James Harden Traded To Rockets. REACTION!!! (merged)

[rondohondo]

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA

The Rockets send Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and future draft considerations to the Thunder for Harden, sources tell Y! Sports.

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okc should have gone for a low post offensive threat instead for more perimeter players.

[LarBrd33]

Huge win for the Rockets. 

[hpantazo]

Nice deal for OKC as well if Harden really wanted max money. Getting both Martin and Lamb is a good tradeoff. Lamb will be a great 2 guard on a cheap deal for a few years. OKC now has Lamb and Perry Jones III to add to Durant, Westbrook, and Ibaka.

[Fafnir]

Huge win for the Rockets.

Agreed.

[indeedproceed]

Holy crap. Everyone but Daryl Morey a drink. And someone send Sam Presti a condolences card.

[Lucky17]

Well, that was fast.

[scaryjerry]

Thunder fail

[Lucky17]

Possible we'll see Lamb, Durant, and Jones on the floor at the same time for OKC?

[letsgoblue86]

Not sure if either team gets better.

[Moranis]

I like this for the Thunder a lot.  Helps a great deal with the depth, adds a great shooter, and a nice young player, plus future young players.

[Eddie20]

Presti's first bad move? Or will it end up being the second after Green blows up this year, and Melo develops down the line? 

[GreenEnvy]

Wow. Pretty surprising that it went down so quick. Obviously good deal for Rockets. Harden and Lin should be quite an exciting tandem.

Let's see how this works out for OKC.

I'm guessing the Lakers are high-fiving each other right now.

[wdleehi]

I went to check this on the espn trade checker, and they have already moved Martin to the Thunder.  The only player they moved.\


 



There has to be some filler right.

[CelticsFan9]

Wow.  Really digging the trade for the Thunder, but there are a few concerns:

Westbrook, Martin, Lamb, Maynor, Jackson, Sefolosha.  Who starts with Russ, and are there enough minutes?

Is Durant going to get a reliable backup anytime soon?  Lots of pressure on PJIII.

Looks like Thabeet, Orton, and Collison are the primary backup bigs now.

Overall, I expect OKC to dominate.  Martin's deadly from the outside, and Lamb will be a solid guy to put next to Westbrook in the future.

Now, for Houston:

Lin and Harden is a nice backcourt.  Really nice.

They should have tried to get OKC to take back one of their 7 PFs.

I wouldn't be too comfortable having my top three paid players as Lin, Harden, and Asik.  Doesn't seem like a strong enough core.

Overall, it's a great move in the right direction for the Rockets.

It's sad to see that Thunder core break up.  How are Westbrook and Durant going to react?  We'll see.

[hpantazo]

I went to check this on the espn trade checker, and they have already moved Martin to the Thunder.  The only player they moved.\


 



There has to be some filler right.

yep:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8562868/sources-oklahoma-city-thunder-trade-james-harden-houston-rockets

The Oklahoma City Thunder have traded James Harden, Daequan Cook, Lazar Hayward and Cole Aldrich to the Houston Rockets for Jeremy Lamb, Kevin Martin and future draft picks, a source told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard.