Welcome into a special edition of the WogePod here with ESPN's front office insider

Bobby Marks, ironically, the former assistant general manager of the Brooklyn Nets.

On a day that Brooklyn has made a blockbuster, to say the least a blockbuster

deal to acquire James Hardin and a four-team deal, including Cleveland and Indiana,

will get into all the pieces. But I imagine some flashbacks, Bobby, for you. In some ways, it is comparable to the deal that you were a part of in Brooklyn,

or you're on the staff of anyway.

In other ways, very different.

The Nets are getting not by the last week's performance,

but a all-NBA player, a player who's been in the MVP

conversation, been the MVP and been a perennial candidate in James Hardin to join Kevin

Durant and Kyrie Irving, whenever Kyrie Irving comes back, just your initial thought, I think,

you know, both of us do, this was coming

down the wire with the Sixers with Brooklyn. How do you see this one? Well, I mean, my initial

thought is, yes, you gave up the unprotected ones in the future, along with pick swaps.

You know, it's, as you said, similar to what we did in Brooklyn.

The difference was we didn't have Kevin Durant and we didn't have Kyrie Irving.

And no offense to Paul Pearson and Kevin Garnett, he's not James Harden.

They're not James Harden.

And they were much, much later in their careers.

And then the other thing too, who is that, you know, the big three, I guess now that we call them,

they're all in their contract for at a minimum two years. They've had a player option for the third year.

And they're in the prime of their career. And you still have, you still have Joe Harris,

...