have Lamb and the draft picks. We also got Cook and Aldrich, but that helped Oklahoma City's situation also. If they hadn't traded Harden then, they'd be trying to set up sign and trade scenarios now. And that's the difference, of course - we were willing and able to sign Harden long term. Everybody gets injured at one point or another.
You have absolutely no idea what would have happened had Harden not been traded. For wall we know, he and Westbrook may have collided in practice and each torn up a knee. Had they not played Houston, a member of the other team may have collided with Durant and torn up his knee.
if there was going to be a trade for westbrook, it would have been boston, rondo + another rotation player, maybe neither would be injured now, but christ, rondo's skillset would suit durant, harden and the much improved mid range shooting ibaka like nothing else (and of course it might stop perkins from sulking).
obviously trading harden was bad for them. why not amnesty perkins to keep harden? the world will never know.
Well if Hakeem's father hadn't met his mother, then Hakeem wouldn't have been born. And if Hakeem hadn't been born, then the Rockets wouldn't have won a ring and Alexander wouldn't have bought the team. And if Alexander hadn't bought the team he wouldn't have hired Daryl Morey who would've traded for Harden in the first place. So really, it's your fault for making such a stupid-ass argument Let me put it another way, Harden trade was one that benefited both teams. The way he was being used, he wasn't worth a max contract, esp. if you can lock up KM for a discount. Obviously in hindsight it would've been better to trade WB instead. or not trade for Perkins at all, but given the circumstances it was the right move for OKC to make, paying your 6th guy the max doesn't make a lick of sense.
Because Harden couldn't co-exist with WB, they had to choose 1. Amnestying Perkins would have left them with 3 max guys who don't play well together and a bunch of rookie scale contracts. You'd have the worse version of the Miami Heat.
If Hakeem hadn't have been born, With the 1st pick of the 1984 draft, the Houston Rockets select Michael Jordan...
According to Jordan himself, the Rockets had said they would take him if they lost the coinflip (and Hakeem went to Portland)
