All right, welcome on to a post-James Harden Trade edition of Hollinger and Duncan.

Do you think this is the last time?

This is a third one, isn't it?

It is, yeah.

And I thought the second, what, if you're going to just give your power rankings just for your own personal enjoyment and intrigue of the three hardened trades

first to Brooklyn, then to Philly in 2022, and now the 2023 version to the Clippers.

Which of these sagas just did you find most utterly enthralling in your coverage?

Okay, so I'm going to say the first one, because that was that was one the more where he more where he was truly hell-bent on mailing it in, where he was just, you know, hanging out in Atlanta and staying out all night and whatever.

And, you know, that was one where it was, it was, I am definitely 100% done here and I give no Fs at all and you need to get me out of here.

And he was still good enough that he had the leverage to completely do that.

I mean, this time around it was, it was almost a little sad because he wasn't quite that guy anymore.

And so he had to kind of play his hand a little more straight, even though he still

wanted to get to get out. He couldn't just be show up and be an abject disaster because that

would impact his next contract. Yeah, for me, much like as I said, I believe in our controversial

discussion, which we failed to prepare for, of movie

sequels a few months back.

Number two, much like Empire Strikes Back was my favorite here because it really had

everything.

It had him getting pissed off at Kyrie.

It had him leaving a situation that you're like, I can't believe it would come to this point that he would ever want to leave here.

He had just been offered this crazy long contract that he didn't take.

And there was this super team aspect of it.

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