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Wonder who they will trade? They are going to have to trade one of their bigs, maybe two.

I thought I heard Noel, but he's been playing well recently. Who knows. Maybe they stick for a while.

As for the Cavs, the win feels good and that 21 point lead after the 3rd was nice to see.....but giving up 43 to the Nets in the 4th is insane. They shouldn't break 30 in a quarter, ever, let alone 43!

On to the Thunder, without Kanter. What a dope.

Much better passing tonight.

Them and the Bucks are redeeming the East in regards to watch ability.

Wow! This is absolutely incredible!

James Harden makes history with second 50-point triple-double of the season - CBSSports.com
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/james-...-of-the-season/

Another night, another signature game for James Harden's MVP résumé. The Rockets guard put up a 51-point, 13-rebound, 13-assist triple double in a 123-118 victory over the Sixers on Friday night. It was Harden's second 50-point triple-double of the season, making him the first player, ever, to have multiple 50-point triple-doubles in one season.

Along with Russell Westbrook's 51-point triple-double in October, that's now three 50-point triple-doubles in one season, when there hadn't been any since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1973. The MVP race this season continues to just amaze.

This wasn't an empty performance, either. The Sixers have been a good, tough team lately, and they had actually closed the gap to five in the closing minutes Friday. Harden legitimately needed that production to secure the win. These performances are meaningful. The Rockets are now 12-3 when Harden has a triple-double; the Thunder are 18-5 when Westbrook does the same.

The performance overshadowed a 32-point, seven-rebound, four-assist performance from Joel Embiid in just 28 minutes. It seems like every night is one superstar's huge game vs. another's. Harden's efficiency continues to thrive as well; he shot 16 of 28 from the field.

Every night Harden has what seems like an MVP-defining game, Westbrook answers with one of his own (Sunday at the Cavaliers should be fun). Every time it seems like Westbrook might have taken the lead back, Harden does something remarkable. It makes you wonder.... when was the last time we had an MVP race this good?

Harden and D'Antonio are a great match. They've saved each other's career

We are witnessing some historic play by Harden and Westbrook.

From my understanding he did, he even said he told griff the same thing to his face, so maybe he was just tired of the inaction, but regardless shouldn't have said anything where it could have been run with like it is, he's a petulant child..as a player love watching him, as a human being I'm not a fan. He just does things because he thinks hes untouchable, thats not what true leaders do.

The rumor was Noel, but since Embiid came out and basically said Noel was his BFF the talks have cooled, I could see it being Okafor

As they should. Okafor is unplayable with Embiid. I wish we would have tried to pull the trigger on Richaun Holmes, but he's playing up to his ability now.

Wasn't Okafor the first overall pick?

Yes, but so was Anthony Bennett. Okafor also had horrible college metrics compared to Embiid. Okafor and Embiid really hurts the team in regards to spacing or pace.

Also if Loul Deng leaves the country he might not be allowed re-entry.

Methinks you missed my point.

Probs. What was it?

He was picked 3rd btw

I think today will be a game where it finally clicks for us or we get blown out by 30 again..Kyrie "guarding" westbrook might be the scariest thing ever

Kyrie just made Westbrook check his ankles

Kevin needs to sit for 2 weeks to rest his back and reset his shot.

Our defense is just atrocious, also giving up a first for korver looks so stupid right now and it didn't look that great when it happened. Shump has done a good job on Westbrook as you can do but man I wish we had just one dude that played with his intensity. Kyrie has been balling

Westbrook wouldn't score 5 points a game if he couldn't use his off arm

This game had much better flow from the cavs, very encouraging

nice game today. a different energy and urgency IMO

You are amazing. 5 pts a game? LMAO

How many would LeBron score? Negative 8?

it was a joke...only you would take that seriously and use it to start an argument...god you're a troll and i just need to put you back on ignore..I have zero need to see your garbage

Wow............more namecalling.

Btw............what did you think of TT today? How about those blocks? Bet you loved those, eh?

Man, Green is such a jerk. Did any of you just see that play on on McCollum? Dirty as hell.

Fun game today.. DancinDawg and I went to the game!

Shumpret's D on Westbrook was awesome. Glad to see them get their rhythm back again.

wow 1 game where he actually looked like he deserved that contract..get out of here with your TT lovefest..dude is average..oh guess what..cavs still rank at the bottom of league in blocks and lead the league in points given up in the paint...but thats probably nothing to do with TT...completely ignorant is what you are...back on ignore..you are easily the worst poster on here, about 1% of your posts have any content, the rest is arguing with whoever and whatever you can about any subject, especially if its not in accordance to what you think...its a joke.

watching them try to defend kyrie with just about every player they had was even more fun, OKC is basically Westbrook and just some guys, I do like Payne though and ofcourse adams, they should have used him much more.

Just clicking.
I don't usually comment about the NBA cuz I dont care, but I gotta say
LeBron continues to be a punk, throwing teammates under the bus in public.

Sounds like you care.

Jordan McRae and Channing frye should never under any circumstances see the floor at the same time. They literally can't stop anyone

Do we just hate playing defense during the regular season? These shots that these bum ass teams are getting is ridiculous. So open

It's Barnes, he's paying us back for going cold in games 5, 6 & 7. S'ok.

No defense, no playmakers, and horrible rotations. This team has lost every single bit of mojo it had. This isn't regular season blues, we just aren't very good. TT 24 minutes 0 points and -22 +\-. How you like those number Vers, I know you do. 15 million a year. Korver with 3 points. Def worth a first round pick. So much work needs to be done before June. The teams we are losing to is just unacceptable.

He's happy.

I don't, really.

I agree. I don't think this is regular season coasting. This team came into the season with a ton of swagger and mojo and they've completely lost it. This team is just bad right now.

this is a yo-yo team jesus

I think it very well could be "regular season coasting."

The biggest problem I see is terrible transition defense. We typically have multiple players not running back on D and LeBron is the most guilty of that group. Love and Kyrie don't either.

That is an effort issue.

I am not saying they are going to repeat, but they should certainly challenge for the title again, especially if they address the backup PG position.