fortunately, no front office has ever promised to extend harden and then refused to do so. should be an easy conversation for him to have with the front office.

Bah god, that’s Daryl Morey’s music.

Fool me once…

yeah there’s no way this is where they stand. that trade is done and they’re wondering if they can use the framework to add someone else

And they weren’t great before (although were trending better of late)

the Vibes in CLE arose in Garland after Bron.

He is still the All-Star PG nexus of those vibes. Injuries aside. how this team runs w DG vs without him are night and day, and something Old Man Harden could never replicate.

I’ll live w the occasional toe injury vs Harden’s history of choking and being a locker room vibe killer.

“The clippers offered us harden for you, we said the only way we’d do that is if they added picks and harden extended, so we turned them down”

Seems like a pretty simple conversation

As he should. He didn’t put that in the contract for the owners to send him wherever

I don’t think they can negotiate an extension till the offseason

I am curious if he can get a better deal as an FA depending on cap space.

Yeah it’s just not going to happen with these guys. 

Sad, but true. I don’t think there’s any coming back from the highs of last season to the lows of the playoffs and then inconsistency of this season with the core 4. Something probably needs to change, if for no other reason than giving the team a jolt. It’s too much of a win now situation with how expensive the team is currently.

I’ve been praying that we sell high on JA, but this is a start. Garland is unavailable and doesn’t have the kind of special talent that makes him worth the headache. I’d have rather traded Garland for the point guard of the future, but with any hypothetical Harden extension, we’d probably have a player option after year one and have the freedom to go for whoever we want in FA in a couple years

Sad both core 4 broke up prematurely (Cavs and the Scream cast)

Yeah i think theyre realistically just posturing to see if they can pick anything up from the clippers

I’m down. At this point it’s time to go all in. 

Can still turn Mobley + spare parts + picks into Giannis…

Moving out who though?

Garland would be nasty in Minnesota

With what outgoing salary? Randle? I’d rather just keep Randle

Yall are getting Harden 

God I’d take Naz for Garland straight up lol

I like that for the Wolves.

If he didn’t eventually flame out in his two playoff series with the Clippers, they would likely not be shopping him right now.

It means there isn’t a deal until there is one. 

Cavs aren’t committing to giving Harden an extension but if they do it’s done

This is the last year of Harden’s contract and he doesn’t want to go to a team if they won’t give him a new contract

gen Z has some kind of aversion to punctuation

I don’t doubt Harden wants 3-4 years. He’s been doing 2 year deals the last couple contracts so I’m sure he wants some financial security.

I read Harden isn’t eligible for an extension. One year, $40M is likely all it’d take, tacked on to his player option. 

wtf is she waiting for?!!??!?