Harden to the Clippers, 76ers to the world
The trade, it is over
It took six nights of beautiful NBA basketball, imperfect in the eyes of the 76ers and Clippers, and our distracted attention. To do what shoulda happened five months ago. Four months ago, legally.
Sending the unhappy James Harden to the unsavory Clippers in a too-many-months-long, Daryl Morey-way, no fun. The deal was never in danger — no trades are as long as Robert Covington plays the sport — but the dangling did no service to anyone involved.