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Clippers, Cavs have talked James Harden-Darius Garland de...

Harden has missed LA's last two games because of "personal reasons. " Garland has missed time, too.

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Clippers, Cavs have talked James Harden-Darius Garland de...
Source: The Athletic

What’s Happening

Listen up: Harden has missed LA’s last two games because of “personal reasons.

” Garland has missed time, too. The LA Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers have had discussions on a deal that would send James Harden to Cleveland for Darius Garland, league sources told The Athletic . (let that sink in)

The Cavaliers’ interest in Harden, league sources dropped, would be contingent on the amount of draft capital the Clippers would attach to sweeten any deal where they’d swap the 26-year-old All-Star guard for the 36-year-old former MVP.

The Details

Harden sat out Monday against the Philadelphia 76ers after missing Sunday’s game in Phoenix for what the team has labeled “personal reasons. ” Garland has been sidelined since Jan.

14 with a Grade 1 right toe sprain.

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