Amin Elhassan

We're on the NBA.

Can I outsource my argument?

Yeah, he's been on a lot of really good teams because of him.

They were good teams because of him, not because he joined a team already in progress that was good.

The Sixers were good because when they were healthy, they were good.

What happened was nobody was healthy.

Nobody was healthy, right?

And so James Harden, his last playoff run with the Sixers, he was incredible until the last game.

You know what people didn't ask about?

Joel Embiid not being so great in that series.

They don't talk about that because he's a lightning rod, Harden is.

If you look at the best teams he was on, whether it was Houston Rockets team, it was 100% because of him.

And so he's coming to this situation, and he said at his age, I would accept that if there were signs of deterioration.

He's playing great.

He's been playing great when he was with the Clippers.

He's playing great as a Cav, but now he's being asked to do less than he probably was with the Clippers or even the Sixers before that.

It's a much easier role.

Maybe that is the trick.

Tell me about the Lakers.

Oh, they're going to get swept?