Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the NBA Daily. We're going to call this a morning

shoot-around. Trade deadline primer. I'm Dave Before. I'm here with Sam Amick and Esperi. How

you guys doing this morning? Good morning, gentlemen, doing well out here on the

West Coast. We got the coffee that everybody saw in the picture there. We don't have pancakes,

but we're getting rolling here. It's too early out here for breakfast. Let's be honest. I got to wake up

a little bit before I eat. I was kind of up late last night. I don't know about you guys.

We got this James Hardin news happened during the fourth quarter of the Clippers game.

Perfect time for James Hardin to, I guess, how do we want to put this?

Did he put it out into the world through the media?

Like who leaked this stuff, Sam?

Who let us know that Hardin wants out?

Yeah, so I was watching that Clipper game.

And to pull the curtain back a little bit,

I was in touch with one of our guys who covers the Lakers in the rest of the league, Dan Wojke,

and Dan have been hearing some chatter

about a Garland, Darius Garland and Cleveland and Hardin Swap.

So like we tend to do is like, all right, let's make a few calls, checked in with a few people,

but honestly, like, I think it was like seven or ten minutes later.

A story pops from Chris Mannix at Sports Illustrated that this deal was being discussed.

Our old buddy from the athletic, Kelly Eco, at Yahoo, had something as well.

You know, Shams reported after that that Hardin and the Clippers were trying to find a new home.

It's interesting. I know we're going to unpack it, but, you know, this... that Hardin and the Clippers were trying to find a new home.

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