All right, what's up? It's Real GM Radio. Excited for today's show. I'm going to be joined by

Ty Windish here in a second to talk about all the latest on Janus and his potential exit

from Milwaukee. Then we have some mailback questions to get to, but first, an opening rant on James

Harden.

Well, apparently James Hardin wants to get traded again.

It was reported late last night that James Hardin and the Clippers are.

And this is the language that was used by Shams and Ramona Shelburne in their report.

Quote, working through whether the sides can find a deal by Thursday's NBA trade deadline, end quote.

All right, call it whatever you want.

This is James Harden asking for a trade.

And we know this because you could look at the reactions from Kauai Leonard and Tai Lu last

night to the news.

And they were maybe not shocked or surprised by this.

They obviously knew about it before the media or the reporters were asking about it. But they certainly were not psyched about it, right? Kauai talking about, you know, that's my brother. I'll always root for him. But, you know, we're a team here. We're going to try to take care of us first. Tyloo saying saying how he loves James Hardin and wishes that basically

like who wouldn't want James Hardin on their team. I have some ideas about that. But look,

this is this is James Harden doing James Hardin things again. And what's interesting about this

in particular is it doesn't really feel like we saw this one coming. All right? This is maybe of all

the James Hardin trade sagas, the start of all the James Harder trade sagas, at least, the most surprising start to a James Hardin trade saga.

So, okay, why is James Hardin asking for a trade?

Well, this reporting coming from Jake Fisher over at the Steinline says he says quote it's all about a

contract extension according to one source briefed on the situation here's more from Fisher he writes

Hardin signed a two year pact in the offseason worth nearly 82 million dollars but the clippers

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