on NFL live reporting breaking news.

This coming from Adrian Wurgenowski, reporting with Ramona Shelburne,

that the Brooklyn Nets have acquired Houston's James Hardin in a blockbuster deal.

The Nets get another all-NBA player in his prime, getting Hardin KD together and Kyrie Irving,

depending on what happens there.

You know an NBA trade is big when NFL live stops their coverage to report it.

And yesterday's Blockbuster was also a soap opera with James Hardin heading to the Brooklyn Nets,

joining Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving,

and shaking up the entire sport. Today, one of the reporters who broke the story, Ramona Shelburne,

takes us inside a deal that felt like it might never happen. And she details what comes next.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Thursday, January 14th.

This is ESPN Daily.

Ramona, I've been waiting to talk to you all day.

Is there a word, just a single word that you would use to describe what your day of breaking this James Harden trade was like?

A word, just one word. I would just say madness.

Ramona Shelburne is an NBA insider for ESPN. She's been covering the league for almost two decades.

There's always this like moment of truth. for ESPN. She's been covering the league for almost two decades.

There's always this like moment of truth when a trade comes to be.

Woj and I had been working on this for weeks. Obviously, everybody involved,

I've been working for weeks. And then there's that moment when it gets right down to it. And it's the same for everybody on all sides, the people

covering it, the people involved, the teams involved saying yes or no. And, you know, it always

takes longer. So if they tell you, I think we should have something in the next few minutes,

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