Clippers Trade Former MVP James Harden to Cavs

And now in more sports news we're joined by NTD's Dave Martin. Dave we've got some Olympic news and more Super Bowl news but let's start in the NBA as the LA Clippers have reportedly traded 11-time all-star James Harden to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Why would they want to trade Harden at this juncture? Well in short because he still brings a good return at age 36 you know I mean like you said they have not confirmed this trade yet ESPN did report it but it does make sense for the Clippers you know even though they have played much better the last six weeks I mean they've won 17 of their last 22 games it's not like they're a title contender right now they're still ninth place in the West. Harden meanwhile he's having a tremendous season his 25 points per game that's 16th best in the league meanwhile his eight assists are third best in the league so he goes to Cleveland. Cleveland is in the playoff race they are tied for fourth in the Eastern Conference with a 30 and 21 record. Now the Clippers also get much younger with this trade they get two-time all-star guard Darius Garland who is 10 years younger than Harden plus they get a future second round pick. Now Garden is 12th in the league in assists per game so the Cavs meanwhile they can probably get a jump start with this trade I mean I mentioned they're 30 and 21 last year though they've only lost 18 games the entire season so I'm interested to see how much of an impact Harden going to Cleveland makes on them. So down the road Tiff I will be reporting on how much of an impact this is. Stay tuned. While staying in the NBA the Dallas Mavericks have also reportedly traded a big star Anthony Davis. Now Davis goes to Washington in a multi-player deal this happens just over a year after he was traded for Luka Doncic. Yes unfortunately for the Mavs that Doncic trade did not work out well for Dallas though it's not that Anthony Davis didn't perform well it was just that you know he and teammate Kyrie Irving both got injured soon after that trade. Davis has actually had multiple injuries since then in fact he just he's only played 29 of a possible 82 games in his tenure for Dallas. Now this this season meanwhile he has not played since January 8th with a hand injury. Irving meanwhile he tore his ACL last March he still has not returned from that. So the Mavericks though is the in this trade they get three-time all-star Chris Middleton plus two future first round picks and three future second round picks plus three more players from Washington for Davis plus three more players included there for Dallas so it's big trade there eight players in all trade reported by ESPN. So the Wizards now they also recently traded for guard Trey Young who's also injured right now so the Wizards right now their best players are on the shelf they are not in playoff contention this year. I'm really not sure what their purpose is maybe they wanted to get better next year when you know Young and Davis are both healthy but that'll be another thing I'll report on down the line it might be next November but down the line. All right you heard it here looking at Olympic news though yesterday we reported on women's downhill skier Lindsey Vonn she's planning to compete despite a ruptured ACL injury what is the latest on that? Well she actually caught a break today at least according to her coach when the Olympic organizers had to cancel the downhill training session for tomorrow becomes some seven inches of snow has fallen on the mountain there now her coach previously said she could use more time for her own recovery from the ACL injury but there's still training sessions scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Now some fellow Olympic skiers were actually asked about trying to ski with a torn ACL like Lindsey Vonn has let's actually listen to their responses. It is entirely possible to ski moguls without an ACL I actually tore mine last December and multiple events without it it's like Liz said it all really depends on how severe it is and if your quads firing and if you have strength and stability in your knee it's entirely possible to be done you know it is very painful but you know us athletes will do whatever it takes. I think it all depends on the magnitude of the injury I've read a few things about Lindsey's injury she has torn her ACL fully she has a few meniscus issues as well I think it's entirely possible for her to perform because like as long as your quad is like firing correctly you can still move your knee in the way that you want it to it's just an ACL it'll it just stabilizes your knee a bit better so as long as Lindsey is able to fire her quad and move it in the way that she wants to I think she still has a lot of potential. It sounds like as long as her quad is firing it's okay I don't know about you Tiff but my quads maybe this is why I'm not a skier my quads they don't seem to fire you know do yours I mean maybe that's some ski thing but my quads they don't fire that's that's probably why I'm not an Olympian so I like what the guy said there though at the end though like you know skiers athletes they're willing to do this thing you know kudos to them kudos to them it's a lot of pain that you I can't imagine trying to ski on a torn ACL or do too much of anything on a torn ACL. By the way I didn't want to mention the Olympics actually kicked off today with the first curling matches though the opening ceremony will be on Friday all right so buckle up all right well speaking of big games let's talk about the Super Bowl we've shown a number of sneak peeks at some of the commercials what do you have today we've got a pretty funny one of course I thought all of these were funny maybe maybe you haven't thought that this is one for Pringles now unlike some of the other Super Bowl ads the Pringles product actually fits prominently into this funny ad here let's take a look. I'm so tired of boys I need a man and Galileo. Once you pop, the pop don't stop. So that was pop singer Sabrina Carpenter in that Pringles ad pretty funny huh well we'll see what else you have tomorrow but Dave as always thanks for joining us thank you too