ESPN’s Brian Windhorst: Why the Clippers Traded James Harden to the Cavs | The Rich Eisen Show

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1. James “the playoff cancer” Harden

2. The Clipper screwed up big time. They had a chance, but now they are playing for the lottery.

3. Clippers Run LA!

4. The second part of this sounds like scripted propaganda for the league from Windy

5. who gives a crap about the cluppers? why did cleveland just tank for the future with loser harden?

6. Talk about Ballmer's cap circumvention and Adam Silver's duplicity

7. Windy has come a long way from Akron. He legit is just a kid from Akron.

8. Harden being traded, often for a bad attitude, is symptom for a bad NBA. This and players resting is eroding this league.

9. best Kawhi has been since he was out is what BM should say. He was best his first season in LA, not now.

10. R.E is a chump..

11. Hardin has reached a point in his career that his bad actions have finally exceeded his talent level. Team is tired of the drama.

12. They traded him because the punishments from the cap circumvention investigation are gonna be coming through

13. The Tree Company scandal is what happened. If you lose Kahwi, what is the point of paying a 36 year old? That shady contract blew this team up.

14. lol. Now Cleveland is the Rockets.

15. Simple. Because he's James Harden.

16. We are talking to the legend of trades. What the beard wants he gets pronto.

17. I identify with James Harden. I to have left employers for more money and better situations. Several times. I'm not one of the lucky people whose uncle or parents or whatever own the company they're working for and they're set without needing to take care of themselves. I learned that lesson real fast with my first employer. These companies have no loyalty whatsoever, only a fool would be loyal to them (and case law indicates judges outright laughing at and mocking employees for stupidly thinking otherwise).

18. And then they wonder why the ratings have fallen 😂

19. 5:14 he almost made it to the end of the clip without mentioning LeGM

20. Clippers are a bunch of scrubs. You aren’t winning in the west with aging stars.

21. but it was about "winning!"…

    … a new contract

22. What ever happened to team loyalty? All these guys care about is money. What about winning the title?

23. I mean that’s like embid saying “well if I wasn’t always injured I could’ve been the best of all time” availablity is is a skill my guy

24. I wouldnt believe in that team either. Only reason they are winning is a super saiyan Kawhi. Take him out and this team is trash

25. 1 thing he got wrong the clippers are still a good team….

26. Anyone who's actually has watched most of clippers games would know that Harden and Zubac are not going to help this team to win a chip for obvious reasons: 1. Harden can score, but he's a huge defensive liability and turnover machine, and very streaky with his shots at age 36. 2. Zubac not only has not improved, but regressed to a point he's only good for three things on the court, good one-on-one defense, rebounding and low post scoring. Zubac is a terrible passer and low-iq-low-reactionary player, and many times he got the ball slapped out of his hands by smaller players after securing a rebound. However, if he ever develop a jumper, or even a somewhat good 3-point shot like Lopez did, he'd been kept and probably developed into a #2, but that never happened, and he's already 29.
    Moreover, if you pay attention to the Clippers winning streak in the past 20 or more games, you'd notice they start winning when these 3 things happen simultaneously: 1. Zubac did not play in many of those winning games due to injury. 2. Harden did not shoot nearly as much or had the ball in his hands as often, and 3. Kawhi play out of his mind and has the ball in his hand way more than he used to. Also, Zubac's effectiveness on the offensive end largely dependent on harden, before Harden's arrival, Zubac was just a mere good defensive player. Now that Harden is gone, it makes a lot of sense to trade away Zubac while his stock is high before other peolple start to realize the kind of player he actually is.

27. He wants 2 years. Clippers want 1 year. Clippers don't want a bunch of money on the books for 2027. Clippers will have lots of cap space for 2027. It's that simple.

28. The better Kawhi plays, the more selfish he proves how he was. He's just all in for his next contract, that's the most important thing to him!

29. Fact is Harden gave up a lot of money in Philly in order for the team to get better players and Morey promised him he’ll get the money back later. We all know now Morey lied to him and Harden got screwed. The media likes to spin it like Harden is a selfish guy but it’s just not true. He had a legit reason every time..

30. If " IF WAS A FIFTH WE'D ALL BE DRUNK