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The Bill Simmons Podcast

The 2026 NBA Trade Value List. Plus, Harden, JJJ, and Giannis Trade News With Joe House

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 122 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to discuss some trade news around the NBA before breaking down his 2026 NBA trade value list (0:34). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Joe House Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Chris Wohlers Order ALDI on Uber Eats: https://earn.sng.link/A99vk/i2fm/okid The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The All right.

0:29.6

All right, live on Netflix, I can't speak.

0:36.8

Live on Netflix, Bill Sivitz here with Joe House.

0:39.6

We are going to do our annual NBA Trade Value List podcast that we have been doing,

0:45.0

the first one house, December 2007, the first year out of podcast on the worldwide leader.

0:51.7

And in that trade value list, I think we ranked Carlos Boozer above Dirk

0:57.0

Newitzky. And now, 19 years later, Carlos Booser's son, now about to be a top three pick in the NBA draft.

1:06.0

It all comes around. And now we're on Netflix, a place that was mailing out DVDs to customers in 2007.

1:13.5

And now we're doing a live podcast for Netflix and Spotify. Spotify existed in 2007.

1:20.5

But look at this. We're just moving with the Times. This is great. I will explain the trade

1:24.9

value concept to everybody in a second. But we got to talk about James Hardin first. Yeah. James Hardin. News of the day. We always get everybody's like, it's going to be a slow trade done. And then all of a sudden, Saturday or Sunday, whatever day that was during the weekend, it was like, James Harden and not playing tonight, personal reasons, prethences. It was like, uh-oh, personal reasons. What does this mean like uh oh personal reasons what does this mean are we are we

1:47.5

about to do the dance with james hard again then it leaks out chris manix reports yesterday

1:51.8

there is a james hard and darius garland trade that's far down the road and might happen might not

1:58.5

now as we're recording this Tuesday, 10.30 PTA.m.

2:04.1

Feels like this trade is happening.

2:06.0

What was your reaction when you heard that this trade was even a one-for-one possibility

2:09.6

as we're working on the trade value list?

2:12.5

Made sense.

2:13.7

To be honest, I got to see Cleveland this year up close and personal, went to a wizard's game, and Darius Garland played, which was great, you know, got to see him.

2:28.3

I will tell you, you're the expert at the body language and all of the, you know, you have your PhD in analyzing team chemistry.

2:38.4

Yes.

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