NBA free agency was about to officially begin, when — as usual — some news shook things up.
James Harden will reportedly opt into his $35.6 million deal for 2023-24, but that’s to help him get traded elsewhere. Although the rumblings about him leaving the Philadelphia 76ers were already fairly loud, this basically cements it.
And that meant NBA fans tried to put together an ideal trade package that would get him to another contender — or back to the Houston Rockets, which is just all sorts of wild. As usual, they peppered Twitter with proposals from their favorite trade machine site, which we’ve collected below: