{"id":697851,"date":"2021-01-13T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=697851"},"modified":"2021-01-13T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:56:40","slug":"report-rockets-determined-to-trade-james-harden-as-soon-as-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/report-rockets-determined-to-trade-james-harden-as-soon-as-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rockets Determined to Trade James Harden as Soon as Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Houston Rockets are determined to trade James Harden, potentially as soon as today, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1349438067296366592\">Marc Stein of the New York Times<\/a> reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news comes on the heels of a particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/james-harden-its-something-that-i-dont-think-can-be-fixed\/\">damning post-game press conference<\/a> on Tuesday night in which Harden said that situation in Houston could not be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two suitors floated as potential destinations for the perennial All-Star are the Brooklyn Nets and Houston Rockets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until a trade is completed, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1349433571258359809?s=20\">the Rockets intend to keep Harden away from the team<\/a>. Harden did not practice with the team today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/demarcus-cousins-the-disrespect-started-way-before\/\">DeMarcus Cousins, Stephen Silas react<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/2320908\/2021\/01\/13\/will-a-james-harden-trade-happen-soon-sources-indicate-it-could\/\">The Athletic<\/a> reports that the Nets have prepared a trade package of four first-round picks and three-pick swaps, the maximum amount of draft compensation allowable given the limiting nature of the Ted Stepien rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nets would additionally need to send out $33 million in salaries to make such a deal work. That could come in the form of one contract, Kyrie Irving&#8217;s, or a combination of rotation players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rockets themselves are said to be pursuing a trade package from Philadelphia that would involve Ben Simmons and rookie Tyrese Maxey heading to Houston (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1349436865548595206?s=20\">Stein<\/a>), although it&#8217;s worth repeating that Sixers general manager Daryl Morey has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1339730860107554816\">they have no desire to trade Simmons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1349442590496542722?s=20\">Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports<\/a> reports that Matisse Thybulle is another player the Rockets are interested in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets are determined to trade James Harden, potentially as soon as today, Marc Stein of the New York Times reports. The news comes on the heels of a particularly damning post-game press conference on Tuesday night in which Harden said that situation in Houston could not be fixed. Two suitors floated as potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":697854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,62493],"tags":[107,700],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-697851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-newswire","tag-houston-rockets","tag-james-harden"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697851"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697871,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697851\/revisions\/697871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697851"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=697851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}