Breaking: Garguatuan Four-Trade Deal Sends James Harden, Picks To Brooklyn Nets; Caris LeVert And Others Involved In Blockbuster Deal

The deal is done. After weeks and months of back-and-forth speculation over James Harden’s status as a Houston Rocket, the Brooklyn Nets pulled the trigger on a blockbuster deal that sends him to join forces with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

Via a four-team trade involving the likes of Indiana, Brooklyn, Cleveland, and Houston, additional acquisitions will include Caris LeVert heading to the Pacers, Victor Oladipo, Dante Exum, Rodions Kurucs, four first-round picks and four first-round pick swaps to Houston, and Jarrett Allen and Taurean Prince from Brooklyn will be sent to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers, per Wojnarowski and ESPN colleague Ramona Shelburne.

Talk about a Woj Bomb.

Following a disappointing effort in their consecutive losses to the Los Angeles Lakers at home, James Harden had offered some disjointed comments on the state of the organization, stating that the Rockets were “just not good enough, obviously, chemistry, talent-wise, just everything, and it was clear these last few games.

Frustrated, he continued: “I love this city. I’ve literally done everything that I can. I mean, this situation, it’s crazy. It’s something that I don’t think can be fixed, so, yeah, thanks.”

Things started to turn volatile when new teammates John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins publically and succinctly reprimanded the disgruntled star, dismissing his pessimism.

“When you have certain guys in the mix that don’t want to buy in all as one, it’s going to be hard to do anything special or anything good as a basketball team,” Wall told reporters following Harden’s post-game presser.

Added Cousins on Wednesday: “The disrespect started way before any interview.”

It’s been a chronological fallout between James Harden and the Houston Rockets following the disappointing Gentleman’s Sweep handed to them by the Lakers in the Orlando Bubble. Add that with their General Manager Daryl Morey departing to Philadelphia, the excessive drama between Harden and Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta, and the collapsing infrastructure of the organization involving Harden causing a PR nightmare by lying to team officials about his whereabouts, showing up to training camp out of shape, having various viral videos surface of him breaking NBA health and safety protocols by partying in Gentleman’s clubs with rapper Lil Baby in Atlanta and Las Vegas and you have a toxic situation that’s untenable for anyone to offer a quick fix for.

Harden leaves Houston as their all-time greatest player in franchise history, and with the reputation as arguably the most unguardable one-man combination of remarkable dexterity, a lightning-quick first step, yo-yo-like ball-handling skills, and expert marksmanship in the history of the Houston Rockets, he averaged 29.6 points, 7.7 assists, and six rebounds per game over eight-plus seasons with the Rockets, including three scoring titles and an assist title to add.

And now, he joins a now menacing big three of him, Kyrie and KD in the second-biggest borough in New York City.

It’s yet to be seen if the Nets are content with the moves they’ve made today and in the offseason, considering the head-scratching headlines surrounding Irving and his recent antics that involved a leave of absence caused by “personal reasons” that, subsequently, would be debunked as the Nets star was caught throwing a maskless Birthday party for his sister Asia during a pandemic.

For the time being, we have no clue if Irving will remain in a Nets uniform, play elsewhere or not play at all due to the recent occurrences, and also, we have nary a clue on the presence that Harden will have with his new team, and if the on-ball offensive role he was entitled to in Houston will carry over to a new system, now that Steve Nash will be calling the shots.

If one thing is a certainty amidst this wild turn of events – it’s that Brooklyn Hoops just got that many more eyes on them than ever before, firmly supplanting them as the highest-priced ticket in the Big Apple.

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