{"id":455952,"date":"2026-02-03T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455952\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:45:09","slug":"the-nbas-newest-big-name-trade-candidate-james-harden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455952\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA&#8217;s newest big-name trade candidate: James Harden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!cKEb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad6e11c0-620b-49a9-839c-52902fadc4e5_1100x220.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/ad6e11c0-620b-49a9-839c-52902fadc4e5_1100.png\" width=\"1100\" height=\"220\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/ad6e11c0-620b-49a9-839c-52902fadc4e5_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:105351,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/i\/186703532?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad6e11c0-620b-49a9-839c-52902fadc4e5_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A wave of curiosity swept through the NBA on Monday night about the potential for a major transaction separate from the ongoing Giannis Antetokounmpo Sweepstakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/the-giannis-antetokounmpo-trade-latest\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/7190c33f-468f-45af-91ef-7b8af528ef81_675x.jpeg\"  alt=\"The Giannis Antetokounmpo Trade Latest\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"img-OACg1c smSquare-NGbPBa pencraft pc-reset\"\/>The Giannis Antetokounmpo Trade Latest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Numerous front offices were seeking clarity on the same question: Is a James Harden trade suddenly but legitimately in playnow before Thursday\u2019s 3 PM ET deadline?<\/p>\n<p>The answer appears to be yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wave of curiosity swept through the NBA on Monday night about the potential for a major transaction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-455952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}