I think this needs it's own thread. Here's my trade: CJ, Ant, and Collins for Harden Anytime you can acquire an All NBA, former MVP and future HOF player, I say you go for it.
That's a yes for me. Likely unprotect that 2021 pick we sent them, and add in another and/or swaps here and there as well.
I think they could get much better offers than that. You said it, a future HOF for a star, a perpetually injured defender, and a deer in the headlights SG.
Houston will get better offers. I wouldn't make any Harden trade. Harden has all the shortfalls of a DameCJ pairing; ball dominant, don't enhance each others strengths, poor defense. Harden makes much more sense on a team with a wing or big such as Philly (either Simmons or Embiid) Milwaukee, Miami, Boston, etc. The amount of talent the Blazers would have to give up takes away key role players needed to make a DameHarden team a contender. Those role players with DameCJ have a better chance to contend. Not to mention the salary cap, as overpaid as CJ is your talking about $20million+ more per season, so potentially two players earning over $50 million. Thats not going to work in one teams back court. Heck we might even explore trading CJ in a year or two in large part because of his salary.
The absolute LAST player Portland needs is James Fucking Harden. A one dimensional, me first head case who never saw a defensive possession he couldn’t ignore. The guy couldn’t succeed with a shitload of talent constantly surrounding him, so why should we destroy our foreseeable future by bringing in the most selfish player in the NBA??? That would be like shoving a hot poker in Dame’s eye. We have a FAR better chance of going all the way without Harden than we would with him. Stick to coaching HS basketball Norm......
Can't stand Harden. But i'd look the other way at all the bullshit he's causing if he was a good basketball fit with Dame. He's not. And I hate watching him play. No thank you.
There are far too many strip clubs in Portland to keep James Harden from being a covid swamp....I don't want this guy anywhere near Portland...he's been paired with great players and chokes in the playoffs ...people think we have playoff problems ....wait till you put Harden out there...once he gets his scoring title, he doesn't give a fuck anymore
Dude is a "ME GUY". All about himself. From day 1 , he'd be trying to leave. Blazers have chemistry. No Thanks
That would be my guess. Is he awol right now because he wants out of Houston? If true I would stay away from him. I bet he ends up in Brooklyn. They have some good young talent with enough salary to make it work.
I don't know if it's in the trade idea thread or just another thread but this has already been discussed. As I said before if we could get Harden for that, I would then flip him for something that fit on this team. I do believe that Houston will get more than that for him if he's adamant about leaving. If we could do that though, I would in a second and then flip him for something that fit this team better. Yeah, he's better than CJ in every way but he's still not a plus defender, he's still way too ball dominant to maximize his or Dame's effectiveness next to each other on offense and I hate his attitude. @WesleyMatthews Harden makes $12 million more than CJ and that would actually put us at around $73 million for our starting back court, I agree that is way too much.
I would do this: CJ, Simons, Little, Trent Jr, Collins, 3 1st round picks for Harden, Tucker Harden is one of the great players of all time. If CP3/Harden can get a 3-2 lead in WCF against Dynasty Warriors, then Dame/Harden can go further. I love CJ, but this is a title team: Dame/Harden Harden/Hood PJ Tucker/Jones Jr Covington/Melo Nurkic/Kanter
Harden didn't work with Dwight Howard. Harden didn't work with Melo. Harden didn't work with Chris Paul. Harden didn't work with Westbrook. Why does anyone think Harden would work with Dame?
