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Coming up, I'm going to talk about the Harden trade and then Peter Schrager.

We're going to do a million dollar picks. First project.

All right, I wanted to hit the Harden trade just a little bit more. I talked to

that on my sales podcast yesterday after a broke just as many quick reactions as we possibly

could have. That trade, I don't want to say, came out of nowhere because we knew Harden was going

to get traded. But it really seemed like the Lakers game and his effort in that game and how he

looked and the vibe on the bench. It just sped everything up. It was a two horse race. It was Brooklyn

and Philly. I spent most of the day on Wednesday assuming that Philly was going to get him.

It just seemed like they had the one Trump card which has been some. It seems like they were

engaged in trade talks. With the Kyrie piece of everything about not knowing when he was going to

come back and the fact that it didn't seem like Keraslavert and Jared Allen and a bunch of picks

was going to be enough to get James Harden. It just seemed like a matter of time.

All right, Philly is going to get him. Is Max going to be in the deal? Is it just going to be

tie-bow and Harden and a bunch of picks? What's it going to be? Then the Brooklyn thing just came

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