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Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
How dumb was OKC to trade Harden?

Even at the time, it was clear he was destined for stardom.

What a bedshit that was.
I THINK (and gut or anybody else who remembers that far back can correct me) they had to jettison one of their big 3 at the time because they wouldn't have been able to fit them under the cap...don't think it was known at that time that the cap was going to balloon to some obscene number where they coulda legitimately kept all 3 guys...

so then it would become a question between harden/westbrook...you could go either way on that one, id probably lean towards getting rid of russ...but at that point I don't think anybody expected harden to become THIS good...
Close, they felt they couldn't keep their big 4 together....problem being the 4th was Ibaka. They basically chose Ibaka over Harden. Whoops.

Ironically, then later they trade Ibaka to Orlando for Oladipo....who was ignored and under-utilized in OKC. Then Oladipo flipped in a package to get what could be only one year of PG-13. Continous fail by OKC.