James Harden’s rumors could ‘wreck havoc’ on both nets and six: Jalen Rose

As long as James Harden ‘s trade rumors hang over the NBA, they have the potential to destroy the lockers of both the Nets and the 76ers, ESPN analyst Jalen Rose says.

Even though he is in training camp with Houston and still has to pay $ 132 million over the next two years, it is reported that Harden still wants to trade and has been connected to both Brooklyn and Philadelphia.

“As long as the profitability of Harden’s trade hangs over the Nets and the Sixers, I think he has the opportunity to destroy both of those lockers and make one or both of those teams fail. reach their goals, ”Rose told ESPN on Saturday.

“They’re going to win a lot of regular-season games, these two teams might win a playoff round or two, but we saw this a year or two ago with the Lakers and the Pelicans. Those two teams never met expectations because everyone knew Anthony Davis was going to end up with the Lakers. So if you’re one of those teams and you’re really trying to get James Harden, you have to pull the trigger or you’re going to throw a garbage parity Guy like Caris LeVert built in the bubble, and Spencer Dinwiddie, this great play that these people showed you that they have a promise, but they won’t be able to reach it knowing they took a team photo and maybe that they wouldn’t even in another week. “

JSP Williams at ESPN agreed: “It just makes me wonder what he will do for the 76ers locker room with Ben Simmons there? What’s going to happen to KD and Kyrie? They don’t seem to be close right now, like [Adrian Wojnarowski] reported earlier. The Nets seem to want more as a reward for a big-time player and the same with the Houston Rockets, the same as the 76errs. I think we’ll see James Harden with the Rockets for a month or so until they find the right trading partner. ”

Regarding the Sixers, former GMs president Daryl Morey said, “We do not trade Ben Simmons – it is an important part of our future. “

For their part, the Nets have “competitive ambitions,” as Joe Harris said Sunday on Zoom’s call and are playing up the advanced chemistry in their locker room while minimizing the impact. Harden.

“I don’t think about James Harden at all,” Durant said earlier this month. “I mean, he won’t play for our team.”

LeVert, meanwhile, said he is open to being the Sixth Man off the bench and introducing the second unit despite his star turn in the Orlando bubble when Durant and Irving and many of his players in attendance.

Even Irving has been nice to the media after his temporary media boy, and was also happy to shoot a sage on the court at Boston Garden before Friday’s preseason game.

Now that Durant is back and has looked elegant in two preseason games after recovering from Achilles surgery, head coach Steve Nash said his star is 90-99 percent healthy.

“This is hard for me to number,” Nash said. “It’s very sad. But it’s in the 90s, for sure. Whether it’s 90 or 99, I don’t know. But I will keep trying to tell him that he needs to give himself 15, 20 games before he starts judging himself. At times, they say that the time you take off gives you a lot of time once you are back feeling like yourself.

“He has everything we could ask for, but there is no way to end what he is, for whom it hurts not to play NBA games . You cannot recreate it, you may not duplicate it, or you may not replace it. So he’s going to go through this process, play some games, and before long – if we’re lucky enough with his health and all that he put in – Kevin Durant will be 100 percent, no question. ”

The Nets are tied for their third-favorite NBA title win after the Lakers and Bucks. They open the season Tuesday night at home against the Warriors, Durant’s former team, as well as a team for which Steve Nash worked as a consultant.

“For Kevin and I to connect with the Warriors, I think we’re excited for that too,” Nash said Sunday. “We love these people a lot, and we’re excited for them to come to town.”

Meanwhile, Wojnarowski said even though the Nets don’t come to Harden, they could still be in the mix for a longtime downhill player to create a “Big Three” with Irving and Durant.

“They may have funding for the next big star available [Washington’s] Bradley Beal in a year, ”he told ESPN.