J. Kyle Mann

Yeah, I get it from the Cavs point of view.

I also think that there's a world in which Harden unlocks perhaps some of the step backs that Evan Mobley has been dealing with this season.

He's just the pick and roll master.

Can he learn from him for a year or two?

And all of a sudden he's on a different level to himself.

The added learning step backs.

But I often find at the deadline, the teams that take advantage of another team's desperation are the ones that ultimately win in the long run.

I do think we'll talk about the bowls later, but I do think getting Jaden Ivy at his lowest value is actually a good piece of business.

I couldn't like really stand for the rest of the business that the polls did this deadline, but basically the Clippers were willing to blow up their season and

and fork over a particularly juicy pick to the Thunder in order to get Garland in-house.

And if I'm the Cavs or anyone else in the league, I'm like, that's a bad sign.

Because I do think if you wait out the injuries, you figure that out, you have another decade run of this guy.

And so I'm still high on Garland.

But do you?

I hear what all you guys are saying.

And I also think he's the type of player who the larger you get into the playoffs, the more concerned you are about the size problems.

Having said that, I just don't see another pathway for the Clippers to get anything approximating a player like him at his age.

And so in terms of opportunity costs, I totally understand it for them because resetting was going to be difficult no matter what

was going to happen.

We'll see what happens with Kawhi now.