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Philadelphia 76ers trade James Harden to Los Angeles Clippers
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Date:2025-04-15 12:52:10
The Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday traded one-time MVP James Harden to the Los Angeles Clippers in a deal that includes players and draft picks, a person with knowledge of the deal confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.
The person requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly until the trade is official.
In the overnight deal, the Sixers sent the unhappy Harden to the Clippers along with P.J. Tucker and Filip Petrusev and received Marcus Morris, Nicolas Batum, Robert Covington, Kenyon Martin Jr., a 2028 unprotected first-round draft pick and two second-round picks and rights to swap first-round picks in 2029. Oklahoma City is also involved, and the Thunder will receive a 2027 first-round pick from the Clippers, and the Sixers will receive a 2026 first-round pick from the Thunder.
The Clippers will be Harden’s fourth team in four seasons. The seven-time All-NBA guard spent about a season and a half and played in just 79 regular-season games with the Sixers before asking the team to trade him in the offseason. Harden also wanted out of Houston and Brooklyn, which acquired him from the Rockets and then traded him to the Sixers when the Harden-Kyrie Irving-Kevin Durant union failed.
Harden joins up with Russell Westbrook for a third stint — first with Oklahoma City then with Houston and now the Clippers, who are trying to capitalize on a championship window with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.The Clippers lose some depth in the deal, but they did not part with Terance Mann or Norman Powell. Tucker adds another layer of championship experience.
Harden asked the Sixers to trade him in the offseason, and the Sixers seemed amendable to finding a new team for Harden, who opted into the final year of his contract for the 2023-24 season $35.6 million. However, as summer progressed, Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey did not find a deal that worked.
Frustrated that the Sixers hadn’t traded him by mid-August, Harden called Morey a liar and indicated he would not play for a franchise that included Morey. The NBA conducted an investigation and fined Harden $100,000 for “public comments on August 14 and 17 indicating that he would not perform the services called for under his player contract unless traded to another team.”
It has been a bumpy few seasons for Harden, who won the MVP award in 2017-18 but hasn’t made an All-NBA team since 2019-20 and failed to make the All-Star Game last season for the first time since 2013.
He can still post fantastic stats, averaging 21 points, a league-best 10.7 assists and 6.1 rebounds last season and his shooting percentages from the field and 3-pointers were better in 2022-23 than they were in 2021-22.
At 34 years old with his very best days behind, what can Harden offer in the playoffs? In last season’s playoffs, he had two 40-point games, but in the final two games of a seven-game series loss to Boston, Harden shot 7-for-27 from the field. The Sixers lost both games.
ESPN was the first to report the trade.
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