When James Harden was drafted third overall in the 2009 NBA Draft, he was essentially a luxury item for the recently transitioned Thunder. They already had Kevin Durant, who averaged 25.3 points per game in his second season in the league, and an emerging full-time point guard in Russell Westbrook. They had Jeff Green, who was then a much more intriguing prospect than in his current towel-covered state, and they probably didn’t even realize what they had in Serge Ibaka, who was stashed away in Europe.
Could the Mavericks pull off a James Harden-style trade?
