Windhorst on why Cleveland is doing the Harden deal The key here is that the Cavs are moving away from believing in the Core 4 and I think the genesis of this is because they're worried that Donovan is not going to re-sign this summer

Fischer The Cleveland Cavaliers may wind up backing out of sign-and-trade talks for Jonathan Kuminga and Peyton Watson as James Harden and his camp grow impatient awaiting his contract

Shelburne James Harden has delayed in re-signing with the Cleveland Cavaliers in order to grant them the ability to poke around Payton Watson

Marc Spears on James Harden and the Cavaliers And to James' credit they're saying that he's been patient his people has been patient and I hear that they expect aresolution to come soon for him to re-sign

Windhorst on LeBron He doesn't seem like he's going to live in Philadelphia full time seems like he's going to live at least part time in New York I don't even know how to frame it because it's really truly unbelievable

Windhorst In the last few days I dont think Philly really loved their position in the running Their big pitch was trading for Jaylen Brown but LeBron kept making it a point to reach out to the 76ers players and give them hope that they were still involved

Stein Part of the reason why the OKC Thunder traded Lu Dort to the Hawks was because they want to extend Cason Wallace this summer and they want to extend Ajay Mitchell next summer