‘Excited’ James Harden sees championship in his Cavaliers’ future
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James Harden is viewing being traded from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Cavaliers as a chance to be an NBA champion for the first time in his 16-year career. The Cavaliers around 8 p.m. Feb. 3 agreed to trade guard Darius Garland and a second-round pick to the Clippers to acquire the 36-year-old, 6-foot-5 11-time All-Star with the hope a pairing of Harden-Donovan Mitchell in the playoffs will be more successful than the Mitchell-Garland combo was the past four years. Reports that Harden asked the Clippers to trade him surfaced in recent days, but he told reporters those reports were untrue. He had a no-trade clause in his contract and had to approve a trade to the Cavaliers before it could...