award-winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike lupica mitch alb and bob ryan i am mike lupeka mlb dot com and the new y York Daily News. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

We welcome you to the Thursday morning edition of the sports reporters.

And, oh boy, did we wake up to some interesting news?

Oh, boy, oh, boy.

And it finally happened.

James Harden got his wish.

He got moved to the Brooklyn Nets for no fewer than

seven draft picks. Got down the room. Seven draft picks. And that was that nice for their future.

It's a four-team deal, guys. Four teams had to get involved in this. And, you know, once again, you can't play the players as well as a scorecard. But the nets have assembled the latest, as my mother would say, store-bought super team. And what do you think of the ingredients here?

Well, they're going to be the new fun bunch.

I can tell you that much.

Boy, what a joyful trio that is.

You've got Kevin Durant, who looks like he's being dragged through torture to answer a question

after an interview.

You've got Kyrie Irving, who half the time seems to be living on another planet and tells

everybody to shut up and watch

his art. And now you've got James Harden, who is now the poster man for a spoiled and entitled

athlete who basically lousied his way out of town this season. And all three of them are together,

and all of them want the ball. Good luck in creating a nice locker room

environment there. And by the way, all three of those guys at some point in their career have,

if not more than once, have wanted off of a team because they didn't like their role in it.

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