NBA: James Harden will head to the Clippers after a trade was finally agreed upon following an ugly ongoing stand off.
or, as one source with knowledge of the situation put it to Yahoo Sports, “the war is over”.Watch an average of 9 NBA Regular Season games per week LIVE on ESPN, available via Kayo.It was always the expectation that the Philadelphia 76ers would part ways with Harden after the All-Star guard demanded a trade in June earlier this year.
This time around the Sixers didn’t trade Harden for a star player. There wasn’t one on the market and may not be one available for some time now. Speaking on ‘NBA Today’, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski — who broke the news of the trade on Tuesday afternoon — said Morey now has a vision that he can sell Embiid.
Milwaukee, of course, traded for Damian Lillard this summer to put the superstar guard alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo while Boston added Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis to an already stacked roster headlined by Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. “That’s the reality when you have a star player of this level, when you have an in their prime MVP. It is the mandate of Daryl Morey and Elton Brand and that organisation to keep Joel Embiid engaged and believing the team can compete for a championship.”
“Because a ‘26 first-round pick, a ‘28 first-round pick, he’ll be done with his prime by then. What about this year? What about next year? “Some of the early chatter on names to watch with Philadelphia: Zach LaVine and OG Anunoby. LaVine is the kind of scorer/ball handler the Sixers could use. Anunoby is the versatile defender Philly needs against Boston/MIL in the playoffs,” wrote Mannix on X, formerly known as Twitter.that “it wouldn’t surprise me if Morey, knowing his history, has even loftier secret targets”.
Another key date to watch is December 15, when players who signed new contracts over the offseason can be traded.pointed out, it is not as if the Celtics would have been expecting Jrue Holiday to suddenly become available so a trade well before the February deadline is not out of the picture either.